A Fabricated Narration Ibn Kuthayr mentioned a fabricated...

A Fabricated Narration Ibn Kuthayr mentioned a fabricated report when he said that Imam Zayn al-‘Abidin married his mother to one of his retainers, and he freed a slave girl and married her, so ‘Abd al-Malik wrote a letter to him and blamed him in it, saying: “Certainly you have in the Apostle of Allah an excellent exemplar for him who hopes in Allah and the latter day and remembers Allah much. He (Imam Zayn al-‘Abidin) freed Safiya and married her, and he married his retainer, Zayd b.

Haritha to his cousin, Zaynab, daughter of Jahsh.[^6]” This narration is fabricated from the beginning to end for the following reasons: A great number of the…