This story makes Muhammad appear as someone who refuses...

This story makes Muhammad appear as someone who refuses to

practice what he preaches, or does not accept to apply the Islamic law

to himself and those related to him while requesting others to abide by

them. Because he deems it lawful for others to marry more than one

wife, but refuses this law when it comes to his daughter... This indeed

is a disastrous fabrication against the Prophet that the enemies of

Islam were able to insert in the pages of our history books, depending

on unscruent narrators who report such stories without reflecting upon

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The story also defames Ali (A) by showing him as someone who

angered both Fatima (A) and her father and defames Fatima for

refusing to practice Allah's commands, which He revealed to her

I shall not verify the discredibility of the authority on which the narration

was based, for it-within itself-proves its own discredibility. Yet, it is

inevitable to ask: Why have the narrators, who fabricated this story,

insisted on saying that he (A) wanted to marry Abu Jahl's daughter,

and not any other woman?! How come they did not claim that Ali (A)

attempted to marry another woman? Surely, Abu Jahl's daughter did

more effective; for in their story, Ali (A) specifically chose the daughter

praised themselves while discrediting Muhammad, his daughter, and

his cousin. They claimed in the same story that he mentioned his other

son-in-law, who is a young man from Bani Abd Shams, and praised

him as "a noble son-in- law"; they claim that the Prophet said: "He, the

young man from Bani Abd Shams was truthful in his speech and

They want us to believe that the Prophet praised his Umayyad son-in-

law (the Umayyad’s belong to the tribe of Bani Abd Shams), which in

turn means that he was trying to discredit his first son-in-law [Ali

(A)] who, according to the story, lied to the Prophet and violated his

the actual people who angered Fatima, and put Ali (A) under the