Question
asalam-o-alakkum,
I have a very important question. There is an Arab lady named sultan and I have seen her videos on www.youtube.com. She has God forbid accused Prophet Muhammad (sws) that Prophet Muhammad (sws) mercilessly killed Asmā Bint Marwān and his followers tore her body apart limb by limb when she was breastfeeding her baby. I don’t know from which source she got this information, I just wanted to know that was there any lady in the history of Islam by the name “Asmā Bint Marwān” and is there any information regarding her being killed by Prophet Muḥammad (sws)? Please throw some light on this issue.
Regards,
Answer
The story of Asmā bint Marwān has been narrated in a few Islamic sources, including Musnad Al-Shihāb, Tāriīh Al-Baghdād, Al-Ṭabaqāt Al-Kubrā.
Some of these sources do not provide any chains of narrators, those that include chain of narrators have all reported Muhammad ibn Al-Hajjāj Al-Lakhami as one of the narrators.
We read in Dhu‘afā wa Matrūkīn of Ibn Jawzī that a number of scholars of the science of Rijāl (narrators) considered ibn Al-Hujjāj to be a liar, untrustworthy and one who used to fabricate aḥādīth.
In many of these chains of narrators, the one who is narrating from ibn Al-Hujjaj is Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn al-Ala al-Shami. He too is considered to be a liar in the books of Rijal.
Accordingly the report cannot be trusted and cannot be considered to be true.
Regards,
Answered by: Farhad Shafti
Date: 2015-04-02
