Critique of Quranic citations of historical events of the beginning of Islam in the history of Tabari (Case study: Investigating the claim of Muhammad's (pbuh) secret love for Zainab and referring to verse 37 of Surah Ahzab)

Muslim historiography initially had many links to Qur'anic verses, with the historian trying to use Qur'anic verses as confirmation in the reporting of historical events. Tabari is one of the historians who, while reporting historical events, has documented them with Quranic verses. The purpose of this descriptive-analytical study is to address the main issue of how accurate the citation of verses in the report of historical events in the history of Tabari has been? Studies show that Tabari has cited verses in order to confirm and strengthen historical reports. But in some cases, it has suffered injuries. Among them is verse 37 of Surah Al-Ahzab, which refers to the story of Zayd's separation from Zainab bint Jahsh and then the marriage of the Prophet (PBUH) with her. By quoting fabricated narrationsTabari considered the main reason for the separation of Zayd and Zainab as the love and affection of the Prophet (PBUH) for Zainab and made a love story by incorrectly understanding some of the expressions in the mentioned verse and quoting it and in the order to confirming it. these negligence’s Can be attributed to his superficial understanding of the verses and their lack of analysis, which is specifically mentioned in this study.