During this skirmish, Medinan dissidents, begrudging Muhammad's influence, attempted to attack him in the more sensitive areas of his life, including his marriage to Zaynab bint Jahsh, and an incident in which Aisha left her camp to search her lost necklace, and returned with a Companion of Muhammad.

The prisoners were next sent to the court of Yazid, Umayyad caliph, in Damascus, where one of his Syrian followers asked for Husayn's daughter Faṭimah al-Kubra, and once again it was Zaynab who came to the rescue and protected her honour.

Maha barricaded the door, while the 15-year old Zaynab took her father's rifle and held it over her head screaming.

Following the Invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, Maha, Abdulkareem, Maryam, Zaynab and her daughter Safia joined a convoy leaving Kabul traveling towards Gardez, but discovered that their intended residence had been bombed.

Since Zaynab was the wife of Muhammad's adopted son, pre-Islamic practices frowned upon such her marriage with the prophet.

Zaynab had initially refused to marry Zaid because of his slave background and the same displeasure had come from her brother, ' Abdullah bin Jahsh.

The marriage was a failure as Zaynab found it extremely difficult to accept a freed slave as her husband.

Zayd got tired of her and the bitterness had left him with no desire for her eventually leading to their divorce. Zaynab being Muhammad's first cousin was no stranger for him, he had seen her hundreds of time in his aunt Umaima bint Abdul Muttalib's house for over thirty years before she became Zayd's wife.

Zaynab bint Khuzayma, the previous wife of Muhammad who had died earlier, was her half-sister.

As for Zaynab, however, she became ill and died eight months after her marriage.

Zaynab disapproved of the marriage and her brothers rejected it, because according to Ibn Sa'd, she was of aristocratic lineage and Zayd was a former slave and the adopted son of Muhammad.

Zaynab told Zayd about this, and Zayd offered to divorce her, but Muhammad told him to keep her.

As was common among the Sanhaja tribes before extended military campaigns, Abu Bakr divorced Zaynab before he left, advising her to marry Yusuf if she needed protection.

* Zaynab bint Ali married her cousin Abdullah ibn Ja ' far ibn Abi Talib, and bore four sons and a daughter:

In 2002, Zaynab took Abdulkareem to Lahore where her two-year old daughter needed medical attention.

The 12-year old Zaynab with her brother Abdulkareem in arms.

When police arrived to arrest her father on suspicion of involvement eight days later, Zaynab took her father's rifle and held it over her head screaming, while her mother barricaded the door.

Following the 1992 injury that left Ahmed disabled, Zaynab became a " second mother " to the younger children.

The following year, Zaynab and her mother returned to Canada for several months late in her pregnancy, and gave birth to a daughter, named Safia.

In 2003, Zaynab, her daughter and her mother stayed at a house in Birmal, Pakistan for two days, before their hosts grew wary of American jets overhead, and they moved further into the mountains of Waziristan.

Zaynab filming Human Rights Watch | HRW proceedings in 2007. Zaynab, flanked by her grandfather and daughter in Toronto. Zaynab lived in a rented apartment with her daughter and younger sister in Islamabad, Pakistan, and although her passport was revoked by the Canadian High Commission in Pakistan, she returned to Canada on February 17, 2005 to be with her mother, and help the legal defence teams of her brothers Abdullah Khadr and Omar Khadr.

Zaynab and her mother are both on passport " control " lists, meaning they will no longer be issued Canadian passports due to the frequency with which they reported losing their passports since 1999.

Ali also felt a great affection for his daughter and son-in-law and when he became caliph and moved the capital from Medina to Kufa, Zaynab and Abdullah joined him.

Over the course of the book, she also goes by the names Zubaydah and Zaynab, as well as impersonating an angel and is eventually revealed to be Cinderella's fairy godmother.

Ahmed agreed to bring his family on a long vacation culminating in the city for a farewell to the reluctant Zaynab as she started a new life with Abdullah.

After receiving written reassurance from Zaynab that she would not seek any form of restitution, he agreed to a formal divorce.

When she returned to Canada, security officials, including Konrad Shourie, met her at the airport bearing a search warrant stating that " Zaynab Khadr has willingly participated and contributed both directly and indirectly towards enhancing the ability of Al Qaeda ", and seized her laptop, DVDs, audiocassettes, diary and other files.

Zaynab offered the defence that she had purchased the computer second-hand seven months before her trip.

Khadr at Parliament Hill handing out badges reading " OMAR " to passersby in 2008. In 2004, Zaynab appeared in a documentary entitled Son of al Qaeda, during which she made the following comment concerning the September 11th attacks ;

In October 2008, Zaynab began an 18-day hunger strike on Parliament Hill where she hoped to draw attention to the government's inaction on bringing her brother back to face trial in Canada.

When Zaynab came of age, she was married to her cousin Abdullah ibn Ja ' far, a nephew of Ali, in a simple ceremony.

Although Zaynab bint Ali's husband was a man of means, she lived a modest life, not a life of luxury.

The first modern Egyptian novel Zaynab by Muhammad Husayn Haykal was published in 1913 in the Egyptian vernacular.

His daughter Zaynab — who was in Karbala — was captured by Yazid's army and later played a great role in revealing what happened to Husayn and his followers.

This trend was furthered by Jurji Zaydan ( author of many historical novels ), Khalil Gibran, Mikha ' il Na ' ima and Muhammad Husayn Haykal ( author of Zaynab ).

The first modern Egyptian novel to be written in the vernacular was Muhammad Husayn Haykal's Zaynab in 1913.

Maha ( Abdulkareem in arms ), Omar Khadr | Omar, Zaynab, Abdurahman ( facing camera ) and Maryam ( foreground ) in an Islamabad hotelroom while Ahmed was in prison.

Born in 595, Zaynab bint Khuzayma (, Umm al-Masakin, Mother of the Poor ) was the fifth wife of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

Zaynab bint Jahsh (, born c. 593 ) was a wife of Muhammad and therefore a Mother of the Believers.

When Qur ' an was revealed, Zaynab acquiesced and married Zayd in the year 626.

Zaynab was Muhammad's first cousin, daughter of his aunt Umaima bint Abdul Muttalib.

Zaynab bint Khuzayma was also widowed at the battle of Badr.

Zaynab bint Jahsh was Muhammad's cousin, being the daughter of one of his father's sisters.

Watt however states that it is not clear why Zaynab was unwilling to marry Zayd as Zayd was held in a high place in Muhammad's esteem.

According to Maududi, the Qur ' anic verse was revealed, thus Zaynab acquiesced and married Zayd.

" Muhammad's decision to marry Zaynab was an attempt to break the hold of pre-Islamic ideas over men's conduct in society.

Initially, however, he was reluctant to marry Zaynab, fearing public opinion.

The entire Surah was revealed to Prophet Muhammad to expose A ' isha's and Hafsa's conspiracy against Zaynab bint Jahsh and the Prophet.