Dear Sister,
Peace to you.
Stories can potentially be made to fit any scenario post an event.
It is more pertinent in my humble view to question how representative these ‘stories’ are of what really happened. To provide context, these historical reports are not contemporaneous to the events they attempt to narrate, but are often centuries removed.
Stories often suffer from ‘accretion’ in the hands of story tellers and scholarship in this area has long recognised that much spurious reports had often snowballed for a number of reasons including, political, theological and others.
This is not to say however that some reports didn’t have a central core of truth, but as one knows with any narrative of an event, two people at one incident can see the matter very differently from their perspectives.
However, it is my humble view that the Quranic advice is succinct in this area which makes mute the need for a scrutiny of such historical reports from a Quranic perspective.
034.025
"Say: You WILL NOT be asked of OUR crimes, nor shall we be asked of what YOU do."
One ponders, if this was the statement given to the contemporaries of the Prophet, how pertinent would this advice be for successive generations?
The general sentiment indicating a deterrence against assessing the actions of a people of the past is powerfully narrated in yet another Quranic verse.
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"Those are a people who have passed away. Theirs is that which THEY earned, and yours is that which YOU earn. And you WILL NOT be asked of what they used to do"
I hope that helps, God willing.
Joseph.