Is the story mentioned in the book "Wives of the Prophet" accurate, which claims that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, heard from Christian scriptures and the stories of Thamud before his prophethood, and is it actually present in "Al-Sīrah" by Ibn Ishāq and "Tārīkh al-Islām" by Al-Dhahabī?

What the author attributed to Al-Dhahabi and Ibn Ishaq regarding the story of Bahira the monk: Al-Dhahabi mentioned it in "Tarikh al-Islam" and significantly weakened the story, while Ibn Kathir authenticated the core of the story, though he denounced some of its details. As for Muhammad Husayn Haykal’s words, they are pure imagination on his part, influenced by the suspicions of orientalists who tried to prove the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, had knowledge of the People of the Book’s sciences before his prophethood.