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Historicity of the Satanic Verses: The Origin📚 #islam #history #arabhistory #quran #arabhistory


There are loads of weak/mursal reports transmitted with no explicit pre-200AH comment on their reliability (or lack thereof). Does this mean everyone thought them to be historical? It was the mid 100s when formalized/rigorous hadith criticism really began (Shu'ba ibn al-Hajjaj)

Historicity of the Satanic Verses: The Origin📚 #islam #history #arabhistory #quran #arabhistory



Shahab Ahmed notes that for the first 200 years of Islam, the Satanic Verse incident had near universal acceptance by Muslims as being historical (!) The rise of the Ahl Hadith movement in the 3rd century Hijri and their need for Prophetic impeccability would change this





