Response to Vocab Malone, Anthony Rogers and David Wood pt 3

Response to Vocab Malone, Anthony Rogers and David Wood pt 3

Ibn Ishaq admits the Satanic Verses story is false: Abu Hayyan al-Andulasi (d. 745 A.H.) mentions; “About this story Imam Muhammad bin Ishaq, the compiler of sirah, was asked, he said: ‘This is from the fabrication of the heretics.’ And he wrote a book on the issue.” (al-Bahr al-Muhit fil Tafsir, Dar al-Fekr, Beirut, 1420 A.H. vol.7 p.526) The Quran Preserved during the Prophet Muhammads time: Sahih Bukhari, Book 52, Hadith 233 Mustadrak al-Hakim, Hadith 6051, Dar al-Kotob al-Ilmiyya, Beirut, 1990 Al-Hakim classified it as Sahih. Al-Dhahabi agreed with him. The Quran was preserved during the Prophets time according to non Muslims: "In 1972 A Treasure trove of ancient manuscripts of the Quran was discovered in Sana (Yemen?).. Certainly the existence of the manuscripts indicates that the text or at the very least substantial parts of it existed in some sort of collected form by the 8th century" Rippin, A: Muslims: their religious beliefs and practices, page 35 (2005)