history
Historical analysis of religious developments, events, and theological movements relevant to apologetics.
The Re-Formers of Islam: The Mas’ud Questions Paid Members Public
© Nuh Ha Mim Keller 1995 Question 5 Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal Was Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal an anthropomorphist as is alleged by the Salafis? Can you provide me examples of the sayings of Imam Ahmad that show he did not hold the anthropomorphic ‘aqida of the neo-Salafis, as they
AL-TABARI Paid Members Public
By GF Haddad Muhammad ibn Jarir ibn Yazid ibn Kathir, Abu Ja`far al-Tabari (d. 310), one of the major mujtahid Imams and the founder of a school of Law which remained for 150 years after his death, then disappeared. He is the author of a massive commentary on
The Circumstances Surrounding Muhammad’s Marriage to Khadija Paid Members Public
Muslim tradition teaches that Muhammad starting working for a very wealthy merchant woman named Khadija bint Khuwaylid who was fifteen years his senior. Muhammad eventually married her at the age of twenty-five when she was forty years old. The Islamic sources unashamedly admit that Khadija financed Muhammad until she
MORE PROOFS THAT MARIYAH WAS MUHAMMAD’S SEX SLAVE Paid Members Public
I am reposting the following Muslim article, which thoroughly refutes the lie that Muhammad freed and married his sex slave Mariyah the Copt: Maria, the Copt: Prophet Muhammad’s Wife or Concubine?. Waqar Akbar Cheema Abstract Maria, the Copt, sent to Prophet Muhammad by the Patriarch of Alexandria spent the
THE CONTRADICTIONS OF SUNN ISLAM’S SAHIH NARRATIONS Paid Members Public
In this post I am going to list sahih (so-called sound) reports from al-Bukhari and Imam Muslim which contradict each other. First Contradiction Narrated Ibn Abbas: The Prophet was cupped while he was in the state of lhram, and also while he was observing a fast. (Sahih al-
MARY THE COPT: MUHAMMAD’S SEX SLAVE Paid Members Public
In this post I will show from some of Islam’s greatest and most reliable sources that Mary the Copt was Muhammad’s sex slave. I begin by quoting a very prominent Salafi website: Question: There is no doubt that Mariyah al-Qibtiyyah was the concubine of the Messenger (peace
THE SCRIBE THAT EXPOSED THE FRAUD OF MUHAMMAD AND HIS GOD Paid Members Public
Islamic tradition states that one of the individuals that Muhammad ordered to be murdered subsequent to his conquest of Mecca was Abdallah ibn Sa’d ibn Abi Sarh, the foster brother of Uthman ibn Affan: Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas: Abdullah ibn AbuSarh used to write (the revelation) for the Apostle
The Origins of the Quran’s Fairytales Exposed: Nimrod and the Fire Paid Members Public
In this post I intend to supplement the material found in the following posts: Abraham and the Flame of the Chaldeans: How the Quran Turns a Fable into Reality The Incomplete Quran Strikes Again: A Showdown with Nimrod? The Quran records the disbelievers accusing Muhammad of parroting the fables and