Christianity vs Islam - Comparing the Earliest Biographies and Sayings Written - Jay Smith

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The accounts of Jesus were written 15-60 years after the death and Resurrection of Jesus by eyewitness and friends of the eyewitnesses. Matthew and John were eyewitnesses.
Mark and Luke got their information from the eyewitnesses.
When you look at what we have historically and what Islam has historically, there is no comparison.
Islam was written 200-300 years after the death of Muhammad by no eye witnesses or by people who never knew him, nor even lived in the same country he lived. That is why we can know exactly who Jesus was and what Jesus said. I Place ALL my Trust in My Lord and Savior Jesus Christ as Muslims Should.

March of 2018 Al Fadi invited Dr Jay Smith to his studio to record with him a number of videos on the historical problems concerning Islam's beginnings, and other areas of historical interest.

In this series, they are discussing the problems with what we know concerning Islam's emergence onto the world stage.

They begin this first episode by assessing the classical account of Muhammad’s life, his time in Mecca, his movement to Medina, and his reception of the Qur’an between 610 – 632 AD

It is this account that we are taught in our schools and universities, and the only account that Muslims are told to believe. Yet, few people have bothered to critique or question it...until now.

Rarely are we told that everything we possess on Muhammad's life and saying do not come from anyone who was living at that time (i.e. eyewitness account) but was only written down between 200 – 240 years after the fact, by people who never knew him, nor even lived in the same country he lived.

What's odd is that no one seems to be troubled by this fact. If we as Christians were forced to depend on the same historical authority for our Lord Jesus Christ, on such late material for who Jesus was, what he did, and what he said (i.e. the Sira, the Hadith and the Tafsir of Jesus), we would have nothing written down about him until the 3rd century. How would we ever support his historicity, or argue for his authenticity?

We now come to the very real problems with Islam's history, from the perspective of the historians themselves.

Since so much of what is classically known about how Islam began is derived from the 9th and 10th centuries, for what was happening in the 7th century (thus, around 200 - 300 years too late), historians are concerned by such a time discrepancy.

So, they have decided to return to the 7th century, and find out what exactly the historical evidence tells us.

And what they are finding is not very encouraging.

For instance:

-The first Arab inscription referencing Muhammad is in 691 AD, yet it should be from the time Muhammad lived, in 632 AD, or before. Suggesting no Arab referred to Muhammad for 60 years following his death (Volker Popp-Ohlig & Puin 2010:53)

-The first reference to the term ‘Muslim’ is in the 690s. Prior to that time they were called: Saracen’, ‘Hagarene’, ‘Ishmaelite’, ‘Maghraye’, and ‘Muhajiroun’ (‘Chronicle of John of Niku’ – 1602, & Nevo & Koren, 2003:234)

-The first reference to the term ‘Islam’ is not until 691 AD (on the Dome of the Rock) (Volker Popp-Ohlig, & Puin 2010:71)

-The first reference to Mecca is not until 741 AD, yet this is the city where Abraham supposedly lived in 1800 BC (see Surah 21:51-71), and where Muhammad grew up (Crone 1987:134-136; Hoyland 1997:426; Holland 2012:303)

-The first biography of Muhammad within Islamic sources is not until 833 AD (Ibn Hisham & Al Waqidi)

These findings are indeed damaging, and suggest that the classical account of how Islam began is not only false, but can not be supported when observing that which history affords us.

The scholars who are doing this investigation involve some of the best minds in the Western world today, including:

-Dr John Wansborough (SOAS: Qur’anic studies, Sect. Milieu)
-Dr Gerald Hawting (SOAS: 1st c. of Islam)
-Dr Patricia Cröne (Princeton: Meccan trade, 15 languages)
-Dr Andrew Rippin (Calgary: Muslims, Their beliefs/Practices)
-Dr Robert Hoyland (Oxford: Seeing Islam as Others, 18 lang.)
-Dr Yehuda Nevo (Jerusalem: Crossroads to Islam, inscriptions)
-Dr Gunther Lűling, Dr Gerd-Rüdiger Puin, Dr Hans-Caspar Graf von Bothmer, Dr Karl-Heinz Ohlig (Germany, earkt Qur'anic MSS)

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