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According to Islamic tradition, Muhammad died in 632 AD. Much of the information regarding the life of the prophet comes from his biography called the 'Sira', supposedly written by Ibn Hisham (d.833 AD), as well as his sayings called the 'Hadith', initially written by Al Bukhari (d.870 AD).
From these dates (833 AD and 870 AD) it is obvious that both of these men did not know Muhammad at all, nor were they even living in the same century as him, as they lived and worked over 200 years after he died.
Even the caliph Abd al-Malik, credited by Dr Shoemaker for writing down the first Qur'anic material we have access to lived 60 years after Muhammad.
What this means is that there are actually no eyewitness accounts of Muhammad’s life, or of his sayings. No one was actually there who saw what he did, or heard what he said.
All of these three men who are credited for creating the basis for what we now call Islam today lived 100s of years after the events they wrote about, and hundreds of miles further north.
Consequently, everything they knew and everything they wrote down was dependent on Oral Tradition, which is nothing more than "Word-of-mouth".
Basically, this means that someone told so-and-so what they believed happened, and then he told another so-and-so, who told another so-and-so, who finally wrote down what he believed he was told, picking and choosing what he did not like, and retaining that which he did like, so that what we have today is nothing more than what had been filtered, changed and manipulated into the story Muslims follow.
How then can any of their accounts be counted as credible, having been censored for over 200 years?
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