Islamic history and it's validity

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The historiography of early Islam is the secular scholarly literature on the early history of Islam during the 7th century, from Muhammad's first purported revelations in 610 until the disintegration of the 
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May 24, 2025 - Al-Bukhari's historical methods of testing hadiths and isnads is seen as the beginning of the method of citation and a precursor to the scientific method. I. A. Ahmad writes: "The vagueness of ancient historians about their sources stands in stark contrast to the insistence that scholars such ...
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4 weeks ago - The Quran states that several prior writings constitute holy books given by God to the prophets and messengers amongst the Children of Israel, in the same way the Quran was revealed to Muhammad. These include the Tawrat, believed by Muslims to have been given by God to the prophets and messengers ...
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16 hours ago - Religious achievements included completion of the canonical collections of Hadith of Sahih Bukhari and others. Islam recognized to a certain extent the validity of the Abrahamic religions, the Quran identifying Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians, and Sabians (commonly identified with the Mandaeans) ...
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The Islamic view on the Hebrew Old Testament – Almuslih
Progressive, Enlightened Voices from the Arab World · IN THE QUR’ĀN, the Hebrew Bible is referred to in two different ways: the ‘Book’ and the ‘Torah’. The Torah defines not only the Pentateuch – the five books of Moses – but also the rest of the Hebrew Bible[1] along with ...
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Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research
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Blind Spots: The Origins of the Western Method of Critiquing Hadith | Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research
Dr. Jonathan Brown provides a manageable summary of how and why ‘modern’ people came to a uniquely skeptical and cynical attitude towards scripture and orthodoxy across religious traditions.
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Ishmael, The Qur'ān, And The Bible
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January 5, 2018 - Scholars believe the Quran was compiled shortly after Muhammad’s death, under the guidance of Caliph Abu Bakr. Ramadan is the most holy Islamic holiday. The Islamic calendar, also called the Hijra calendar, is a lunar calendar used in Islamic religious worship.
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quran - Is there historical/scientific evidence that Jews and Christians altered the original message of God? - Islam Stack Exchange

First of all, no, I do not think or at least have not seen that there is too much historical evidence to that effect. This is simply because there is very little record of Jesus (AS)'s life in general except for the Gospels themselves (which are being accused of corruption).

But, to put emphasis again, the lack of historical evidence is not a demonstration that there was no corruption, but it is a demonstration of the lack of historical records themselves.

It is similar to me giving you a few books from, for example, South America all of them written by priests of a certain religion in the year 300. Those books all claim that the "sun god" came down to Earth in 280 and built a temple there. What would you believe of these books in this scenario?

If you say, you do not believe it, then what if a follower of this religion asked you if you had any historical record to prove that the books were corrupted by later followers?

If these books were given to me, I would automatically disbelieve in the story simply because it makes no sense. Then, I would conclude that the books either completely made it up (i.e. it is completely corrupted), or that a king or prophet really did exist who built the temple but the claim that he was a sun god was a corruption by himself or his followers (i.e. half corrupted). I would believe this regardless of the lack of evidence. Absence of evidence is, after all, not evidence of absence. In the presence of a largely undocumented story except for one perspective it is not at all far-fetched to believe that the one perspective is corrupted or false when it goes against all reason.

In other words, the absurdity of the claims is itself evidence of corruption.

In this case, Muslims are given the same thing except with Christianity. Jesus (AS) teaching that he himself was the son of God or even the concept of anyone being the son of God is as absurd to us as a sun god building a temple in South America.

Allah says in the Quran:

The disbelievers say, ‘The Lord of Mercy has offspring.’ How terrible is this thing you assert: it almost causes the heavens to be torn apart, the earth to split asunder, the mountains to crumble to pieces, that they attribute offspring to the Lord of Mercy.

It does not befit the Lord of Mercy [to have offspring]: there is no one in the heavens or earth who will not come to the Lord of Mercy as a servant- (19:88-93)

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Al-Islam
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Chapter 1: Historical Comparison | Islam and Christianity, A Comparative Study | Al-Islam.org
February 14, 2019 - A Brief History of the Bible and the Qur'an The Qur'an is the most sacred book of Islam. It was divine inspiration and revelation by God to Muhammad (S) through the medium of the Holy Spirit, the Archangel Gabriel, about fourteen hundred years ago. The Holy Qur'an consists of 114 Chapters written ...
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Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research
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Authenticating Hadith and the History of Hadith Criticism | Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research
August 29, 2024 - How do we know that Hadith is credible? This paper discusses the origins, mechanics, and development of Sunni hadith criticism, from the perspective of Muslim scholarship.
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2 days ago - Christianity and Islam are the two largest religions in the world, with approximately 2.3 billion and 1.8 billion adherents, respectively. Both are Abrahamic religions and monotheistic, originating in the Middle East. Christianity developed out of Second Temple Judaism in the 1st century CE.
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Has the Bible Been Corrupted as Some Muslims Claim? - C.S. Lewis Institute
June 18, 2024 - Among those questions was one I still hear frequently today from Muslims: “Hasn’t the Bible been corrupted?”
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3 days ago - Injil (Arabic: Ű„Ù†ŰŹÙŠÙ„, romanized: ÊŸInjÄ«l, alternative spellings: Ingil or Injeel) is the Arabic name for the Gospel of Jesus (Isa). This Injil is described by the Quran as one of the four Islamic holy books which was revealed by Allah, the others being the Zabur (traditionally understood ...
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Hadith - Wikipedia
1 week ago - Hadith is the Arabic word for a 'report' or an 'account [of an event]' and refers to the Islamic oral tradition of anecdotes containing the purported words, actions, and the silent approvals of the Islamic prophet Muhammad or his immediate circle (companions in Sunni Islam, Ahl al-Bayt in Shiite ...
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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Islam | Religion, Beliefs, Practices, & Facts | Britannica
September 30, 1998 - Islam, major world religion that emphasizes monotheism, the unity of God (‘Allah’ in Arabic), and Muhammad as his final messenger in a series of revelations. As the literal word of God, the Qur’an makes known the will of God, to which humans must surrender (lending the name Islam, meaning ...