Muhammad: Break with the Jewsadulterers, but Muhammad is said to have asked that a Torah be brought
and read. The Jews are then reported to have read from the Torah, and
covered the "verse about stoning" with a hand. When they were requested
to show what they were hiding, the verse of stoning became manifest, and
the adulterers were then stoned to death; Sahih Bukhari, vol. 8, p. 529;
Sahih Muslim, vol. 3, pp. 918 f; Guillaume, Muhammad, pp. 266 f.
[107] Guillaume, Muhammad, pp. 246 f, 264; Buhl, Muhammeds, p. 218;
Andrae, Mohammed, p. 137.
[108] See nn. 35 and 92, above; cf. n. 36, above, for other Jewish
greetings.
[109] Buhl, Muhammeds, p. 219, in speaking of the threat of the Jews
undermining Muhammad's prophetic authority, states (trans.) : "He
(Muhammad) could not possibly concede that his earlier prophet stories
were incorrect, since they had appeared with the stamp of revelation, and
on the other hand he could not all of the sudden disavow the earlier
revelations, to which he had appealed up until then." (cf. Buhl, in SEI,
p. 398). Although this same idea is followed by Welch, in EI², s.v.
"Muhammad," p. 368, Muhammad was certainly aware of such blatant
corruptions of Biblical narratives as are found, for example, in Qur'an
71:20-24.
[110] See pp. 86 and 112, n. 37, above.
[111] See Appendix D, pp. 385 f.
[112] Josephus, Ant., 1, 12, 4.