Did Prophet Muhammad said:
About this story, Abu Hayyan al-Andulasi (d. 745 A.H.) mentions; Imam Muhammad bin Ishaq, the compiler of sirah, was asked, he said:
Where do Ibn Jarir al-Tabari (d.
310/923) claim to be the source of that alleged report?
It is precisely the opposite.
He has only transmitted the story as it was transmitted to him. Al-Tabari mentions the so-called 'Satanic verses' story in his Tarikh as well as an important set of statements in the introduction of his book, which states:
Let him who examines this book of mine
know that I have relied, as regards everything I mention therein which I stipulate
to be described by me, solely upon what has been transmitted to me by way of reports
which I cite therein and traditions which I ascribe to their narrators, to the exclusion
of what may be apprehended by rational argument or deduced by the human mind, except
in very few cases. This is because knowledge of the reports of men of the past and
of contemporaneous views of men of the present do not reach the one who has not witnessed
them nor lived in their times except through the accounts of reporters and the transmission
of transmitters, to the exclusion of rational deduction and mental inference. Hence,
if I mention in this book a report about some men of the past, which the reader of
listener finds objectionable or worthy of censure because he can see no aspect of
truth nor any factual substance therein, let him know that this is not to be attributed
to us but to those who transmitted it to us and we have merely passed this on as
it has been passed on to us.(Abu Ja`far
Muhammad bin Jarir al-Tabari, Tarikh al-Tabari: Tarikh al-Umam
wal-Muluk, 1997, Volume
I, Dar al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyyah, Beirut (Lebanon), p. 13.
Orientalists like John Burton, concluded with an original argument:
Shaukani says, ‘There is nothing true in it and none of its links is proved.’ (Fath al-Qadeer 5/128)
Ibn Jawzi says: ‘This is not correct.’ (Zaad al-Muyassar 4/391)
When Ibn Khuzaimah was asked about it, he said, "This story has been invented by heretics". (Tafsir al-Raazi 11/134)
Baihaqi said; "This story has not been proved to be correct by the rules of reporting". (Tafsir a-Raazi 11/135)
Qazi `Ayad says, "The very fact that this tradition is neither contained in any of the authentic collections of Hadith nor has it been related in an authentic way by authentic reporters shows its weakness". (Al-Shifa 2/125)
Besides them, Imam Razi (in his Tafsir 11/135), Qazi Abu Bakr Ibn al-`Arabi (Al-Shifa 2/126), Alusi (in his Tafsir 13/99) etc. have rejected it altogether.
Source
Allah knows best.
افتريت على الله، وقلت ما لم يقل
"I have fabricated things against God and have imputed to Him words which He has not spoken." ? (Al-Tabari, vol. 6, p. 111)
Response:
About this story, Abu Hayyan al-Andulasi (d. 745 A.H.) mentions; Imam Muhammad bin Ishaq, the compiler of sirah, was asked, he said:
هذا من وضع الزنادقة
‘This is from the fabrication of the heretics.’
And he wrote a book on the issue.”(al-Bahr al-Muhit fil Tafsir, Dar al-Fekr, Beirut, 1420 A.H. vol.7 p.526)
It is precisely the opposite.
He has only transmitted the story as it was transmitted to him. Al-Tabari mentions the so-called 'Satanic verses' story in his Tarikh as well as an important set of statements in the introduction of his book, which states:
Orientalists like John Burton, concluded with an original argument:
There existed therefore a compelling theoretical motive for the invention of these infamous hadiths. If it be felt that this has now been demonstrated, there should be no further difficulty in suggesting that those hadiths have no historical basis.(Source)Ibn Kathir said; ‘All the links of this Tradition are unauthentic and I have found no correct version of this with continuous links.’ (Ibn Kathir in his Tafsir 5/441-442)
Shaukani says, ‘There is nothing true in it and none of its links is proved.’ (Fath al-Qadeer 5/128)
Ibn Jawzi says: ‘This is not correct.’ (Zaad al-Muyassar 4/391)
When Ibn Khuzaimah was asked about it, he said, "This story has been invented by heretics". (Tafsir al-Raazi 11/134)
Baihaqi said; "This story has not been proved to be correct by the rules of reporting". (Tafsir a-Raazi 11/135)
Qazi `Ayad says, "The very fact that this tradition is neither contained in any of the authentic collections of Hadith nor has it been related in an authentic way by authentic reporters shows its weakness". (Al-Shifa 2/125)
Besides them, Imam Razi (in his Tafsir 11/135), Qazi Abu Bakr Ibn al-`Arabi (Al-Shifa 2/126), Alusi (in his Tafsir 13/99) etc. have rejected it altogether.
Source
Allah knows best.
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