Was Islam's Muhammad definitely a real historical character or is there some doubt, as there is about Jesus?

Answer 1

He was probably a real historical charactor. We know this because someone calling himself Mohammed sent a letter to the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius in 628 AD demanding that the emperor renounce Christianity and accept Islam on pain of some kind of vengeance. Heraclius thought the author was a madman, and beyond filing the letter away, paid it no further attention. Altho the letter itself hasn't survived, several later Byzantine sources referenced it.

Scholars, drawing I believe on Islamic sources, think that similar letters were sent to the rulers of other states bordering on Arabia.

The Byzantines became alarmed when, some years after the rejection of Mohammed's letter, the Arabs began making serious raids on Palestine and Syria. The Christian Arab state of the Ghassanids, a longtime Byzantine vassal, also came under heavy attack. The Byzantines did not at first connect these aggressions with the letter they had received. Even after they learned that the raiders were being sent by a warlord named Mohammed, they apparently thought this man was a different Mohammed from the mad prophet whose ravings had amused them. Their doubts about this are one of the things revisionist scholars are now using to make a case that the traditional Mohammed is a fictional construct.

By the time the Muslim raids escalted to full-scale invasion however, the Byzantines had become convinced that the warlord and the moonbat were one and the same. When the invading army came, they assumed the man commanding it was Mohammed himself and continued to believe so for at least a decade after losing Syria to the new Islamic state. In actuality the commander of the army was Khalid ibn al-Walid, the military genius of the original jihad. According to early Islamic sources, Mohammed had died of natural causes two years before the invasion was launched. The same sources however credit him with planning the great invasion before he died.

Answer 2

Well apparently he is very real to the Muslim world but to most religions there is some doubt to where Muhammad fits in and what time period that he was proclaimed as prophet. It is safe to say that the doubts come from a lot of non religious people who are of no understanding of any faith what so ever. It took me to do some studying on who Muhammad was and what was his true beliefs for me to get any understanding of what Muslims was trying to say and why they revere him so as the prophet of prophets in there world.

Of course we and the rest of the world will always have some sort of doubt of both Jesus and to Muhammad because of there strong belief from both the Christian and Muslim cultures. That is something that the rest of the world will either have to except or not that is really there choice.

Answer 3

First off, there is no doubt about Jesus. Seriously, he is mentioned in several historical books and no one seems to have taken issue with his existence in the 1st century.

But to answer your question, Muhammed was a real historical character.

Answer 4

There is NO credible doubt about Jesus being a historic figure

Answer 5

There is far more historical evidence for Jesus to exist than any historical figure of that century. There is far more evidence for the historical accuracy of the new testament than any other ancient text.

Answer 6

Mohommad was a real person and an evil one at that. He is not the most documented person, The LORD Jesus is the most documented person ever. Jesus is the Son of God and is God. Christ Jesus lives, mohommad is dead and buried. The religion of islam was started by Abrahams son Ishmael and brought into vogue by mohommad. Read the Bible for the truth of this although you wont find a reference to mohommad in the Bible.

Answer 7

Jesus never existed....Christians only want the rest of the world to believe in their tooth fairy...
http://www.jesuspuzzle.com/
http://www.nobeliefs.com/exist.htm

as to Mohammedism....

Although Mohammed is believed to have been born in the year 570 or 571 CE, it is not known what name he was given by his mother. Mohammed ('praiseworthy' or 'highly praised') is obviously an honorific title, not a name. In fact, once in the Qur’an (at 61:6) he is called ’Ahmad, which in Arabic means 'more praiseworthy', and at times his contemporaries are said to have called him al-’Amin, which means 'the trustworthy one'. Despite this problem, Muslims believe that Mohammed - whoever he may have been - was born in Mecca, an Arabian city supposed to have been located at the intersection of major caravan trade routes. Orphaned early in life, when he reached the age of twenty-five (595 CE) he married a wealthy widow named Khadija, fifteen years his senior. According to a traditional account, Mohammed had married his boss - the merchant Khadija having been his employer at the time. Only after her death in 620 did Mohammed begin to practice polygamy, taking perhaps a dozen wives. Only one of his children survived, however, a daughter named Fatima. (She married her father's cousin ‘Ali, making him the ancestor of all the prophet's later descendants.)

Tradition also tells us that in the year 610, while meditating in a cave outside Mecca, a supernatural voice (later identified as the voice of the angel Gabriel, the same heavenly messenger that previously had delivered the results of the pregnancy test to the Virgin Mary) commanded him to "Recite in the name of thy Lord, who created." Thus began the alleged revelations of the Qur’an. This event is revered as the "First Call" of the prophet and has been immortalized as the "Night of Power."
As is necessary for foundation myths of virtually all religions, the first followers of the new faith had to endure persecution, fleeing to Christian Ethiopia around the year 615. While those Muslims-in-the-making were out of town, Mohammed and the disciples who had stayed with him in Mecca were confined under siege - to be starved into submission.

Just in the nick of time, Mohammed received a revelation that helpfully clarified the theopolitical questions at issue for the Meccan guardians of the gods in the Ka‘aba. When Mohammed had reported that Allah was the only god in town, it turned out that he hadn't received the entire satellite transmission. Perhaps Gabriel had mumbled and Mohammed missed part of the message. Wouldn't you know? The three favorite goddesses of Mecca - al-Lat, al-Uzzah, and al-Manat - were also real! This saved Mohammed's neck and all body parts attached thereto, and the exiles were able to return from Ethiopia. Later, when it was safe to do so, this all-important revelation was expunged from the Qur’an and it was explained that the revelation had come from Shaitan (Satan), not Allah. Thus began the legend of the "Satanic Verses," which more than a thousand years later was to prompt the Ayatollah Khomeini to issue a fatwa of death against the novelist Salman Rushdie.

Answer 8

Muhammad is the most documented man in history. He is buried in Madinah, and everyone knows where his grave is. there is no doubt about his existence. btw Jesus also existed (still does) and is a Prophet of God

Answer 9

There is no doubt about Muhammed or Jesus, both of them are Prophets.

Sincerely
Mike

Answer 10

Muhammad (Peace be upon him) existed and so did Jesus (Peace be upon him).
There is no doubt whatsoever that Muhammad (Peace be upon him) lived and his grave is in Madina in Saudi Arabia.
Jesus (Peace be upon him) is alive and will come back to Earth.