"It was Umar, Abu Turab and Salman the Persian who composed that (“your P’ourkan” [or Furqan]), even though the rumour has got around among you that God sent it down from the heavens…. As for your [Book], you have already given us examples of such falsifications and one knows among others of a certain Hajjaj, named by you as governor of Persia, who had men gather your ancient books, which he replaced by others composed by himself according to his taste and which he disseminated everywhere in your nation, because it was easier by far to undertake such a task among a people speaking a single language. From this destruction, nonetheless, there escaped a few of the works of Abu Turab, for Hajjaj could not make them disappear completely."
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Leo III the Isaurian (717–741) . Leo-Umar, Letter (Armenian), 292, 297–298, from Arthur Jeffrey, “Ghevond’s Text of the Correspondence between Umar II and Leo III,” Harvard Theological Review 37 (1944), 269–322, (quoted in Hoyland, Seeing Islam, 500–501). quoted in Did muhammad exist? : an inquiry into islam’s obscure origins. (2012). . ISI Books. March 1 2024
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