Home > The Occult & Mental State
His initial fear of jinn and physical symptoms during "revelations" mirror biblical accounts of demonic affliction. Muhammad's opponents called him "mad," "possessed," or "influenced by devils".
"Then the angel caught me (forcefully) and pressed me so hard that I could not bear it... Then he released me and said, ‘Read!'... I returned to Khadijah trembling with fear and said, ‘Cover me! Cover me!'"
The terror Muhammad felt contrasts with the calm assurance given to biblical prophets when encountering God's angels
Muhammad reportedly recited verses honoring three pagan goddesses al-Lāt, al-‘Uzzā, and Manāt, which he later retracted, saying: "Satan cast upon my tongue words I did not intend."
Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk, Vol. 6, pp. 108–110 (Dar al-Kutub/SUNY Edition): "Satan cast on his tongue, because of what he had been pondering in his self and desiring to bring to his people: 'These are the high-flying cranes (al-gharaniq al-'ula); verily their intercession is to be hoped for.'"
Approximately 615 CE
Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir, Vol. 1, p. 237: "Satan made him utter these two phrases: 'These are the exalted gharaniq, whose intercession is to be hoped for.' ... The people were delighted and said, 'Muhammad has spoken of our gods in favorable terms.'"
Approximately 615 CE
This reference describes events that occurred approximately in the 5th year of Muhammad’s prophetic mission, which corresponds to roughly 615 CE. While Al-Tabari (the author) wrote this work in the late 9th/early 10th century (around 915 CE), the specific events on those pages are dated to the early Meccan period.
Sahih al-Bukhari, Book 71, Hadith 658: Bukhari does not explain why the pagans prostrated. For that explanation, one must turn to the history of Al-Tabari (which you cited previously) or Ibn Sa'd, who claim the pagans prostrated because they heard the "Satanic Verses" praising their goddesses.
Sahih Muslim, Book 26, Hadith 5436: Muslim also records that the Prophet recited Surah An-Najm and prostrated, and everyone with him prostrated too.
It is not found in the "Sahih" (canonical) collections like Bukhari or Muslim because the compilers of those works generally excluded reports that they felt compromised the theological doctrine of 'Ismah (Prophetic protection from error).
The Satanic verses that were NOT abrogated. They were removed as NOTHING replaced them).
Sahih al-Bukhari 71:658: "The Prophet was bewitched so that he began to imagine that he had done something which in fact he had not done."
This hadith undermines Muhammad's claim to unbroken divine inspiration
Galatians 1:8-9 - "But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed."
Islam and Muhammad deny the crufixion, death and resurrection and preach a gospel of works. By Paul’s standard, the origin of a message is secondary to its content. Even if the source appears to be an angel (Gabriel), if the content contradicts the established Gospel of the Cross, Paul declares the messenger anathema (accursed).
If Muhammad could not initially distinguish between a Satanic suggestion and a Divine revelation then this serves as the historical "proof" that the warning in Galatians was a necessary safeguard.