MHMD [01] Mel's returned with a new twist concerning MUHAMMAD'S NAME!

We've got Mel from the 'Origins' YouTube site (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxmmMD0Yswy3OEcSfnMEA3Q) back with us again, and this time he's sharing some brand new research on the name Muhammad. Muslims have always claimed that Muhammad was born in 570 AD and lived until 632 AD, and that he can be found in the "Full light of history". Yet, when we go and look for him historically, we can't find anything about him at all until Ibn Hisham supposedly wrote down his biography sometime just before 833 AD (though that biography was really compiled and written by the German Arabic scholar Wustenfeld in 1860 AD and then attributed back to Ibn Ishaq). Since the 9th and the 19th centuries are much too late to be authoritative, historians (including Muslim ones) have returned to the 7th century to find any references to Muhammad there. And they have found that name in quite a few places, none from any "Muslim sources", which is odd, but all written by individuals outside of Islam who were usually Christians referring to someone, or something, named Muhammad. The problem is that all of those 7th century references to Muhammad place him nowhere near the central part of Arabia (i.e. in Mecca and Medina) but 600 - 1,200 miles further north, to places like Gaza, or Jerusalem, or Damascus and even to what is today called Baghdad, and years after he supposedly died in 632 AD, suggesting that they may be referring to someone or something else. Every Muslim knows that Muhammad never went to any of those cities, and never lived after he died. So, who are these references to Muhammad referring to? Mel has been using research by his friend Murad, and by the researcher named A.J. Deus to look into this name "Muhammad" (or rather MHMD, since Arabic didn't have any dots or vowels in the 7th century to delineate vowel sounds), and they have found some very interesting facts concerning this name...to begin with this was not a name at all, but a title, which means in Arabic "The Praised One", or even "The Lovely One". Consequently, before it became a name to refer to just one person, it was a title which could refer to a number of different people, including one which is indeed quite surprising! But, more of that later. Let's now sit back and follow Mel with this very new research into the name, or rather the title Muhammad (or rather MHMD). © Pfander Centre for Apologetics - US, October 30, 2023 (88,880) Music: 'Country Girl' by aleksound, from filmmusic-io