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Taken from wikipedia:

Some early Islamic histories recount that as Muhammad was reciting Sūra Al-Najm (Q.53), as revealed to him by the angel Gabriel, Satan tempted him to utter the following lines after verses 19 and 20 :"Have you thought of Allāt and al-'Uzzā and Manāt the third, the other; These are the exalted Gharaniq, whose intercession is hoped for." The Allāt, al-'Uzzā and Manāt were three goddesses worshiped by the Meccans. These histories then say that these 'Satanic Verses' were repudiated shortly afterward by Muhammad at the behest of Gabriel.[25] Academic scholars such as William Montgomery Watt and Alfred Guillaume argued for its authenticity based upon the implausibility of Muslims fabricating a story so unflattering to their prophet. Watt says that "the story is so strange that it must be true in essentials."[26] On the other hand, John Burton rejected the tradition.

Salam. Just who exactly are these historians who claim that Muhammad(pbuh) ever said such things? What are their facts. I have never encountered in the hadiths anything of this sort.

 

[Abu Hafs]

BismiLlah,

Wa 'Alaykum Assalam,

http://siraajunmuneer.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/a-refutation-to-the-“satanic-verses”-incident/