Was Prophet Mohammed a caravan thieve?

[Mr Greene]

Or, at least, they have what islam decides is a good enough chain of narrators.

Sally heard it from bill who got it from steve who spoke to jon that heard from jenny who knew thomas edison... that he hated peas!  Great point about hadith and magic book though...both were constructed using that same reliable™ process.

And what possible process can they have? How can history be preserved if not by having a similar reliable process... Another reason why it's reliable is the huge amount of hadiths, stories, recitations of the Qur'an they rejected, and some of them recently, based on the same mechanisms.

And it's a whole field of study and lots of hadith terminology you have there, I am just trying to simplify things.

There's a reason history starts with the Sumerian texts.
These things dot the landscape here;

According to spoken narrative they were conjured into being by fairies.
How reliable do you think spoken narrative actually is?