Was Prophet Mohammed a caravan thieve?

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If I rejected 50 percent of what you say, would you think that this made my position more reliable™?  OFC not.

If you reject 50 percent of some sayings, you would have lots of remarks/methodology/reasons for every bit of the 50 percent rejected. In the case of Islamic hadiths, popular reported numbers are of 12000 genuine hadiths (total number in major hadith collection) of, at least, 750000. You can easily imagine how much ink was spilled to clarify why the hundreds of thousands of hadiths were deemed untrustworthy. And people who write about this are trained scholars who, above all, master classical arabic and can very easily spot a recent fabrication (with respect to their era).

It's difficult to convey the sense of confidence one gets from studying one man's sayings, unless one tries it himself. For example, if one is accustomed to read biographies of Einstein, for example, it gets easier for him to spot the numerous false quotes mentioning his name. If one reads Einstein enough, then encounters the quote "If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts." he would know Einstein just didn't say this shit, it's just some clever nonsense that fits the revolutionary scientist stereotype.

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How reliable do you think spoken narrative actually is?

Very reliable. There is a reason why you believe so many countries exist out there when you went to none of them - you hear about them frequently.