(January 14, 2015 at 5:45 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: What do you say about the offspring of Fatima? Why were they labeled offspring of Mohammad?
I would say, where is it documented Fatima or any offspring existed and when was the documentation written? Or are these mere stories passed down as fact?
It's not that hard to create a whole chain of "personages", starting with real people and then as you go further back in time, the documentation gets a bit wispy. Case in point - the succession of Catholic Popes. If you go back far enough, there is essentially no evidence some of these people existed.
It's also easy to invent historical people from whole cloth. Case in point - William Tell. He was born, died, did some conquering, served in Swiss Parliament and so on. Problem is, he didn't actually exist.
