The Islamic prophet's foreknowledge of the Terfeziaceae's health benefits

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From early stages of civilization, desert macrofungi in forms of mushrooms and truffles have been used as food and medicine. Originally, these types of organisms were associated with Mediterranean region and were first recorded as poem in Egyptian temples as follows: “Without leaves, without buds, without flowers: yet they from fruit; as a food, as a tonic, as a medicine: the entire creation is precious.” b

'From the early stages of civilization' is pretty unambiguous, not to mention 'Egyptian temples'.

Boru

This is vague too. There is no mention of truffles' water or any other detail about the medicinal use of truffles. The hadith is simply more precise than the poem above.

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Don't cherry pick, read the whole article. It was in the culture prior to mo's birth.

If you continue to use this you're only proving him a fake. But then we already knew that he always was.

Even if you manage to find a report of using truffles' water in medicine -which you didn't- this only proves Muhammad said something that is known and true. This hardly proves he's not a prophet.

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People didn't need to know about the existence of microbes.  The use of plants for medicinal purposes goes back thousands of years, long before the hadiths.  They didn't need to know how it worked, only that it did work, and that knowledge would get passed down to a new generation of herbalists.  The lack of a scientific explanation doesn't stop a remedy from working.

Still, there is no report of using truffles' water for medicinal purposes before Muhammad. If such a knowledge was common before him, there would be accounts of it.