- Chapter II TRUE OR FALSE?-

WELCOME TO THE DEPARTMENT OF THINGS YOU THOUGHT WERE SATIRE



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Ten claims.

All taken from texts treated as authentic within the Sunni hadith tradition.


Some are bizarre.

Some are disturbing.

Some would sound like anti-religious parody if somebody hadn't written them down centuries before us.


Your job is simple.

TRUE or FALSE?


Guess first.

Open the source second.


Reality doesn't care how offended anybody gets.

camel pharmacy

CLAIM-01

Muhammad instructed sick people to drink camel urine and camel milk as treatment.

TRUE OR FALSE?

TRUE

TRUE : SOURCE // SAHIH AL-BUKHARI 5686

FALSE

Please consult your doctor before consulting the camel.

the fly protocol

CLAIM-02

If a fly falls into your drink, Muhammad instructed you to submerge the entire fly, because one wing carries disease and the other carries its cure.

TRUE OR FALSE?

TRUE

TRUE : SOURCE // SAHIH AL-BUKHARI 3320

FALSE

One wing: disease.

Other wing: pharmacy.

The fly apparently attended medical school.

adult breastfeeding

CLAIM-03

Muhammad told a woman to breastfeed a man who had already reached adulthood so that he could acquire a familial status allowing him to enter the household.

TRUE OR FALSE?

TRUE

TRUE : SOURCE // SAHIH MUSLIM 1453b

FALSE

When family law needs a lactation workaround, we're officially through the looking glass.

seven dates, zero poison

CLAIM-04

Eating seven Ajwa dates in the morning protects you that day from poison and magic.

TRUE OR FALSE?

TRUE

TRUE : SOURCE // SAHIH AL-BUKHARI 5779

FALSE

Big Pharma hates this one simple breakfast.

sunset, now with mud

CLAIM-05

The Qur'an describes Dhul-Qarnayn reaching the setting place of the sun and finding it setting in a spring of dark, muddy water.

TRUE OR FALSE?

TRUE

TRUE : SOURCE // QUR'AN 18:86

FALSE

“he found it setting in a muddy spring”

satan loves a yawn

CLAIM-06

Muhammad said yawning comes from Satan — and that Satan laughs when you yawn.

TRUE OR FALSE?

TRUE

TRUE : SOURCE // SAHIH AL-BUKHARI 6226

FALSE

Apparently exhaustion needed a supernatural department.

the puberty test

CLAIM-07

Male captives were examined for pubic hair; those judged to have reached puberty were killed, while those who had not were spared.

TRUE OR FALSE?

TRUE

TRUE SOURCE // SUNAN ABI DAWUD 4404 — graded ṢAḤĪḤ by al-Albani

SOURCE // JAMIʿ AT-TIRMIDHI 1584 — Hasan Sahih; also graded Sahih by Darussalam

FALSE

Sorry, it's true

deficient in intelligence and religion

CLAIM-08

Muhammad described women as “deficient in intelligence and religion.”

TRUE OR FALSE?

TRUE

TRUE : SOURCE // SAHIH AL-BUKHARI 304

FALSE

Don't shoot the messenger. Actually, don't shoot anybody.

fever: brought to you by hell

CLAIM-09

Muhammad said fever comes from the heat of Hell.

TRUE OR FALSE?

TRUE

TRUE SOURCE // SAHIH AL-BUKHARI 3261–3264

FALSE

The thermometer declined to comment.

the cosmic ride

CLAIM-10

Muhammad travelled on a supernatural white creature called al-Burāq, described as larger than a donkey but smaller than a mule, whose stride reached as far as it could see.


TRUE OR FALSE?

TRUE

TRUE : SOURCE // SAHIH MUSLIM 162a

FALSE

It was a supernatural donkey-sized intercity transport system.

Accuracy matters.