Imposters and Fake Prophets

Sura Al-Inaam: Aya 93 Ch: VII

وَمَنْ أَظْلَمُ مِمَّنِ افْتَرَىٰ عَلَى اللَّهِ كَذِبًا أَوْ قَالَ أُوحِيَ إِلَيَّ وَلَمْ يُوحَ إِلَيْهِ شَيْءٌ وَمَن قَالَ سَأُنزِلُ مِثْلَ مَا أَنزَلَ اللَّهُ ۗ وَلَوْ تَرَىٰ إِذِ الظَّالِمُونَ فِي غَمَرَاتِ الْمَوْتِ وَالْمَلَائِكَةُ بَاسِطُو أَيْدِيهِمْ أَخْرِجُوا أَنفُسَكُمُ ۖ الْيَوْمَ تُجْزَوْنَ عَذَابَ الْهُونِ بِمَا كُنتُمْ تَقُولُونَ عَلَى اللَّهِ غَيْرَ الْحَقِّ وَكُنتُمْ عَنْ آيَاتِهِ تَسْتَكْبِرُونَ

And who is more unjust than he who forges a lie against Allah, or says: It has been revealed to me; while nothing has been revealed to him, and he who says: I can reveal the like of what Allah has revealed? and if you had seen when the unjust shall be in the agonies of death and the angels shall spread forth their hands: Give up your souls; today shall you be recompensed with an ignominious chastisement because you spoke against Allah other than the truth and (because) you showed pride against His communications.

{This Aya is about imposters like Muslama Alkazab (the Liar), who claimed that he received the revelations through an angel, Imposter Aswad Eisa claimed, a person riding a mule comes and teaches him “The Book” and Abdullah ibni Abi Sarah (a milk-brother of Ottoman III caliph, one of the scripter of Quran), while taking down revelations, occasionally out of fun and wickedness used to change the revelation e.g. from غفور الرحيم to  العليم و الحكيم, as all were among of good names of Allah, Prophet preferred not to write them off, therefore will endorse them. Once when Aya

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 was being revealed, he spoke فتبارك الله أحسن الخالقين  ahead of Prophet, which was later revealed by Gabriel too, so Prophet endorsed it too. Abdullah thought Prophet is also fake, there is no Revelation and no prophet hood, so as Mohammad is doing he can also make the similar claims of revelation, he deserted Islam and Medina and went back to Mecca, reverted back to Idolatry and talked bad things about Prophet. He was not pardon by Prophet after the conquest Mecca although Ottoman pleaded number of times for his pardon. Abdullah was never allowed in Medina during Prophet’s life time, neither during the caliph-hood of AbuBakar or Omar. But Ottoman during his regime pardoned him and called him back in Medina and later was made governor of Egypt}.

Ottoman III Caliph was known for his favortism towards his tribe "Bani Ommyia" and his close friends, kins and relatives. History is full of such narrations and episodes. Favoring, pardoning and appointing Abdullah ibni Abi Sarah as governor of Egypt is one glaring example of that.