@DazidSpore24...........

Try these questions......

1/ No record of Muhammad’s reported death in 632 appears until more than a century after that date.

Why ?

2/ A Christian account, apparently dating from the mid 630’s speaks of an un-named Arab prophet “armed with a sword” who seems to be still alive.

This is the Doctrina Jacobi, a Christian text written in or about 640 CE.
It describes a Jewish discussion set in 634, in which a letter by a Palestinian Jew with the name Abraham is read.

“We Jews are full of joy. They say that a prophet has appeared among the Saracens, and that he proclaims the advent of the anointed one, the Messiah who is to come. When I, Abraham, had gone to Sykamina, I consulted an old man well-versed in the Scriptures on this matter, asking: 'What is your opinion, my master and teacher, on this prophet who has appeared among the Saracens?'
With a mighty sigh, he replied: 'He is an impostor. Prophets don't come with sword and chariot. Truly the events of today are the works of disorder. I fear that the Messiah that came first, the one that is worshipped by the Christians, was indeed sent by God, and that we will be found by the Devil. Didn't Isaiah say that we, Jews, 'are to have a heart of stone full of errors until the end of the world'? But go now, master Abraham, and find out for yourself about this prophet.
Searching and toiling, I, Abraham, was learned from people who had met him: 'You won't find any truth in this prophet, only bloodshed; for he says he possesses the keys of paradise, which is incredible.' “

If this is a reference to Mohammed it appears that he did not die in 632 and we are missing some Quranic verses dealing with the “Keys of Paradise” as well as his (Mohammad’s) messianic properties.

3/ The early accounts written by the peoples the Arabs conquered NEVER mention :
a) Islam
b) Muhammad
c) the Qur’an

The conquerors themselves are, variously, called:
e) Ishmaelites
f) Saracens
g) Muhajirun
h) Hagarians

But NEVER Muslims.

Why ? ( The first written reference to “Muslims” may be by the Coptic Christian Bishop John of Nikiou in the 690’s.)

4/ The Arab conquerors themselves, in their coins and inscriptions, don’t mention Islam or the Qur’an for more than half a century (60 years) after the start of their campaigns of expansion.

Why ?
If the impetus for the sudden Arab expansion was religious fervour ,why so reticent.

5/ The Qur’an, even by the canonical Muslim account, was not distributed in its present form until the 650’s.
Contradicting this standard account is the fact that neither the Arabians nor the Christians nor the Jews in the region even mention the Qur’an until the early eighth century.

Why ?
If the sudden appearance of “the perfect book” was part of this “awakening” why no mention of the great revelation.

So , perhaps something a bit off with the traditional story of Islam.

6/ Only in the 690’s do we begin to hear about Muhammad, the prophet of Islam and about Islam itself. This was during the reign of the caliph Abd al-Malik. Coins and inscriptions reflecting Islamic beliefs begin to appear at this time also.

Why ,
where are the earlier inscriptions declaring the “new management” where are the triumphal shouts about the Seal of the Prophets ,Gods chosen and his unstoppable victories …. Its all strangely silent

7/ At about the same time, Arabic becomes the predominant written language of the Arabian Empire, supplanting Syriac and Greek.

Fair enough , the new management putting its seal on the way things are going to be done.

8/ Abd al-Malik claimed, in a passing remark in one hadith , to have collected the Qur’an .

This contradicts the Islamic tradition that the collection was the work of the caliph Uthman, forty years earlier.

Depending upon which Hadith you choose to read the the Quran was compiled up to three times. First by Zayd ibn Thabit on the orders of Abu Bakr then again on the orders of the Caliph Uthman , and/or maybe again later by Hajjaj ibn Yusuf on the orders Abd al-Malik.

9/ Multiple hadiths report that Hajjaj ibn Yusuf, governor of Iraq during the reign of Abd al Malik , edited the Qur’an and distributed his new edition to the various Arab controlled provinces – again something Uthman is supposed to have done decades earlier.

“edited the Qur’an ?” what price the unaltered book ?

10/ Even some Islamic traditions maintain that certain, common Islamic practices, such as the recitation of the Qur’an during mosque prayers, date from the orders of Hajjaj ibn Yusuf and not to the earliest period of Islamic history.

What is this ? Attempts to unify the religious/cultural practices of a burgeoning empire?.

11/ In the middle of the eighth century ,the Abbasid dynasty supplanted the Umayyad line of Abd al-Malik. The Abbasids charged the Umayyads with impiety on a large scale.
In the Abbasid period , biographical material about Mohammad began to proliferate.
The first complete biography of the prophet of Islam finally appeared during this era – at least 125 years after the traditional date of his death.

Could it be that this Abbasid period represents the true birth of Islam … created by a powerful political Caliph and imposed in order to unify his growing and disparate empire. ( similar reasons to Constantine’s for the imposition of Christianity)

12/ The biographical material that emerged situates Muhammad in an area of Arabia that NEVER was the centre for trade and pilgrimage that the canonical Islamic account of Islams origins depends on it to be.

Check out a map …
why would anyone with precious goods to transport choose a route that :

1/ risks interception by desert raiders .

2/ skirts the “empty quarter” .

3/then edges along the “Nefud” to transport goods of any value.

While there are two easier and arguably safer sea routes ,one to the west (Egypt ,Byzantium and the wider Mediteranean. The other to the east ( Sassanid Persia and the greater Levant).

Just questions.......... but ,still demanding of answers.....

Then there is this......

Two Muhammads and two Qurans?

Muhammad was like two different persons at two different times and the Quran is like two contradictory books
pasted together.
Muhammad as ruler of Medina had a strikingly different character than when he was the prophet of Mecca.
The Quranic verses he penned in Mecca often contradict the verses he wrote in Medina.

(1) In Mecca, Muhammad preached and exhorted people to submit to Islam. In Medina, he used the threat of the
sword to compel people to convert to Islam.

(According to the Medina verses, Allah accepts converts who do not believe in him inwardly, but will kneel to him
outwardly under threat of death. Muhammad did not have this view of Allah until he became a war lord and used
force to compel people to accept his rule.)

(2) In Mecca, Muhammad led the life of a teacher and prophet and followed disciplines of prayer, fasting, and
worship. In Medina, he was the political ruler and the military commander. During his ten years in Medina, he
personally led 27 military attacks. Prior to his death, he conquered most of the Arabian peninsula.

(3) In Mecca, Muhammad had one wife. During his last ten years of his life at Medina, he married twelve more
women.

(The poor family man of Mecca became the wealthy, voluptuous sheik with a harem of "wives" in Medina.
Polygamy and harem culture debases women and makes men hedonistic and narcissistic. Societies that
sanction polygamy, harems, and concubines have always assigned a low status to women.)

(The Medina Quran's heaven for men is a garden paradise where every male sensual pleasure is catered to by
nubile nymphs--just as every sensual pleasure of Muhammad, as the voluptuous sheik of a harem, was
indulged. The Medina Allah is a God for men. Goldmann says Muslim women have a hard time getting into
paradise.)

(4) In Mecca, Muhammad fought against idol worship. In doing so, he exempted Christians and Jews from his
proscriptions and persecutions and respected them as "people of the book." In Medina, he persecuted
Christians and Jews as infidels.

(Christians and Jews in Islamic countries never know when they will be protected and respected or persecuted
and reviled. The situation is often fluid so that protection can suddenly gives way to persecution. Historically, the
best Christians and Jews can hope for under Muslim rule is second class citizenship and heavy taxes from
which Muslims are exempt. When jihad and war lord sensibilities were in the air, Christians and Jews often
faced forced conversion, banishment, slavery, sexual bondage, or death.)

The Medinan suras or Medinan chapters of the Qur'an are the latest 24 suras that, according to Islamic tradition, were revealed at Medina after Muhammad's hijra from Mecca. These suras were revealed by Allah when the Muslim community was larger and more developed, as opposed to their minority position in Mecca.
The Medinan suras occur mostly at the beginning and in the middle of the Qur'an (but are said to be the last revealed suras chronologically), and typically have more and longer ayat (verses). Due to the new circumstances of the early Muslim community in Medina, these suras more often deal with details of moral principles, legislation, warfare (as in sura 2, al-Baqara), and principles for constituting and ordering the community. They also refer more often to the community with "O people!" and at times directly address Muhammad or speak of him as "an agent acting in combination with the divine persona: 'God and his messenger'

The 30 suras of the Medinan period, according to Noldeke (chronologically 91-114):
2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 13, 22, 24, 33, 47, 48, 49, 55, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 76, 98, 110

Sorry this is a bit "messy"....this is from my notes.....needs polishing....but may give you a starting point.