A medieval chronicler depicted Muhammad’s death as divinely ordained swine-consumption

Evidence

Let us now recount the end of this great and marvelous law-giver. I have already said that he was subject to attacks of epilepsy: one day as he was walking alone, he fell attacked by one of his convulsions, and while he was being tormented by it, some hogs, having come upon him, so completely devoured him that only his heels were found as remains. So thus this excellent law-giver is given over to the swine and eaten by them, so his evil rule was terminated as just, by a most vile end. And certainly, while his heels were left, it was without a doubt so that he could show those fools whom he had miserably seduced a witness of his perfidiousness and deceits. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 100

Categorization

• FICTION: The specific grotesque detail — hogs devouring a prophet so only his heels remain, heels saved to prove his fraud — is vivid worldbuilding material for a story about how lies about a founder calcify into scripture.
• SEED: The image of the false prophet consumed by swine as a recurring European icon — early instance of the ‘false teacher meets ignominious end’ genre.
• XREF: connects to: Medieval polemic assigned Muhammad a death by pigs reflecting his supposed teaching of uncleanness