Early Christian polemicists accused Muhammad of fraud committed with a renegade monk

Evidence

It seemed likely, not only that the Bahira of Muslim legend was the same as the Christian apostate whom Muhammad, in Christian legend, customarily consulted, but also that Islamic sources betrayed the hidden truth when they spoke of Muhammad’s retirement from the world just before the first revelation, in the hills around Mecca - this suggested that the time was really spent with the renegade, secretly preparing the details of the fraud. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1314

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the medieval Christian anti-Islamic polemic tradition, parallel to Crusades-era polemics in the library’s religious-controversy interests. — connects to: Medieval legends credited Muhammad’s revelations to a heretical monk; Christian polemicists explained Muhammad’s prophethood as a fraudulent bid for kingship
• QUESTION: What was San Pedro’s actual first name and work here? The text stays anonymous — worth pinning down for follow-up.