Early Islamic sources portray Muhammad as initially doubting his own prophetic call

Evidence

[Muhammad’s] heart.” He was so confused and troubled by the revelation that he decided to commit suicide by throwing himself off a mountain, but when he went out to do so, he heard a voice from heaven proclaiming “O Muhammad! Thou art the apostle of God and I am Gabriel.” He looked up and saw the angel, “in the form of a man with feet astride the horizon.” He went home, still uncertain of his mission, and told his wife Khadîja what had happened. She told him to rejoice and be of good heart and went to her cousin Waraqa, a learned Christian who, upon hearing the details of Muhammad’s vision, proclaimed that he was indeed “the prophet of this people.” — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 183

Categorization

• XREF: Muhammad’s suicidal despair and confusion over his first revelation is a node later European polemicists (and the Debated Question tradition) invert to claim he was deluded or demonically inspired — direct root source for tropes in the vault’s Anidjar/Aziz claims.