Medieval anti-Muslim legend fused pig, Jew, and angelic-ascension motifs into one cautionary tale

Evidence

San Pedro knew, and wanted to believe, a ‘Christian’ version of the death of Muhammad which most ingeniously reconciles several improbable stories. A cunning Jewess, whom Muhammad desired, insisted that he should come to her bed alone, by night. When he did so her relatives killed him, cut off his left foot, threw the rest of his body to the pigs, who quickly devoured it. The woman anointed and scented the foot, explaining to people who came to fetch Muhammad that angels had come to carry him off to Heaven. She had pulled him back by the foot, which, after a tug-of-war with the celestial powers, was all of the Prophet that remained. With its curious circumstantiality this story combines the pig and Jew motifs, and also that of an angelic ascension into Heaven, which the Prophet was often supposed to have expected his body would experience. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 606

Categorization

• XREF: The simultaneous conflation of the Jewess and the Prophet as mutual contaminators speaks directly to Anidjar’s Jew-Arab enemy genealogy in the vault.
• QUESTION: Why the Jewess specifically as the agent of Muhammad’s destruction here - worth tracing whether this Christian ‘mi’raj parody’ predates or parallels later European constructions.