Medieval Christian polemic fabricated Muhammad expecting a third-day resurrection

Evidence

One of its several nastier absurdities is the notion that Muhammad expected to rise again on the third day after his death; in the Middle Ages this reappeared in the very slightly more reasonable version that he expected his body to be carried to Heaven by angels. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 65

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader theme of how religious othering fabricates false biographical claims, echoing the fashion-moral-panic mechanism of misprojection seen in the immodesty article.
• SEED: An essay on how dead religions’ opponents generate nonsense biographies — Muhammad’s supposed resurrection expectation as a mirror of the charges Christians themselves faced from pagans about Jesus.