The prophet-test criteria were tailored in advance to fit Muhammad’s case

Evidence

As in the other cases we have considered; it is obvious that these tests have to some extent been tailored in advance to fit Muhammad’s circumstances. Essentially this is the scheme of Pedro de Alfonso, improved by the addition of the fourth head which distinguished Muhammad’s religious institutions from his personal probity of life or his truthfulness. It sometimes recalls Peter the Venerable’s work, but it ignores that enthusiast’s stressed point that Prophecy means only a foretelling of the future in which Muhammad failed. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 406

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels the vault’s Razack/Aziz point that putatively neutral legal-racial tests of ‘the Muslim’ are pre-tuned to the target; the medieval reprobatio is a prototype of tailored exclusionary criteria.
• SEED: An essay comparing medieval reprobatio tests for false prophets with modern legal tests for the ‘radicalized’ or ‘illiberal’ Muslim subject as both are criteria tailored in advance to a predetermined verdict.