Gabriel and the Prophet

Number of pages: 190 pages

Was there a real person in the life of the Prophet Muhammad before the call to Islam called Dihya al-Kalbi, and did the Prophet see Gabriel in him, embodied in the form of a man of extraordinary beauty? The Arab/Islamic narratives are full of strange stories about the character of Dihya al-Kalbi, some of which manipulate the historical sequence so that he becomes a messenger carrying a message from the Prophet to Heraclius, while other narratives manipulate the logical sequence of events, so that this Dihya becomes one of the men of Yazid bin Muawiyah.

This book discusses a very sensitive religious issue related to the problem of the existence of characters that are the fabrications of narrators, who were able to create a fictional narrative that quickly became part of official history. This book deconstructs false Islamic narratives and confirms that the character of Dihya al-Kalbi is a literary creation from the imagination of narrators and falls within the context of building a tragic character about a heavenly angel who becomes human and then loses his ability to return to heaven.