He therefore laid bare the slander that some of them had concocted, namely their claim: “It is only a human being who is teaching him this Quran.” There was, in Mecca, a non-Arab client of one of the clans of Quraysh—some say he was the client of the Banu al-Hadrami—yet the Prophet could not speak that non-Arab man's language, and that man, for his part, was incapable of articulating this eloquent Arabic discourse. Thus, when they alleged, “He has fabricated it …”