Section: Some signs of prophethood are established by the Quran or by recurrent mass transmission (tawātur).

We have already cited a number of the signs recorded in the Quran, because certain members of the People of the Book say, “We will only believe what is found in the Quran,” just as the Torah and the Gospel contain the signs of Moses and the Messiah. Since the transmission of the Quran from the Prophet is mutawātir—so widely reported that no one can doubt it—we have pointed out a few of the signs that appear in it, even though the signs that are not mentioned in the Quran are exceedingly many.

It is not a prerequisite for something conveyed by tawātur to be included in the Quran. Just as rulings of his Sacred Law have reached us through tawātur even though they are not written in the Quran—and these are part of the wisdom that Allah sent down to him—so too numerous proofs of his prophethood have been transmitted by tawātur while not appearing in the Quran, and these are among his evidences and signs.

The Exalted has said in several places: “Allah has sent down to you the Book and wisdom” (al-Nisāʾ 4:113). Thus wisdom was revealed to him, and it is transmitted outside the Quran. It has likewise reached the level of tawātur that the prescribed prayers are five, that the dawn prayer consists of two rakʿahs,