, as well as al-Jāḥiẓ, the judge al-Māwardī, the jurist Sulaym al-Rāzī, and others. In the books they compiled are hadith reports that set forth the signs of his prophethood and the proofs of his messengership—reports that outnumber many times over the narrations transmitted about events that are themselves mass-reported from him, such as the Farewell Pilgrimage, the ʿUmrah of al-Hudaybiyyah, the idol-worshippers’ obstruction of his way, and the truce he concluded with them.