had only worthless conjuring tricks, that his falsehood stood exposed from many different angles, and that Abu Bakr al-Ṣiddīq and the rest of the Companions fought him because of his lying claim to prophethood, while they fought his tribe for their apostasy from Islam and for following a bogus prophet—they did not go to war with them because they withheld the zakat from Abu Bakr.

The same applies to al-Aswad al-ʿAnsī, who claimed prophethood during the lifetime of the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—and was killed before the Prophet passed away; the falsehood of each of those two men is a matter of common knowledge.