and he never left his side, nor did he meet anyone from the People of the Book or anyone else. His other journey, made when he was a grown man, was with a Quraysh caravan; again he did not part from them, and he met none of the People of the Book.

Those who travelled with him reported the People of the Book’s declarations of his prophethood—such as the monk Bahira’s declaration—and the signs they witnessed in him that pointed to his prophethood. For this reason he married