For if anyone had transmitted such a claim in the name of one of the prophets, we would immediately pronounce him a liar against them. How much more, then, when this very statement is not, even in their own records, attributed to any prophet at all; it is merely reported from figures whose words carry no binding authority, for much of their religion is taken from their own leaders, who are not prophets. Thus, if we deem false the person who ascribes it to the prophets, what should be said of the one who does not even trace it back to them? The prophets—peace be upon them—inform people of matters that lie beyond the limits of human understanding, not of things they themselves know to be impossible and false, Thus, they inform people