and to humble them. He accepted those who believed in him, treated their property, lives, families, and children as inviolable, and accorded them the legal status of Muslims. Among them were the Bedouin woman, the shepherd and shepherdess, the desert boy, the uncivilized man, the East African man, the captive, the East African woman brought from abroad, the Byzantine man and woman, the ignorant fool, and the person of limited understanding.

To none of these, nor to anyone else, did he, peace be upon him, say:

“I will not accept your Islam, nor will your faith be valid, until you establish through evidence the truth of what I call you to.”

He said:

We are not merely saying that no report has reached us that he said this to anyone. Rather, we—and all the people of the earth—affirm with the same certainty we have concerning what we have witnessed that he, peace be upon him, never said this to anyone, nor did he reject anyone’s acceptance of Islam pending their examination of the evidence. All the Companions, from the first to the last, then followed this same course. No one disputes this.

And it is inconceivable