prophethood and messengership, such as Musaylima, al-Ansī, al-Thaqafī, and others of whom Allah Most High says:

“Who does greater wrong than someone who fabricates a lie against Allah or says, ‘Revelation has come to me,’ when nothing has been revealed to him?” [al-Anʿām 93]

Others have claimed to be allies of Allah Most High and among those close to Him and specially favored by Him, as do the heretics among the Qarmatians, Bātiniyya, Rāfidah, Ittihādiyya, and others like them who