Hammām reported: Basṭām b. Muslim told me that Muʿāwiyah b. Qurrah said, “We were discussing what had become of that scroll when Shahr b. Hawshab happened to pass by, so we called him over. He said, ‘You have come to one who knows: the scroll was in the keeping of Kaʿb. When Kaʿb was on his death-bed he said, “Is there a man I can trust with a deposit that he will duly deliver?”’ Shahr continued, ‘A cousin of mine, known by the kunyah Abū Labīd, said, “I will.” Kaʿb handed the scroll to him and said, “When you reach such-and-such a place, board a qurqūr (a skiff) and cast it into the sea.” My cousin did so: the water parted, he threw it in, and then returned to Kaʿb and told him. Kaʿb said, “You have done rightly; it was part of the Torah that Allah revealed.”’ (1)

Among accounts of this kind are those concerning Umayyah b. Abī al-Ṣalt al-Thaqafī; we shall mention a few of them.

Al-Zubayr b. Bakkār said: My uncle Muṣʿab related to me, from Muṣʿab b. ʿUthmān, who said: Umayyah had studied the scriptures, read them, and wore coarse haircloth in devotion. He used to speak of Abraham, Ishmael, and the ḥanīfiyyah, and he forbade wine and idols. He sought the true religion and coveted prophethood, for he had read in the scriptures that a prophet would be raised from among the Arabs, and he hoped to be that man. When Allah sent Muhammad ﷺ it was said to him, “This is the one you used to herald and speak about.” But the enemy of Allah envied him and said, “I had hoped to be that prophet.” Concerning him Allah revealed (2):
“Recite to them the story of the one to whom We gave Our signs, but he cast them off; so Satan pursued him, and he became one of the deviant.” (Al-Aʿrāf 7:175)

He is the one who said:
“Every creed that stands before Allah on the Day of Resurrection—
save the creed of the ḥanīfiyyah (pure monotheism)—is false.”