is false, and that His words:

“Convey what has been revealed to you from your Lord.”

(Surah al-Māidah: 67)

were revealed a long time before the (Farewell) Pilgrimage (1).

The Day of Ghadīr occurred only on the eighteenth of Dhū al-Hijjah, after his return from the pilgrimage, and he lived thereafter for two months and part of a third. One indication of this is that (2) the last passage of al-Māidah to be revealed was the words of Allah Most High:

“Today I have perfected your religion for you and completed My favor upon you.”

(Surah al-Māidah: 3)

This verse was revealed at Arafah on the ninth of Dhū al-Hijjah during the Farewell Pilgrimage, while the Prophet—peace and blessings be upon him—was standing at Arafah, as established in the Sahīh and Sunan collections and as unanimously stated by scholars of Quranic exegesis, hadith, and other disciplines.

Ghadīr Khumm took place on his return to Medina, on the eighteenth of Dhū al-Hijjah, nine days after this verse was revealed. How, then, could His words:

“Convey what has been revealed to you from your Lord.”

(Surah al-Māidah: 67)

have been revealed at that time? There is no disagreement among scholars that this verse was revealed before then. It was among the earliest revelations sent down in Medina, even though it appears in Surah al-Māidah—just as the surah contains the prohibition of intoxicants, although intoxicants were prohibited at an early stage, shortly after the Battle of Uhud.

The surah likewise contains the ruling concerning adjudication among the People of the Scripture, in His words:

“If they come to you, then judge between them or turn away from them.”

(Surah al-Māidah: 42)

This verse was revealed either concerning the prescribed punishment (3), when he stoned the two Jews (4), or concerning adjudication between Qurayzah and al-Nadīr when they sought his judgment in matters of bloodshed. The stoning of the two Jews was the first thing