elsewhere that the event was in fact based in the earliest stories about his life. The most authoritative collection of hadith (which we will reference throughout), known as Sahih Al-Bukhari, narrates7 that when Muhammad prostrated while reciting Surah An-Najm—Surah 53, the same one in which the alleged Satan-inspired verses were first inserted—“with him prostrated the Muslims, the pagans, the jinns, and all human beings.” Why would the pagans also bow down in the very same way mentioned above?