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    Compact with the Christians of Najran was a corruption of the original Covenant given by the Prophet to the Christians of that region. The Covenant of the Prophet Mu ammad that was issued on Monday 29 Rab al-Th n A 4 ah has four recensions. Cheikho’s recension is very similar ;6 : ; 259 al-Bal dhur , The Origins of the Islamic State, x64–5, 99. : ;
    However, even if we were to accept Ibn Is A:q’s account that the Christians of Najran may have visited the Prophet in Makka, the Islamic sources, in contrast to the Exordium, do not at any point depict any kind of close friendship between them and the Muslims.
    Najrani Jewish-Christians who met with the Prophet when he first began preaching in Makka. Also, it is plausible that some Arab Jewish-Christians were formally members of the Nestorian community, even if there needs to be more solid evidence for this theory to become readily accepted. DID THE COVENANT REPLACE AN EXISTING TREATY OF ALLIANCE?
    These texts have generally been dismissed as forgeries or of dubious origins, alike by Muslim and Christian scholars. Addai Scher, editor and translator of The Chronicle of Seert clearly states in a footnote that the Covenant with the Najrani Christians ‘is certainly apocryphal. It was forged by Christians so that the Muslims would spare them.