Pre-Modern and Early-Modern Claimants after Muhammad This article applies a Qur’an-only threshold screening framework to selected pre-modern and early-modern claimants who emerged after Muhammad and were reported to have claimed prophethood, divine manifestation, messianic status, new scripture, abrogation of Qur’anic authority, or a new religious dispensation. Purpose The purpose of the article is not to provide full biographies of each claimant. Instead, it presents a concise table-based screening method. The governing principle is that once a claimant fails an essential threshold criterion, the claim collapses at that step and does not require later validation by social influence, political success, number of followers, historical survival, or later community memory. Screening Criteria The article examines each claimant against Qur’an-only collapse points, including post-Qur’anic claims of prophethood, claims of new scripture after the Qur’an, abrogation of Qur’anic authority, lack of Qur’an-loyalty, absence of a specific Qur’anic message, lack of a durable claimant-authored record, and fusion of the claim with power, office, revolt, dynastic authority, or reward-seeking. Scope The article focuses on historical claimants and movements before the contemporary period. It includes Riddah-era figures, medieval and early-modern claimants, movement-level cases, and nineteenth-century figures whose claims involved new revelation or new religious dispensation. Modern and contemporary claimant case studies are reserved for separate detailed articles. Method The article uses a threshold screening table. Each row identifies the claimant or movement, period and region, reported claim, earliest collapse step, and Qur’an-only assessment. Where the reported claim itself includes new prophethood, new scripture, divine embodiment, inherited prophetic office, abrogation of Qur’anic authority, or political-religious domination, the claim is treated as collapsing at that threshold. Scholarly and Archival Context This work is published in the Qur’an Study Zenodo community as a DOI-linked scholarly and archival record. Qur’an Study is not a journal and does not claim ISSN-based periodical status. The article is preserved for citation, scrutiny, correction, comparison, and long-term public access. Citation Ahmed, M. (2026). Pre-Modern and Early-Modern Claimants after Muhammad: A Qur’an-Only Threshold Screening Table. Qur’an Study. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20370502
Mahmoud Ahmed (Mon,) studied this question.