- “Having located the spot called the Holy of Holies, they [the jews] constructed there a place of prayer for themselves with the foundations and superstructure. But the Ishmaelites, envious of them, expelled them from that spot and called the same building their own place of prayer. They (the Jews) erected elsewhere another place for their worship.” As the Muslims were with the Christians, so were they with the Jews. There was a form of intolerance in the early Muslims that would not be found in an ecumenical movement. — He also says: “He legislated (awrinadre) for them not to eat carrion (v.3), not to drink wine (ii.219, v.90), not to speak falsely (xxxix.3, xvi.116, xxxiii.24 etc.) and not to commit fornication (xvii.32, xxiv.2).” Interestingly Sebeos is not aware of any difference in commandments. He is only aware of this as a general prohibition which applied to all those who professed his faith. Sebeos has elsewhere shown to be extremely accurate and knowledgeable about the early Muslims, even mentioning the different ruling factions and yet he shows NO awareness of this ecumenical Islam movement
- For why Pseudo-Sabeos is dated to 660s:
