Gabriel: "Read" or "Recite?"

BMZ, please follow the dots:

Dot One:  From Mishmish

"In the instances of the Hadith you site, the Prophet(PBUH) was sending letters to the leaders of neighboring countries, getting married, etc... all that would have been sufficient would have been His mark, or signature.  The Hadiths do not state that the Prophet(PBUH) wrote a manuscript or novel."

Dot Two:  From George

"I am really shocked that the Muslims didn't keep any scraps of what Muhammad wrote; even if it was an X."  I was picking up on what Mishmish said.  Muhammad "wrote" letters.  Obviously, if he couldn't write, he would have a secretary write the letters, but he did make his mark.  BMZ, Muhammad was a very intelligent man and I am sure that he could understand the principle of making a mark on his letters to make them authentic.

Dot Three:  From BMZ

There you get the answer. He did not even know how to write an X.

Apparently someone (Mishmish and those who wrote the Hadiths)  thinks that your prophet could write a "X" on documents and letters.

From George:

"I am also shocked that the Qur'an that his daughter used was destroyed."

From BMZ:

"I am also very shocked to hear that: "the Qur'aan that his daughter used was destroyed."  Her "Qur'aan" was her living father, the Prophet.  There was no compiled Qur'aan in the form of a book when she was alive.  She died within six months after her father's death. I think she was only 19 when she passed away."

From George: I was speaking of Hafsa's Qur'anic documents, whether daughter, wife or whomever.

If I were a Muslim it would not bother me if my prophet could read or write.