He might have been the historical person behind the Islamic legends of Iyas ibn Qabisa and/or an amalgamated [[muhammad]]'s central character whose Ishmaelite paternal Grandfather was Halakhically Jewish, which if true would have meant that Mehmet would have been considered Zera Israel (Bani Israel in Arabic). However, the same legends describe that he was married by Warakah to Khadijah before Warakah became a Nasrani and that he practiced as a Gnostic (Hanif) in the cells of Al-Hira where he met Dihyah's father Khalifah Gabriel al-Kalbi who convinced him to become a Noahite Gnostic. He was supported by [[the Bakr family]] and converted the [[Quraysh]] but in the end, he was criticized him for "corrupting" Gnosticism and seems to have been murdered by Aisha of the Bakr family.
After his death, Mehmet was promoted by his Pahlavi subjects as "MḤMT' PTGMBI Y YZDT" and probably by many Gnostic Christians as the return of Mahmed Mahmad being part of the Gnostic Christian Rasul (tripartite Jesus). Although Their opinion eventually stuck despite such fanatics were being opposed in [[the Quraysh Quran]] which said no one is Muhammad or Jesus but Thanksgiving (ahmed), their opinion eventually stuck.
