Editing Musaylima (section)

==Etymology==
Musaylima's actual name was ''[[Maslama]]'', but Muslims altered his name to Musaylima, which is the [[diminutive]] of Maslama (i.e., 'Little Maslama').<ref name=":0">{{cite news|url=http://elaph.com/Web/Culture/2015/1/973971.html|title=مسلمة الحنفي في ميزان التاريخ لجمال علي الحلاّق|publisher=Elaph|language=Arabic|date=14 January 2015|access-date=20 September 2017}}</ref> The name ''maslama'' contains an Arabic or Syriac participal-nominal substratum like ''muslim'' (submitter). Maslama may be a title derived from ''aslam'' which is a verb associated with prophethood.<ref>{{Cite book |last=El-Badawi |first=Emran |author-link=Emran El-Badawi |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Qur_an_and_the_Aramaic_Gospel_Tradit/iIhiAgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA72&printsec=frontcover |title=The Qur'an and the Aramaic Gospel Traditions |date=2013-12-17 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-92933-8 |language=en}}</ref>