Give me a verse that Muhammad (phub) was born in Petra.
Again, your stupid evidence did not prove me that Makkah was not historical. Petra sounds like a unpopular area in southern Jordan. No top Islamic scholars or Salafi said about Muhammad (phub) and Petra.
Also, we have old hadith like Muwatta Malik mentioned about Mecca many times. That was around 700 CE, but oral hadith were memorized since Islam was born.
You just looked the hadiths that were written in 900 CE, but what about oral hadiths?
UPDATE FROM OSAMA ABDALLAH:
"You just looked the hadiths that were written in 900 CE, but what about oral hadiths?"
Dear brother Albarra, I am afraid that your last statement makes it sound like he has HADITHS (sayings of the Prophet) that were written around year 900 AD/CE that actually say Petra was indeed Mecca. I just want to make it clear to the reader that such Hadiths do not exist. Your statement was referring to the alleged maps that he was talking about. And of course his statement is very stupid, because Mecca did ACTUALLY EXIST in 900 and 800 and 700 and 600 and thousands of years before! But at the very least, we know that it existed before 900 AD, whether there was a map drawn for it or not. People lived there and it was always called MECCA, and Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, was born there, and his entire sub-tribe Hashim and entire tribe Quraysh were the inhabitants of Mecca. And the House of GOD Almighty that was built by Abraham and Ishmael, peace be upon them, was already there.
Just wanted to clarify that. Jazaka Allah Khayr.