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Does the Quran say to follow the Bible?

 


Does the Quran say to follow the Bible?



Critics use 5:68 to support their claim:


“Say, "O People of the Scripture, you are [standing] on nothing until you uphold [the law of] the Torah, the Gospel, and what has been revealed to you from your Lord [i.e., the Qur’ān]." And that which has been revealed to you from your Lord will surely increase many of them in transgression and disbelief. So do not grieve over the disbelieving people.


  • Saheeh International



Now first off, it says AND WHAT HAS BEEN REVEALED TO YOU FROM YOUR LORD. Which would entail the Quran. So the jews and Christian’s have nothing unless they abide by the Quran and previous scriptures.



Now the pervouse scriptures are the Injeel and the Tawrat. Which is the original scriptures that was revealed to Moses and Jesus peace be upon them.  


This can't be referring to the New and Old Testament of today because, Jesus got the revelation during his time as we see in this verse: 


[The Day] when Allah will say, "O Jesus, Son of Mary, remember My favor upon you and upon your mother when I supported you with the Pure Spirit [i.e., the angel Gabriel] and you spoke to the people in the cradle and in maturity; and [remember] when I taught you writing and wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel; and when you designed from clay [what was] like the form of a bird with My permission, then you breathed into it, and it became a bird with My permission; and you healed the blind [from birth] and the leper with My permission; and when you brought forth the dead with My permission; and when I restrained the Children of Israel from [killing] you when you came to them with clear proofs and those who disbelieved among them said, "This is not but obvious magic."


  • 5:110



As you read the verse. Allah is recapping the things that happen in Jesus’s life. And in the verse it clearly says when Allah taught him the Injeel (original gospel),  in other words he revealed the Injeel to him during his life. 


We know according to Christianity , that Jesus did not have a Gospel with him during his life and the New Testament was written after his resurrection on the third day. 


Therefore the Injeel is not the new testament of today. They are 2 separate books, the New Testament is the corrupted version of the Injeel.


So when Allah is talking about the Injeel ( the original gospel revealed to Jesus) it's not talking about the New Testament. Same applies to the Old Testament and the Tawarat. 


In this hadith, the Jews left the original Tawrat and followed a new book. ie: the Old Testament of today ( corrupted Torah ):


On the authority of Abu Musa, may God be pleased with him, “The Children of Israel wrote a book, so they followed it and left the Torah


  • Sunan Al-Darimi 497


Key terms: 


Injeel= original Gospel

New Testament=corrupted Gospel

Tawrat= original Torah

Old Testament= corrupted Torah 




Other arguments related to this subject:



The Prophet Muhammed judged by the corrupted Torah once in a hadith:



Narrated Abdullah Ibn Umar:

A group of Jews came and invited the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) to Quff. So he visited them in their school. 

They said: AbulQasim, one of our men has committed fornication with a woman; so pronounce judgment upon them. They placed a cushion for the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) who sat on it and said: Bring the Torah. It was then brought. He then withdrew the cushion from beneath him and placed the Torah on it saying: I believed in thee and in Him Who revealed thee.


  • Sunan Abi Dawud 4449




Now it's graded hassan. But is it really hassan? Let’s go to the chain of narration for this Hadith. 



One of the narrators is “Hisham ibn Saad”.

He is weakened by many scholars such as:



“Yahya bin ma'in said he has weakness. 

Ahmed said: da’if (weak).

 Abu hatim said: he and ibn Ishaq are one for me (if he says and that he says in this hadith the hadith automatically is da’if (weak).

 Ibn Ady said: he has weakness.

 Nasai said : da’if (weak).

Al-Dhahabi said:  conclude that he is da’if (weak)”


  • Siyar a'lam al-nubalaa volume 7 page 344-345



As you can see there is a weak narrator in the chain, therefore the hadith is weak. 




Conclusion: The Quran doesn’t say to follow the corrupted scriptures  such as the Bible that we have today and the Prophet himself didn't say he believed in the corrupted version of the Torah. 



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