Herein we conclude, from a series found here, gleaning from Dr. William Campbell’s book The Qur’an and the Bible in the light of history and science and will conclude that, ironically, if we trust the Qur’an aka Koran then we can be certain that 1) the Bible is accurate and 2) the Qur’an is discredited. To see how such an odd conclusion plays out, read on.
There are also evidences of “The Integrity of the Bible according to the Hadith:
Mishkat al-Masabih, Book I, Ch. VI:
Abu Huraira reported God’s messenger as saying, “In the last days there will be lying dajjals who will bring you traditions of which neither you nor your fathers have heard, so beware of them. They will neither lead you astray nor seduce you.” Muslim transmitted it.
He also said that the people of the Book used to read the Torah in Hebrew and expound it in Arabic to the Muslims, so God’s messenger said, “Neither believe nor disbelieve the people of the Book, but say,
Say (O Muslims): We believe in Allah and that which is revealed unto Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the tribes, and that which Moses and Jesus received, and that which the Prophets received from their Lord. We make no distinction between any of them, and unto Him we have surrendered.” (Qur’an 2:136) Bukhari transmitted it.
Mishkat al-Masabih, Book VIII, ch. I, p. 454: Book I, ch. VI, p. 49; Book XX, ch. I, p. 892:
Abu Huraira told that when God’s messenger once asked Ubai b. Ka’b how he recited in the course of the prayer and he recited Umm al-Qur’an, he said, “By Him in whose hand my soul is, nothing like it has been sent down in the Torah, the Injl, the Testament Zabr, or the Qur’an and it is seven of the oft-repeated verses and mighty Qur’an which I have been given.” Tirmidhi transmitted it…
Jabir told how ‘Umar b. al-Khattab brought God’s messenger a copy of the Torah saying, “Messenger of God, this is a copy of the Torah.” When he received no reply he began to read to the obvious displeasure of God’s messenger, so Abu Bakr said, “Confound you, do you not see how God’s messenger is looking?” So ‘Umar looked at God’s messenger’s face and said, “I seek refuge in God from the anger of God and His messenger. We are satisfied with God as Lord, with Islam as religion, and with Muhammad as Prophet.” Then God’s messenger said, “By Him in whose hand Muhammad’s soul is, were Moses to appear to you and you were to follow him and abandon me, you would err from the right way. Were he alive and came in touch with my prophetic mission he would follow me.” Darimi transmitted it.
Mishkat al-Masabih, Book XXVI, ch. XXXIX, pp. 1371, 1372:
Khaithama b. Abu Sabra said: I came to Medina and asked God to grant me a good companion to sit with and He granted me Abu Huraira. I sat with him and told him I had asked God to grant me a good companion to sit with and that he suited me. He asked where I came from and I replied that I belonged to al-Kufa and had come desiring and seeking good. He then said, “Do you not have among you Sa’d b. Malik whose prayers are answered, Ibn Mas’ud who looked after God’s messenger’s water for ablution and his sandals, Hudhaifa who was God’s messenger’s confident, ‘Ammar to whom God gave protection from the devil at the tongue of His Prophet, and Salman who was a believer in the two Books? meaning the Injil and the Qur’an. Tirmidhi translated it.
Mishkat al-Masabih, Book II, ch. I, pp. 62,63:
Ziyad b. Labid said: The Prophet mentioned a matter, saying, “that will be at the time when knowledge departs.” I asked, “How can knowledge depart when we recite the Qur’an and teach it to our children and they will teach it to their children up till the Day of Resurrection?” He replied, “I am astonished at you, Ziyad. I thought you were the most learned man in Medina. Do not these Jews and Christians read the Torah and the Injil without knowing a thing about their contents?” Ahmad and Ibn Majah transmitted it, Tirmidhi transmitted something similar from him, as did Darimi from Abu Umama.
Mishkat al-Masabih, book VI, ch. XLIII, p. 285:
Abu Huraira said: I went out to at-Tur and met Ka’b al-Ahbar with whom I sat, he telling me about the Torah and I telling him about God’s messenger. One of the things I told him was that God’s messenger had said, “The best day on which the sun has risen is Friday; on it his repentance was accepted, on it he died, on it the last hour will come, on Friday every beast is on the outlook from dawn to sunrise from the last hour, but not jinn and men, and it contains a time at which no Muslim will pray and ask anything from God without His giving him it.” Ka’b said that was one day every year, but when I insisted that it was on every Friday Ka’b read the Torah and said that God’s messenger had spoken the truth. Abu Huraira said” I met ‘Abdallah b. Salam and told him of my meeting with Ka’b al-Ahbar and of what I had told him about Friday, telling him that Ka’b had said that was one day every year. ‘Abdallah b. Salam said that Ka’b had lied, but when I told him that Ka’b afterwards read the Torah and said that it was every Friday he said that Ka’b had spoken the truth…
Malik, Abu Dawud, Tirmidhi and Nisa’i transmitted it, and Ahmad transmitted it up to the statement that Ka’b had spoken the truth.
Mishkat al-Masabih cites several traditions (Book XXVI, Ch. XVIII, pp. 1232, 1233 and ch. XIX, p. 1244) “which indicate that the Torah prophesies the coming of Muhammad”:
‘Ata b. Yasar told that he met ‘Abdallah b. ‘Amr b. al-As and asked him to inform him of the description of God’s messenger given in the Torah. He agreed, swearing by God that he was certainly described in the Torah by part of the description of him given in the Qur’an when it says, “O prophet, We have sent you as a witness, a bearer of good tidings, and a warner, and a guard for the common people. [From Al-Ahzab 33:45 up to here. The following is from the Torah-Old Testament, Isaiah 42:1-3,6-7] You are my servant and my messenger; I have called you the one who trusts, not harsh or rough, nor loud-voiced in the streets. He will not repulse evil with evil, but will pardon and forgive, and God will not take him till He uses him to straighten the crooked creed so that people may say there is no god but God, and he opens thereby blind eyes, deaf ears and hardened hearts.
Bukhari transmitted it, and Darimi also gives something to the same effect on the authority of ‘Ata who gave as his authority Ibn Salam.
Anas told that when a young Jew who was a servant of the Prophet became ill, he went to visit him and found his father sitting by his head reciting the Torah. God’s messenger said to him, “I adjure you, Jew, by God who sent down the Torah to Moses, do you find in the Torah any description of me, or anything about my coming forth?” On his replying that he did not, the young man said, “Certainly, messenger of God, I swear by God that we do find in the Torah an account and description of you and a statement about your coming forth, and I testify that there is no god but God and that you are God’s messenger.” The Prophet then said to his companions. “Remove this man from beside his head and look after your brother.”
Baihaqi transmitted it in Dala’il al-Nubuwa.
Mishkat al-Masabih, Book XVI, ch. I, p. 758:
‘Abdallah b. Umar told that the Jews came to God’s messenger and mentioned to him that a man and a woman of their number had committed fornication. He asked them what they found in the Torah about stoning and they replied that they should disgrace them and that they should be beaten.
‘Abdallah b. Salam then said, “You lie; it contains instruction that they should be stoned to death, so bring the Torah.” They spread it out, and one of them put his hand over the verse of stoning and read what preceded it and what followed it. ‘Abdallah b. Salam told him to lift his hand and when he did so the verse of stoning was seen to be in it.
They then said, “He has spoken the truth, Muhammad; the verse of stoning is in it.” The Prophet then gave command regarding them and they were stoned to death. In another version it says that he told him to lift his hand and that when he did so, the verse of stoning was clearly in it. The man then said, “It contains the verse of stoning, Muhammad, but we have been concealing it from one another.” He then gave command regarding them and they were stoned to death. (Bukhari and Muslim.)
Mishkat al-Masabih, Book XIII, ch. III, p. 667:
‘Umar b. al-Khattab and Anas b. Malik reported God’s messenger as saying that it is written in the Torah. “If anyone does not give his daughter in marriage when she reaches twelve and she commits sin, the guilt of that rests on him.” Baihaqi transmitted both traditions in Shu’ab al-iman.
Mishkat al-Masabih, Book XVII, chap. III, P. 795:
Sa’id b. al-Musayyib told that a Muslim and a Jew brought a dispute before ‘Umar, and as he considered the Jew was in the right he pronounced judgement in his favor; but when the Jew said, “I swear by God that you have pronounced just judgement” he struck him with the whip and asked him what caused him to know that.
The Jew replied, “I swear by God that we find in the Torah that no qadi judges rightly without having an angel at his right hand and an angel at his left who direct him and dispose him to what is right as long as he adheres to the right; but when he abandons the right, they ascend and leave him.” Malik transmitted it.
We are told that “The second one is reported by Darimi in Sunan, Muqaddima 56. Abbad ben Abbad Abu Ataba quotes a letter of Omar ben Al-Khattab as saying”:
If the doctors and the monks had not feared the disappearance of their ranks and the destruction of their prestige by the observance of the Scripture and expounding it (correctly), they would not have falsified (harrafu) or hidden (katamu) it. But as they went against the Scripture by their acts, they tried to fool the people about what they had done. Fearing the destruction of their prestige and that their corruption would be revealed to men, they falsified (harrafu) the Scripture by their interpretation, and what they could not falsify they hid (katamu). They were silent about their acts in order to keep their prestige and they were silent about the acts of their people acting in complicity. And truly God made a covenant with those to whom the Scripture came that they should make it known to the people an d not hide it, but they deceived with it and were accommodating to themselves with it.
Sunan Abu Dawud, Book 38 (Kitab al Hudud, ie. Prescribed Punishments), Number 4434 states:
Narrated Abdullah Ibn Umar:
A group of Jews came and invited the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) 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 Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) 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.
He then said: Bring me one who is learned among you. Then a young man was brought. The transmitter then mentioned the rest of the tradition of stoning similar to the one transmitted by Malik from Nafi’ (No. 4431).”
William Campbell wraps it up by stating that “From this hadith we learn the following lessons”:
1. That prophet Muhammad had an authentic copy of the Torah which was widely used in his times … The Jews did not protest that Muhammad’s copy was any different than their own. In fact, it probably was a copy from the Jews, since Muhammad or the Arabs could not read it themselves. This copy was God’s infallible word. There was no corruption in the Scriptures, Allah’s inerrant Word. (cf.Yunus 94)
2. The very fact that he called the Scripture for reference should be an example to every Muslim today. We notice that the prophet withdrew the cushion from beneath him and put the Torah on it. This is how every devout Muslim should treat Allah’s holy Scriptures.
3. The very fact that the prophet said, “I believed in thee and in Him Who revealed thee” should be an exhortation to all of us to believe in all the Bible, following his example. Don’t get silly on me and say, “But Timothy, we don’t have the authentic original Torah”. Do you know better than prophet Muhammad? He himself asserted his belief in the Holy Scriptures which were handed down from generation to generation, until his own time. And that our scriptures are faithful copies of those at Muhammad’s time is easy to demonstrate with archeological and manuscript evidence.