On the Qur'anic Accusation of Scriptural Falsification (Tahrif) and Christian Anti-Jewish Polemic (Report‪)‬

According to the fully articulated salvation history of Islam, Moses and Jesus (like all prophets) were Muslims. Moses received an Islamic scripture, the Torah (tawrat), as did Jesus, the Gospel (injil). Their communities, however, suppressed their religion and altered their scriptures. Accordingly, a canonical hadith has the Prophet Muhammad declare: This hadith reflects the idea found frequently among Muslim scholars, usually described with the term tahrif that the Bible has been literally altered. The same idea lies behind Yaqut's (d. 626/1229) attribution of a quotation on Jerusalem to a Jewish convert to Islam from Banu Qurayza "who possessed a copy of the uncorrupted Torah." (2)