these Arabic copies currently in circulation are merely translations of the texts they themselves possess. Their authenticity therefore cannot be known unless the accuracy of the translation is first verified and it is proven that the source material truly goes back to the Messiah—peace be upon him. The same applies to every other language.

Fourth point: The Torah, the prophetic writings taken from Israelite manuscripts, and the Gospels amount to four books that appeared after the Messiah—peace be upon him. Two of their writers, Luke and Mark, never met the Messiah, while two, John and Matthew, did see him. All later manuscripts derive only from these four, and what the four relate is by no means necessarily established through tawātur (uninterrupted mass transmission). If the texts have since spread into many languages, that happened after the time of the four; it is not because those who heard the Messiah himself suddenly spoke in seventy-two tongues. No one has ever claimed such a thing, nor would any sensible person say so, for the disciples were twelve, not seventy-two.

So if it is said, “It was transmitted by two…"