the Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—in the Torah.”

He answered, “Indeed, he is described in the Torah with some of the very same qualities mentioned of him in the Quran.” The details of his description are found in the prophecy of Isaiah, not in the actual Book of Moses.

As noted earlier, the term “Torah” in their usage is a generic label for the scriptures held by the People of the Book; it is not confined to the Book of Moses alone. Thus, when they pair “the Torah and the Gospel,” what they mean by “Torah” is the whole corpus of writings possessed by the People of the Book: the Book of Moses, the Psalms of David, and the scrolls of the other prophets—everything except the Gospel itself, for that is not in the hands of the People of the Book at large, but with the Christians in particular.

The rest of the prophetic books are acknowledged by both communities, and this is further supported by the fact that Allah