He said, “Each community reads in its own Scripture clear testimony to what it now denies: the Jews reject Jesus even though the Torah in their possession contains the pledge that Allah took from them through Moses to believe in Jesus, and the Gospel records Jesus’ affirmation of Moses and of what he brought from Allah in the Torah. Yet each side disbelieves in what the other side holds.”

Qatādah, commenting on Allah’s statement, “The Jews say, ‘The Christians have no basis’” (al-Baqarah 2:113), said: “Indeed, the earliest Christians were upon the truth, but they later innovated and split into factions.”