of those narrators who relate accounts from the People of the Book, although we would nevertheless find falsehood in his reports.’”

If, when the People of the Book—the Book Allah Most High revealed, whose contents we are obliged to believe—relate something from it to us, we do not believe it unless we know through another source that they are telling the truth, even though they read it in the language of the prophets and then translate it into Arabic for us, then how can we accept such accounts from those who have read the books of the Sabian philosophers and others in Greek and other languages and then translated them into Arabic? This is why the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “Say, ‘We believe in Allah and what has been revealed to us and what has been revealed to you,’” and said: “Say, ‘We believe in Allah and His messengers.’” Those from whom these accounts are transmitted are neither prophets nor people whose word would be believed if