Medina, thereby indicating that the description applied to it. Likewise, a group of scholars said, concerning Allah Most High’s words:

“Allah suffices as a witness between me and you, as does whoever has knowledge of the Scripture.” [al-Ra‘d 43]

And His words:

“Say: ‘Have you considered: if it is from Allah and you disbelieve in it, while a witness from the Children of Israel has testified to something like it’” [al-Ahqāf 10]

—and similar passages—that the person intended was ‘Abd Allāh ibn Salām, or him and others like him who embraced Islam in Medina. Yet this is among the matters Allah has made unambiguous, for this verse was revealed in Mecca before Ibn Salām was known, let alone had embraced Islam. Moreover, He said, “to something like it,” intending the testimony of the People of the Scripture concerning something like