Third, if someone were to transmit any Israelite traditions from earlier generations on this subject, such reports would not constitute proof unless it were authentically established that our Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, had transmitted them from those earlier generations. As for what the people of the two Scriptures, and those of them who have embraced Islam, relate to us from the earlier prophets, we may neither affirm nor deny it if nothing in what we know indicates its truth or falsehood.

Thus, Sahīh al-Bukhārī relates from Yahyā ibn Abī Kathīr, from Abū Salamah, from Abū Hurayrah, who said: The People of the Book used to read the Torah in Hebrew and explain it in Arabic to the Muslims. The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: “Neither affirm what the People of the Book say nor deny it, but say: ‘We believe in Allah