Hidāyat al-ḤayārāIbn al-Qayyim

The Christians do not affirm that the Gospel was sent down from God to the Messiah as the word of God. Rather, every one of their sects agrees that what they call “the Gospel” consists of four chronicles composed by four well-known men (1) in different periods, and they recognize no other Gospel than these.

  1. A Gospel written by Matthew, a disciple of the Messiah, nine years after the Messiah was raised to heaven; it was written in Hebrew in the land of Judea in greater Syria.

  2. A Gospel written by Mark the Aaronite, a disciple of Simon, twenty-three years after the Messiah was raised; he wrote it in Greek in Antioch, a region of the Romans. They also say that the aforementioned Simon himself authored it, but that his name was later erased from its beginning and the work was attributed to his disciple Mark.

  3. A Gospel written by Luke, the physician from Antioch and a disciple of Simon, after Mark had completed his Gospel.

  4. A Gospel written by John (2), a disciple of the Messiah, some sixty-odd years after the Messiah was raised, which he composed in Greek.

Each of these four they call “the Gospel,” yet the variations, additions, and omissions between them are obvious to anyone who examines them.

The same is true of the Torahs held by the Samaritans, the Jews, and the Christians: their differences are clear to whoever studies them.

Therefore, the claim of that shameless liar that the copies of the Torah and the Gospel are identical in the East

(1) Omitted in the G manuscript and supplied in the margin. (2) In the G manuscript: “Yuhanna.”
والنصارى لا يُقِرُّون أنَّ الإنجيل مُنَزَّل من عند الله على المسيح، وأنَّه كلام الله، بل كلُّ فِرَقِهِمْ مجمعون (على أنَّ أربعة تواريخ ألَّفَها أربعةُ رجالِ معروفون) (١) في أزمانٍ مختلفةٍ، ولا يعرفون الإنجيلَ غير هذا. إنجيلٌ ألَّفهُ مَتَّى تلميذ المسيح، بعد تسع سنين من رفع المسيح، وكُتِبَ بالعبرانيَّةِ في بلد "يهوذا" بالشام. وإنجيل ألَّفهُ مَرْقُس الهارُونِيُّ، تلميذ شَمْعُون، بعد ثلاثٍ وعشرين سنة من رفع المسيح، وكَتبَهُ باليونانيَّة في بلاد أنطاكِيَة من بلاد الرُّوم، ويقولون: إن شمعون المذكور هو ألَّفه ثم مُحِيَ اسمُه من أوله، ونُسِبَ إلى تلميذه مَرْقُس. وإنجيلٌ ألَّفَهُ لُوْقَا الطبيب الأنطاكيُّ، تلميذ شمعون، بعد تأليف مَرْقُس. وإنجيل ألَّفَهُ يُوحَنّا (٢) تلميذ المسيح، بعد ما رُفِعَ المسيح ببضعٍ وستين سنة، كتبه باليُونَانِيَّة. وكلُّ واحدِ من هذه الأربعة يسمُّونه: الإنجيل، وبينها من التَّفاوُتِ والزيادة والنقصانِ ما يعلَمُه الواقفُ عليها. وبين توراةِ السَّامِرَةِ واليهود والنَّصارى من ذلك ما يعلمه من وَقَفَ عليها. فدعوى الكاذبِ الباهتِ: أنَّ نُسَخَ التوراة والإنجيل متفقةٌ شرقًا
(١) ساقط من "غ" واستدركه في الهامش. (٢) في "غ": "يُحَنّا".

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