It also says that Judah, the son of the Prophet Jacob, married his eldest son to a woman named Tamar. The son used to approach her from behind, so Allah became angered by his act and caused him to die. Judah then married his next son to her; whenever that son went in to her he spilled his semen on the ground, knowing that if she conceived the first child would be called after—and counted as—the child of his deceased brother. Allah detested this, so He caused him to die as well. Judah (1) then ordered her to return to her father’s house until his son Shelah grew up and reached maturity.

Later, Judah’s wife died, and he set out (2) to shear his sheep. When Tamar heard of this, she put on the garb of a prostitute and sat along his route. As her father-in-law (3) passed by and took her for a harlot, he solicited her. She demanded payment, so he promised her a kid and left with her his staff and signet as a pledge. He slept with her, and she conceived by him. From that very child descended the Prophet David (4).

Thus they have depicted him as the offspring of adultery—just as they have claimed that the Messiah was born of adultery—and they were not content with that until they attributed it to the Torah itself. In the same way they portrayed Lot’s two children as products of adultery, then traced David and other prophets back to those two sons.

As for their fabrications against Allah and His messengers and prophets, and their hurling of monstrous accusations at the Lord of all worlds and at His messengers, they are exceedingly numerous—such as their claim that Allah rested on the seventh day after creating the heavens and the earth (5). Allah therefore revealed to His Messenger a refutation of them, saying: “Indeed, We created the heavens and the earth and all that lies between them in six days, and no weariness touched Us …”