—revealed in Medina and directed to the People of the Scripture:

“So eat of what Allah has provided for you, lawful and wholesome, and be grateful for Allah’s favor if it is Him you worship. He has only forbidden you carrion, blood, pork, and whatever has been dedicated to any other than Allah.” ⦗16:114–115⦘

He likewise says in Sūrat al-Anʿām:

“Say: I do not find, in what has been revealed to me, anything forbidden to one who wishes to eat it except carrion, running blood, or swine-flesh—for that is indeed loathsome—or a sinful offering dedicated to other than Allah. Yet whoever is driven by necessity, neither craving nor transgressing, will find that your Lord is All-Forgiving, All-Merciful. And upon those who were Jews We forbade every creature with claws, and of cattle and sheep We forbade them their fat, except what is borne on their backs, or the entrails, or what is mixed with bone.” ⦗6:145–146⦘

This is a further prohibition in addition to the four already mentioned.

Then, in Sūrat al-Naḥl—which was revealed after that sūrah—He says: “On those who were Jews We laid the prohibitions We previously related to you.” ⦗16:118⦘

Thus, these items stand prohibited to them by the explicit texts of both the Torah and the Quran.

When the “Qara’ites”—the followers of ʿAnan (1) and Benjamin—examined these grotesque impossibilities, the blatant fabrications, and the cold lies against Allah, the Torah, and Moses, they concluded that the proponents of the Talmud and the Mishnah (2) are liars regarding Allah, the Torah, and Moses—people of sheer folly and absurdity. Their disciples and elders even claim that whenever their jurists disputed a matter such as these, Allah would inspire them with a voice they could hear: “The truth is in…"