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Christians Must Heed
Jesus

Muslim related: "Abu Hurairah witnessed the Prophet say;
'The Prophet Muhammad said that the People of the Book read
the Torah in Hebrew and translated it into Arabic for the Mus-
lims’." (Mishkat al- Masabih, 1st chapter, part 6, p. 42)
"Al-Hafiz al-Zahabi relates that Abdullah ibn Salam who con-
verted from Judaism to Islam came to the Prophet (pbuh) and
said, "(Yesterday evening) I read the Koran and the Torah." He
replied, "Read one in one evening and the other in another
evening." (Al-Thalabi, Al-Iman al-Thalabi Tathkarar al-Huf-
fadh, Vol. 1, p. 27)
"Abdullah Ibn al-Amr, one of the Prophet Muhammad’s (pbuh)
close followers, would frequently read the Torah. One night he
dreamed he held honey in one hand and oil in the other, and

would sometimes eat from the honey and sometimes from the

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