Islamic Study Materials
What Islam teaches about the figures Christians know from Scripture — set out from the Qur’an, the hadith and the classical commentators
About these resources
These pages set out what Islam teaches about the figures Christians know from Scripture, using only Islam’s own sources. The sources include the Qur’an, the Sahih (fully trustworthy) Hadith of Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, and the most respected Islamic commentators, mostly of the early or classical period. The purpose is to help Christians understand those figures as Islam presents them, and from that to be able to compare and contrast them with the story of Jesus and the prophets in the Bible.
Every passage is quoted at length rather than summarized, and every citation links out to its source. See the notes on each page to get more details on the resources and processes used.
The Story of Isa al-Masih
Every Quranic verse about the figure the Qur’an puts in the place of Jesus Christ, ordered to follow the Gospel narrative rather than the order of the Qur’an, together with the hadith and classical commentary Muslim scholars use to read them. Isa’s words are marked in red, as in a red-letter Bible.
Jonah (Yunus)
The Quran’s account of Jonah — the flight to the laden ship, the fish, the prayer from the darkness and the city that believed — with the one Sahih hadith that carries his prayer, and the classical commentators’ disagreement over whether his departure was a fault at all.