charge the Christians with the Tahríf-i-Lafzí. They say the Christians have expunged the word Ahmad from the prophecies, and have inserted the expression "Son of God," and the story of the crucifixion, death, and resurrection of our blessed Lord. This view, however, is not the one held by the most celebrated of the Muslim commentators.
Imám Muhammad Ismaíl Bokhárí,[1] records that Ibn ʿAbbás said that "the word Tahríf (corruption) signifies to change a thing from its original nature; and that there is no man who could corrupt a single word of what proceeded from God, so that the Jews and Christians could corrupt only by misrepresenting the meaning of the words of God."
Ibn-i-Mazar and Ibn Abi Hátim state, in the commentary known as the Tafsír Durr-i-Mansúr, that they have it on the authority of Ibn-i-Munía, that the Taurát (i. e. the books of Moses), and the Injíl (i. e. the Gospels), are in the same state of purity in which they were
- ↑ Vide Hadís-i-Sahíh-Bokhárí, edition printed at the Matbaʾ Ahmadi Meerut, A.H. 1284 (A.D. 1867), p. 1127, line 7.
