What did Ibn Kathir say about Prophet ʿĪsā (Jesus)?
The Islamic account of Jesus is both familiar and startlingly different from the Christian one. Ibn Kathir lays out the Muslim understanding from the annunciation to Jesus's raising to Heaven.
2 passages from 2 books in the library
The classical approach.
These passages are drawn from 2 books by Imam al-Ghazali and Ibn Battuta — part of the classical Sunni tradition that carries over a thousand years of reflection on the Qurʾān, the authentic Sunnah, and the consensus of the early community. Nothing below is a paraphrase. The words are the scholars' own, translated from the original Arabic manuscripts.
11th–12th century · Ṭūs, Khurāsān
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"The ultimate stage is to relinquish everything except God, to the point of not even using a stone as a pillow, as Jesus, peace be upon him, did."
14th century · Tangier, Morocco
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"Near this city, amidst its gardens, lies the zawiyah of the pious worshipper Abu Muhammad bin Abi Bakr bin Isa from Dhofar."
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