IBN-ABBASS has said: ``In the prophet's life time, a Jew and a JEWESS committed adultery. Both of them were eminents and among the grandees, and the chiefs and influential Jews didn't want to penance them, which was stoning according to the Mosaic LAW. A suggestion was to refer that case to our prophet (perhaps the stone could be reduced to lashes) But the prophet appealed to the authority of their own scriptures.

      They all agreed. Then the prophet ordered that part of the scripture which was about such affairs be opened and rehearsed by a learned Jew whose name was IBN-SURIA.'' The rabbi who was aware of the whole incident, read the paragraph of the BOOK loudly, and when he reached the phrase of stoning the adulterer, he covered it by his fingers and by-passed the phrase, and jumped the words over! ABDULLAH-IBN-SALAM another learned Jew, who was now a Muslim, was present and noticed how IBN-SURIA prevaricated the verse. He got up and took the scripture and read it correctly and as it was. Then the prophet sentenced the adulterer and the adulteress to death by stoning according to the Mosaic Law (BY WHICH THEY HAD ALSO MARRIED). So to this effect the verse (NO. 23) was revealed.''

      As for the phrase: `` (A SHARE OF THE SCRIPTUR), it may imply that during the life time of Mohammad (AS) the scriptures with the Jews and Christians has been only a part or a portion of a whole book, the most of which must have been either lost or tampered with and changed.''

      The Jews did not even accept their own Mosaic law and refused to perform the commandment.