In the name of Allah most gracious most merciful,

Assalaamualaikum wa rahmatuallahi wa barakatahu,

Did Prophet[pbuh] Kissed Torah?

A lie spoken by jews & christians is refuted alhamdulilah.They say" When there was a processiong in Medina, the Jewish people were

carrying the Torah - Prophet went over to the procession and kissed the torah to show his respect to the holy book" with this they say prophet recognised

Torah as uncorrupted book hence muslims should also believe that it is an uncorrupted book.

Refutation:

Among the authentic hadith ,Sahih Bukhari,Sahih Muslim,Abu Dawood,At Tirmidi etc..

Prophet pbuh never kissed torah.

And Prophet Muhammad pbuh was'nt seen kissing Quran ,had he kissed Torah it wud've been a sunnah.

Some kuffar also manipulate the below hadith dawood 4434 that he kissed the Torah and then placed it on cushion but below hadith refutes that.

1.Sunan of Abu-DawoodHadith 4434 Narrated byAbdullah Ibn Umar

A group of Jews came and invited the Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) to Quff. So he visited them in their school. They said:

AbulQasim, one of our men has committed fornication with a woman; so pronounce judgment upon them. They placed a cushion for the Apostle

of Allah (peace be upon him) who sat on it and said: Bring the Torah. It was then brought. He then withdrew the cushion from

beneath him and placed the Torah on it saying: I believed in thee and in Him Who revealed thee. He then said: Bring me one who is

learned among you. Then a young man was brought. The transmitter then mentioned the rest of the tradition of stoning similar to the

one transmitted by Malik from Nafi'

* Note:He then withdrew the cushion from beneath him and placed the Torah on it saying: I believed in thee and in Him Who revealed thee.=like

the way we believe in torah but not the corrupted scripture.

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2.Al-Muwatta Hadith

Hadith 41.1

Malik related to me from Nafi that Abdullah ibn Umar said, "The Jews came to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him

peace, and mentioned to him that a man and woman from among them had committed adultery. The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and

grant him peace, asked them, 'What do you find in the Torah about stoning?' They said, 'We make their wrong action known and flog

them.' Abdullah ibn Salam said, 'You have lied! It has stoning for it, so bring the Torah.' They spread it out and one of them placed

his hand over the ayat of stoning. Then he read what was before it and what was after it. Abdullah ibn Salam told him to lift his hand.

He lifted his hand and there was the ayat of stoning. They said, 'He has spoken the truth, Muhammad. The ayat of stoning is in it.' So

the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, gave the order and they were stoned . "

Abdullah ibn Umar added, "I saw the man leaning over the woman to protect her from the stones."

Malik commented, "By leaning he meant throwing himself over her so that the stones fell on him."

* Note:They spread it out:it was there before prophet but he did'nt kissed Torah.

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3.Al-Tirmidhi HadithHadith 194 Narrated byJabir ibn Abdullah

Umar ibn al-Khattab brought to Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) a copy of the Torah and said: Allah's Messenger, this is a copy of

the Torah. He (Allah's Messenger) kept quiet and he (Umar) began to read it. The (colour) of the face of Allah's Messenger (peace be

upon him) underwent a change, whereupon AbuBakr said: Would that your mother mourn you, don't you see the face of Allah's Messenger?

Umar saw the face of Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) and said: I seek refuge with Allah from the wrath of Allah and the wrath of

His Messenger. We are well pleased with Allah as Lord, with Islam as religion, and with Muhammad as Prophet. Whereupon Allah's Messenger

(peace be upon him) said: By Him in Whose hand is the life of Muhammad, even if Moses were to appear before you and you were to

follow him, leaving me aside, you would certainly stray into error; for if (Moses) were alive (now), and he found my prophetical

ministry, he would have definitely followed me. Transmitted by Darimi.

* Note:a copy of Torah was brought before prophet but he never took and kissed it.

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4.Sahih Al-Bukhari HadithHadith 9.632 Narrated byAbu Huraira

The people of the Scripture used to read the Torah in Hebrew and explain it to the Muslims in Arabic. Then Allah's Apostle said, "Do

not believe the people of the Scripture, and do not disbelieve them, but say, 'We believe in Allah and whatever has been revealed...' )

3.84)

* Note:here not recognising what people of scriptures used to read completely,its like giving no importance to Torah in terms of absoluteness.

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Though Muslims do recognise Torah as corrupted book,but certain parts which affirm with Quran are held to be true.

Corruption of Torah:

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2:79 Then woe to those who write the Book with their own hands and then say: "This is from Allah" to traffic with it for a miserable price! Woe to them

for what their hands do write and for the gain they make thereby.

5:13 But because of their breach of their Covenant We cursed them and made their hearts grow hard: they change the words from their (right) places and

forget a good part of the Message that was sent them nor wilt thou cease to find them barring a few ever bent on (new) deceits: but forgive them and

overlook (their misdeeds): for Allah loveth those who are kind.

Allah knows best.