12 Facts About Uzair

1.

Uzair is a figure who is mentioned in the Quran, Surah At-Tawba, verse 9:30, which states that he was revered by the Jews as "the son of God".

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2.

Uzair is sometimes identified as the protagonist in the Quranic story of the man who slept for a hundred years.

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Ibn Hazm, al-Samaw'al and other scholars put forth the view that Uzair falsified the Torah, and this claim became a common theme in Islamic polemics against the Bible.

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4.

Uzair's grief is said to have been so great that God took his soul and brought him back to life after Jerusalem was reconstructed.

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5.

Uzair rode on his revived donkey and entered his native place.

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6.

Uzair prayed to God to cure her blindness and she could see again.

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7.

Uzair meets his son who recognized him by a mole between his shoulders and was older than he was.

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8.

Uzair thus renovated the Torah to the Children of Israel.

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9.

Uzair lived during the period around 450 BC The Jews regarded him with great reverence as the revivalist of their Scriptures which had been lost during their captivity in Babylon after the death of Prophet Solomon.

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10.

Uzair affirms this to be true because Orthodox Jews practice Judaism based on the rabbi's interpretation of the oral Torah.

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11.

Uzair cites that ibn Abbas narrated that four Jews believed that Uzayr was the son of God.

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12.

Viviane Comerro, Professor in Islamic literature at INALCO, considers the possibility of Quranic Uzair not being Ezra but Azariah instead, relying on Ibn Qutaybah, and identifying a confusion committed by Muslim exegetes.

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