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The name Uzair cost him a remembered life a century late
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The name Uzair cost him a remembered life a century late
In this episode, we trace how a single, eleven-letter name in one Quranic verse sparked centuries of debate across Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions. We follow the historical clues, philological disputes, and contested local memories that keep the question alive: who was Uzair, and why does that accusation matter?
Person: Uzair (name appears once in the Quran)
Source: Quran, chapter 2, verse 259
Historian: Ibn Kathir identifies the man as Uzair
Alternative ID: Ezra (Jewish scribe) per some Islamic commentators
Argument: Al-Samaw'al proposes Uzair derives from Elazar/Eliezer
- A Quranic scene describes a man who sleeps a century and returns to find the world changed, with a donkey reassembled and food unspoiled.
- Early Islamic context: in 624 CE the Muslim qibla shifted from Jerusalem to Mecca, creating tension with Medina's Jewish community.
- Ibn Kathir records Sallam ibn Mishkam using the name Uzair to challenge the Prophet, leading to a Quranic verse stating "The Jews say Uzair is the son of God."
- Jewish sources before Islam (Jerusalem Talmud, Exodus Rabba) explicitly reject any notion of God having a son, complicating the Quranic accusation.
- Philological and regional evidence conflicts: medieval Al-Samaw'al argues Uzair ≠ Ezra and 19th-century Jacob Saphir reports Yemeni Jews avoided Ezra's name or blamed him for textual changes.
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