| Name | Died | Theology | Theory | Jesus attitude | Victim | Relationship | Reason for Selection | Miracle? | How | Notes | Time |
| al-Kalbi | 146/763 | Substitution | Natyanus | Friend of boasting Jews | Friend of boasting Jews | probably | likeness cast upon someone | Claims to be Abbas | Pre-Tabari | ||
| Mujahid B. Jabr AL-MAKKI | 104/722 | Meccan? | Substitution | probably | Pre-Tabari | ||||||
| Wahb Ibn Munabbih (v1) | 114/732 | Yemeni | Substitution | a willing disciple of Jesus | volunteered | yes | likeness on EVERYONE | endorsed by Al-Tabari | Pre-Tabari | ||
| Wahb Ibn Munabbih (v2, long one) | 114/732 | Yemeni | Substitution | Jesus seeks to avoid C | (Judas) | the traitor | UNK | yes | likeness on Judas | Acts of John | Pre-Tabari |
| Qatada Ibn Di'ama (v1) | 117/735 | Substitution | Jesus seeks to avoid C | a willing disciple of Jesus | volunteered | yes | likeness cast upon someone | Pre-Tabari | |||
| Qatada Ibn Di'ama (v2) | 117/735 | Substitution | Jesus seeks to avoid C | a willing disciple of Jesus | volunteered | Paradise promised | Pre-Tabari | ||||
| Al-Qasim Ibn Abi Bazza | 124/742 | Substitution | same as Mujahid/Qatada | Pre-Tabari | |||||||
| Isma'il Ibn Abd Al-Rahman Al-Suddi | 127/744 | Substitution | same as Qatada, but 19 disciples | Pre-Tabari | |||||||
| Ja'far Ibn Muhammad Al-Sadiq | 148/750 | Shiite Iman (6th) | Dual-spheres | Jesus | no | not quoted by Tabari; killing accepted | Pre-Tabari | ||||
| Abd Al-Malik B. Abd Al-Aziz, Ibn Jurayj | 149/766 | Substitution | same as Mujahid/Qatada | Pre-Tabari | |||||||
| Muqatil b. Sulayman Al-Balkhi | 150/767 | Substitution | Guard placed over Jesus by the Jews (Yahudha, but not the traitor) | punishment | Jews unsure of who they killed | Pre-Tabari | |||||
| Muhammad Ibn Ishaq | 150/767 | Substitution | Jesus seeks to avoid C | Serjes | a willing disciple of Jesus | volunteered | yes | likeness cast upon someone | King of Jews ordered the killing; 13 disciples (one not recognized by Christians); some Christians believe it was Judas who was killed? | Pre-Tabari | |
| Yahya Ibn Ziyad Al-Farra | 207/822 | (grammarian) | (passage not about Jesus being killed; but knowledge being not being killed) | based on grammar! | Pre-Tabari | ||||||
| Abu Muhammad Abd b. Muslim B. Qutayba Al-Dinawari | 276/889 | Sovereignty; and knowledge | deals with difficult passages in Q; like Acts--not Jewish initiative, they were not certain about what they had done | Pre-Tabari | |||||||
| Al-Tabari | 310/923 | Substitution | one of his companions, who remained in the house after the other disciples scattered | yes | changed into His likeness | his actual position is unclear, even though there is a uniformity in the eleven traditions he cites; Jesus HAD talked about his death that night! | Classical & Medieval (923-1505) | ||||
| Al-Zajjaj | 310/923 | (grammarian) | (unsure: cites both substitution and knowledge views as legit) | a willing disciple of Jesus | volunteered | promised the Garden | Classical & Medieval (923-1505) | ||||
| Al-Maturidi | 320/933 | (raises doubt about the substitution story; notes the knowledge view as being important) | a Jew who tried to arrest Jesus | enemy | punishment | yes | likeness cast upon someone | no isnads given; objects to Wahb's versions as being 'unattested' | Classical & Medieval (923-1505) | ||
| Abu Hatim Al-Razi | 322/933 | Isma'ili | Dual-spheres | says that Gospels and Q agree on this | Classical & Medieval (923-1505) | ||||||
| al-Nasafi | (same as al-Razi) | Isma'ili | Dual-spheres | (known through debate with Al-Razi) | Classical & Medieval (923-1505) | ||||||
| Ja'far Ibn Mansur Al-Yaman | 349/960 | Isma'ili | UNK, but full crucifixion | big on symbolism of Cross; includes broader Christological content--considered heretical in OXY | Classical & Medieval (923-1505) | ||||||
| Al-Sijistani | 360/971 | Isma'ili | Dual-spheres | Cross revealed Jesus' prophethood | Classical & Medieval (923-1505) | ||||||
| Brethren of Purity (Ikhwan al-Safa) | Tenth Century | Isma'ili | Dual-spheres | close to gospel accounts | Classical & Medieval (923-1505) | ||||||
| Abd Al-Jabbar | 416/1025 | Mu'tazili | Substitution | (none) | innocent Jew | (none) | Judas slandered him | no | Judas deliberately pointed to the wrong man, and he was assumed to be Jesus | totally naturalistic | Classical & Medieval (923-1505) |
| Al-Tha 'Labi (1) | 427/1035 | Shi'a | Substitution | a Jew pretending to be Jesus | no | pretending | Classical & Medieval (923-1505) | ||||
| Al-Tha 'Labi (2) | 427/1035 | Shi'a | Substitution | Pilate(!) | yes | likeness cast upon someone | Classical & Medieval (923-1505) | ||||
| Al-Tusi | 460/1067 | Shi'a (12er) | Substitution | anonymous | Jews selected to kill him INSTEAD of Jesus (polemic) | yes | likeness on EVERYONE | mixture of fraud/miracle; first Shi'I to endorse Sunni views on this | Classical & Medieval (923-1505) | ||
| Abu Al-Futuh al-Razi | 525/1131 | Persian Shi'a | "figurative docetism" | Classical & Medieval (923-1505) | |||||||
| Al-Tabrisi / Al-Tabarsi | 548/1153 | Shi'a (12er) | [repeats al-Tusi/Wahb] | Classical & Medieval (923-1505) | |||||||
| Al-Qushayri | 465/1072 | Ash'ari mystic | Substitution | offers it to a volunteer | a disciple | disciple | volunteered | yes | likeness cast upon someone | tries to justify Jesus accepting a substitute | Classical & Medieval (923-1505) |
| Al-Zamakhshari | 538/1144 | Mu'tazili | rejects Substitution as unlikely (from text); but doesn’t offer alternative; might have said a Jew was killed in substitution | detailed grammatical analysis; it was the 'affair' of the cross that was made obscure to the Jews | Classical & Medieval (923-1505) | ||||||
| Al-Baydawi | 685/1286 | popularizer of al-Z | Substitution | Jew named tatanus | Jew(?) | yes | Classical & Medieval (923-1505) | ||||
| Al-Razi | 606/1209 | Ash'arite | critical of substitution | cannot allow image-transfer (dishonest); "God knows best what happened" --refering to conflicting stories | Classical & Medieval (923-1505) | ||||||
| Ruzbihan al-Baqli | 606/1209 | Sunni/Asharite Sufi | Substitution | someone else UNLIKE Jesus in character (reason for killing him)? | yes | likeness cast upon someone | weird incarnational verbiage | Classical & Medieval (923-1505) | |||
| Ibn Kathir | 774/1373 | traditionalist | Substitution | avoidance | disciple | disciple | volunteered | UNK | UNK | no references to al-Z or al-Razi; serious villification of the Jews | Classical & Medieval (923-1505) |
| Al-Suyuti | 911/1505 | traditionalist | Substitution | disciple | disciple | 3 volunteered | UNK | UNK | Classical & Medieval (923-1505) |