It is narrated from IBN-ABBASS that some of the learned Jews, and some of the NAJRAN'S CHRISTIANS, in a hot dispute with Muslims, claimed to be nearer to God, and one denied another. The Jews said: Our prophet Moses, is the greatest of all.
Christians said, Jesus Christ is the greatest and the best of all. Then both parties preached Muslims to recant, and be a Jew or a Christian to be guided to the path of truth and salvation. To this effect the following three verses revealed.