<p class="footnote" id="pz95-8"><a href="#fn08_3.81"><b>3.81</b></a> <span epub:type="footnote" id="nf08_3.81" role="doc-footnote">– <em>when a messenger comes to you confirming what is with you</em></span></p>
<p class="footnote" id="pz95-9">This verse says that Allah made a covenant with the prophets in the past to believe in and help a messenger to come in the future, and that the prophets agreed. Muslims understand the unnamed messenger to be Muhammad.</p>
<p class="footnote" id="pz95-10">The Quran frequently claims that the recitations of the messenger confirm (<em>muṣaddiq</em>) that which is “with” the People of the Book. See the analysis of this claim, and a response, at 46.12.</p>