According to the definitive statement in the Quran (4:157) and the consensus of classical Islamic scholarship, Jesus (Isa), the son of Mary, was neither killed nor crucified. The central Islamic doctrine on this event is encapsulated in the Quranic phrase 'wa lakin shubbiha lahum' ('but it was made to appear to them'). Classical authorities, including Ibn Kathir and Al-Tabari, explain this to mean that Allah protected His messenger by casting the likeness of Jesus onto another person, who was then crucified in his stead, while Jesus himself was raised alive to heaven. This divine intervention is seen as a testament to Allah's power to protect His prophets and a refutation of the boastful claims of his enemies. The event underscores the unreliability of human conjecture ('zann') when contrasted with divine certainty ('yaqin'), making the non-crucifixion of Jesus a foundational tenet of Islamic Christology that distinguishes it from Christian belief.