The people of the pre-Islamic era used to recite the Torah in Hebrew and explain it in Arabic to the Muslims. So the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Do not believe the People of the Book, nor disbelieve them. Rather, say, 'We believe in Allah and what has been revealed to us'" [Baqarah 2:136].
كان أهل الجاهلية يقرؤون التوراة بالعبرانية، ويفسرونها بالعربية لأهل الإسلام فقال رسول الله ﷺ: لا تصدقوا أهل الكتاب ولا تكذبوهم وقولوا: {آمنا بالله وما أنزل إلينا}.
Bukhari narrated it in the Tafsir (4485), from Muhammad bin Bashshar, who said, Uthman bin Umar told us, Ali bin Mubarak informed us, from Yahya bin Abu Kathir, from Abu Salama, from Abu Hurairah, and he related it.This hadith is a foundation for the obligation of withholding judgment about matters and areas of knowledge that are ambiguous. One should not rule on them as permissible or invalid, nor as lawful or forbidden. We have been commanded to believe in the books revealed to the prophets, but the readers of the scriptures among the Jews and Christians have distorted and altered them, and we have no way of knowing which parts of them are sound. As for what they relate from those books, is it accurate? We have been commanded to withhold judgment on it. So we do not affirm them as true, lest we become partners with them in what they distorted and altered from it, nor do we reject it as false, for it might be sound, in which case we would be denying something we were commanded to believe. Rather we say, we believe in what Allah has revealed of scripture.Khattabi noted this benefit in Alam Hadith (3/1801).