Crucifixion of Jesus

===Islam===
{{Main|Islamic views on Jesus' death}}
{{See also|Jesus in Islam}}
Most Islamic traditions categorically deny that Jesus physically died, either on a cross or another manner. This denial is asserted in the Quran, which states:

{{Blockquote|And [for] their saying, "Indeed, we have killed the Messiah, Jesus the son of Mary, the messenger of Allah." And they did not kill him, nor did they crucify him; but rather, it was made to appear to them so. And indeed, those who differ over it are in doubt about it. They have no knowledge of it except the following of assumption. And they did not kill him, for certain. (157) Rather, Allah raised him to Himself. And ever is Allah Exalted in Might and Wise. (158)|[[Quran 4:157–158]]<ref name="Cite quran|4|157|e=158|s=ns">{{Cite quran|4|157|e=158|s=ns}}</ref>}}

Islamic traditions teach that Jesus [[entering heaven alive|ascended to Heaven]] without being put on the cross, but that God transformed another person to appear exactly like him and to be then crucified instead of him. This view is attested in an account by [[Irenaeus]] of the doctrine of the 2nd-century [[Alexandria]]n [[Gnostic]] [[Basilides]] in which Irenaeus refutes what he believes to be a heresy denying the death.<ref>"Wherefore he did not himself suffer death, but Simon, a certain man of Cyrene, being compelled, bore the cross in his stead; so that this latter being transfigured by him, that he might be thought to be Jesus, was crucified, through ignorance and error, while Jesus himself received the form of Simon, and, standing by, laughed at them. For since he was an incorporeal power, and the Nous (mind) of the unborn father, he transfigured himself as he pleased, and thus ascended to him who had sent him, deriding them, inasmuch as he could not be laid hold of, and was invisible to all" ([http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0103124.htm Irenaeus, ''Against Heresies'', book I, ch. 24, 4] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210419061155/http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0103124.htm |date=April 19, 2021 }}).</ref>