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In an English translation of 3:49 and 5:110 it says that 'Isa ( عليه السلام) cured a man, with permission of Allah (swa), who was a leper (which is a long-term infection either on a part of the body or on the whole body by the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae or Mycobacterium lepromatosis).

But in my Dutch translation I see that the translator used the term Vitiligo ( which is a skin condition characterized by patches of the skin losing their pigment).

So which disease did the man have, Leprosy or vitiligo?

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leprosy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitiligo

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  • @Medi1Saif: Do you consider blindness a disease? It's more like a condition some people have.
    – user24306
    Jul 24, 2018 at 10:57

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While ibn Kathir in his tafsir says that al-Abras الأبرص is known. And made some details about the interpretation of al-Akmah الأكمه:

(And I heal him who is Akmah) meaning, 'a person who was born blind,' which perfects this miracle and makes the challenge more daring.
﴿وَالاٌّبْرَصَ﴾ (And the leper) which is a known disease, (Source: qtafsir)

The authors of qtafsir seem to support the view that al-Baras is leprosy and they didn't quote the details made by ibn Kathir (like the statement saying they are those who see by day and can't see by night and the opposite view). While the commonly known -at least in Moroccan Arabic the term is well known- is that it refers to vitiligo. As described and interpretd by imam al-Qurtobi in his tafsir:

والبرص معروف وهو بياض يعتري الجلد

where he is explaining that al-Baras is a diseas that shows up as white surfaces on the human skin. This was also quoted by ibn 'Ashur in his at-Tahrir wa-Tanwir and al-Baghawi supported this -in his tafsir- calling it وضح (which is what al-Qurtobi described) most other tafssir books detailed on the meaning(s) of al-Akmah and left al-Abras out as it seems to have been known (like ar-Razi in his at-Tafsir al-Kabir, az-Zamakhsari in his al-Kashaf and as said earlier ibn Kathir in his tafsir who said it is a known desease).

Note that the description made by al-Qurtobi also describes symptoms of leprosy - as mentioned by @Uma in a comment- therefore both meanings may apply as long as we have no better confirmation

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    So there is no final conclusion in which there is only one answer accepted?
    – user24306
    Jul 24, 2018 at 21:07
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    White patches are also a symptom of Leprosy. The term was likely used to refer to a range of conditions.
    – UmH
    Jul 25, 2018 at 7:44

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