Uzair

thumb|A late 16th-century Ottoman manuscript depicting Uzair asleep next to Jerusalem prior to its destruction thumb|right|upright=1.3|The site is traditionally described as the tomb of Uzair at Al-Uzayr near Basra.

Uzair () is a figure who is mentioned in the Quran, Surah at-Tawbah, verse , which states that he was "revered by the Jews as the son of God". Uzair is most often identified with the biblical Ezra. Historians have described the reference as enigmatic since such views have not been found in Jewish sources. Islamic scholars have interpreted the Quranic reference in different ways, with some claiming that it alluded to a "specific group of Jews". A priest at the Aqsa compound also named Uzair is also said to have been in some commentaries to be the person who is identified as the protagonist in the Parable of the Hamlet in Ruins in surah Baqara (2:259). Implying he found Jerusalem in ruins from the Babylonian captivity and died for a 100 years like a sleep then God made him woke up. When awaken he was asked by God how much he slept and he said "maybe a day or a part of a day" while God then said that he was like it for a hundred years.