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 When I came to Najran, they (the Christians of Najran) asked me: You read" O sister of Harun" (i. e. Hadrat Maryam) in the Qur'an, whereas Moses was born much before Jesus. When I came back to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) I asked him about that, whereupon he said: The (people of the old age) used to give names (to their persons) after the names of Apostles and pious persons who had gone before them.}}
 Harun is an Arabic form of Aaron. His answer was that she was only called "sister of Aaron" and the reason is that Aaron was a pious man who lived a thousand years before her.
-==Resemblance with Biblical genealogy==
-Imran is the Arabic version of the Hebrew name 'Amram' which we find in the Old Testament. This Amram is mentioned as being the father of Moses, Aaron and Mary, which is a different Mary than the mother of Jesus from the New Testament.
-Since the Qur'anic father of Mary has the same name as an Old Testament man who also had a daughter named Mary, but lived approximately 1400 years earlier, non-Muslim scholars began to consider the possibility that the writer(s) of the Qur'an have perhaps confused one Mary for the other. Though two people who lived in different times can surely have fathers who share the same name, the debated Quranic error becomes more evident when we read that the Qur'an also calls the mother of Jesus "Sister of Haroun", which is the Arabic name for 'Aaron', another child of the Old Testament Amram. So now Amram shares, not one, but two identically named children with the Qur'anic Imran:
-{{Quote|{{Quran|19|28}}|O sister of Aaron! Thy father was not a wicked man nor was thy mother a harlot.}}
-The above indicates that the Quran inexplicitely implies that Moses was the uncle of Jesus, which is physically impossible since they lived about 1400 years apart (according to Christian and non-Christian theologians).
 ==Apologetic arguments==