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==Sources== | ==Sources== | ||
===Qur'an=== | |||
Mary, the mother of Jesus is called sister of Aaron in sura 19: | Mary, the mother of Jesus is called sister of Aaron in sura 19: | ||
{{Quote|{{Quran-range|19|27|34}}|Then '''she brought him to her own folk,''' carrying him. '''They said: O Mary!''' Thou hast come with an amazing thing. | {{Quote|{{Quran-range|19|27|34}}|Then '''she brought him to her own folk,''' carrying him. '''They said: O Mary!''' Thou hast come with an amazing thing. | ||
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{{Quote|{{Quran|66|12}}|And '''Mary, daughter of 'Imran, whose body was chaste, therefor We breathed therein something of Our Spirit.''' And she put faith in the words of her Lord and His scriptures, and was of the obedient. | {{Quote|{{Quran|66|12}}|And '''Mary, daughter of 'Imran, whose body was chaste, therefor We breathed therein something of Our Spirit.''' And she put faith in the words of her Lord and His scriptures, and was of the obedient. | ||
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Imran is an Arabic form of the name Amram. Amram was the father of Moses, Aaron and Miriam <ref>1 Chronicles 6:3, https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+6:3&version=NIV</ref>. So the Qur'an mentions Mary in the same family relationship as Miriam. | |||
===Hadith=== | |||
The Christians of Najran found this mistake in the time of Muhammad. They asked Muhammad's companion about it and he didn't have a clue. He asked Muhammad and he gave him this answer: | |||
{{Quote|{{Muslim|28|13}}| Mughira b. Shu'ba reported: | |||
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== | ==Resemblance with Biblical genealogy== | ||