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The ''' Zabur ''' mentioned in the [[Qur'an]] refers to the '' Psalms '' of the Old Testament. The Qur'an asserts that the Zabur is one of the three previous [[revelations]] of [[Allah]] (The other two being the [[Taurat]] and [[Injil]]). Although the Zabur is only mentioned three times in the Qur'an, Allah tells us that he revealed them to Dawud (the Biblical King David).

{{quote | {{Quran|21|05}}|Before this We wrote in the Psalms, after the Message (given to Moses): My servants the righteous, shall inherit the earth." }}

The Prophet said, "The reciting of the Zabur (i.e. Psalms) was made easy for David. He used to order that his riding animals be saddled, and would finish reciting the Zabur before they were saddled. And he would never eat except from the earnings of his manual work." }}

Once we were traveling with the Prophet and we carried on traveling till the last part of the night and then we (halted at a place) and slept (deeply). There is nothing sweeter than sleep for a traveler in the last part of the night. So it was only the heat of the sun that made us to wake up and the first to wake up was so and so, then so and so and then so and so (the narrator 'Auf said that Abu Raja' had told him their names but he had forgotten them) and the fourth person to wake up was 'Umar bin Al-Khattab. And whenever the Prophet used to sleep, nobody would wake up him till he himself used to get up as we did not know what was happening (being revealed) to him in his sleep. So, 'Umar got up and saw the condition of the people, and he was a strict man, so he said, "Allahu Akbar" and raised his voice with Takbir, and kept on saying loudly till the Prophet got up because of it. When he got up, the people informed him about what had happened to them. He said, "There is no harm (or it will not be harmful). Depart!" So they departed from that place, and after covering some distance the Prophet stopped and asked for some water to perform the ablution. So he performed the ablution and the call for the prayer was pronounced and he led the people in prayer. After he finished from the prayer, he saw a man sitting aloof who had not prayed with the people. He asked, "O so and so! What has prevented you from praying with us?" He replied, "I am Junub and there is no water. " The Prophet said, "Perform Tayammum with (clean) earth and that is sufficient for you."

Abu 'Abdultah said: The word Saba'a means "The one who has deserted his old religion and embraced a new religion." Abul 'Ailya said, ''' "The Sabis are a sect of people of the Scripture who recite the Book of Psalms." '''}}

The Prophet said, "The recitation of Psalms (David's Quran) was made light and easy for David that he used to have his ridding animal be saddled while he would finish the recitation before the servant had saddled it." }}

The Qur'an claims to confirms the previous revelations thus Muslims present evidence of this by quoting Qur'an 21:5 (above) and '' Psalms 37:29 '' . Here they are together:

However, as evidenced by the Bukhari [[hadith]] above, [[Muhammad]] and his [[Sahabah|companions]] had access to recitations of the Psalms (as they did the other 'previous revelations'), so it would seem that this 'confirmation' is in no way "miraculous".

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