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→Quran 7:27 et al. - All people are descended from Adam and Eve: Added note confirming humans are all descended from Adam with the Qur'anic phrase.
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{{Quote|{{Quran|4|1}}|O mankind, fear your Lord, who created you from one soul and created from it its mate and dispersed from both of them many men and women. And fear Allah, through whom you ask one another, and the wombs. Indeed Allah is ever, over you, an Observer.}} | {{Quote|{{Quran|4|1}}|O mankind, fear your Lord, who created you from one soul and created from it its mate and dispersed from both of them many men and women. And fear Allah, through whom you ask one another, and the wombs. Indeed Allah is ever, over you, an Observer.}} | ||
{{Quote|{{Quran|17|70}}|And We have certainly honored the children of Adam and carried them on the land and sea and provided for them of the good things and preferred them over much of what We have created, with [definite] preference.}} | {{Quote|{{Quran|17|70}}|And We have certainly honored the children of Adam and carried them on the land and sea and provided for them of the good things and preferred them over much of what We have created, with [definite] preference.}}Humans are interchangeably referred to as 'the sons of Adam' (banī ādam), with the phrase attested seven times in the Qur'an.<ref name=":0">McAuliffe, J. D. (Eds.). (01 Jan. 2001). "Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān". In Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. Retrieved Mar 8, 2025, from <nowiki>https://brill.com/view/serial/ENQU</nowiki> Page 22. Read for free on [https://archive.org/details/encyclopaedia-of-the-quran-6-volumes-jane-dammen-mc-auliffe/page/n59/mode/2up?q=adam internet archive, page (60/3956) of the PDF] | ||
''The phrase “the sons of Adam” (banii Adam) in the sense of “humankind” is attested seven times. ‘The quranic commentators derive the name “Adam” from adim al-ard (‘Abd al-Razzaq, Tafsir, i, 433 ti, 20; Ibn Sa‘d, Tabaqat, i, 26; Tabari, Tafsir, 1, 214-5) or from adamat alard (Tabart, Tafsir, i, 208), because he was created from “the surface of the earth.”''</ref> Qur'anic commentators derive the name “Adam” from adim al-ard or from adamat alard, because he was created from 'the surface of the earth.<ref name=":0" /> | |||
====Y-chromosomal Adam, Mitochondrial Eve, and the minimum population bottleneck==== | ====Y-chromosomal Adam, Mitochondrial Eve, and the minimum population bottleneck==== | ||