The Holy Quran 19:7 — Surah Maryam

Arabic text

يَـٰزَكَرِيَّآ إِنَّا نُبَشِّرُكَ بِغُلَـٰمٍ ٱسْمُهُۥ يَحْيَىٰ لَمْ نَجْعَل لَّهُۥ مِن قَبْلُ سَمِيًّا

Translation

(In reply to his du'aa, Allaah sent an angel to him who said,) "O Zakariyya, We convey to you the good news of (the birth of) a son called Yahya. We have never named anyone like this before him (his name and his character were unique)."

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

The glad tidings of Yahya ﵇: that is, the supplication was accepted and the glad tidings of a son arrived, whose name (Yahya) Almighty Allah appointed even before his birth. And the name, too, was so unusual that no one before him had been given it. Some of the early righteous generations (salaf) took “سَمِيّ” (namesake)

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