The Holy Quran 3:33 — Surah Ali 'Imran

Arabic text

۞ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ ٱصْطَفَىٰٓ ءَادَمَ وَنُوحًا وَءَالَ إِبْرَٰهِيمَ وَءَالَ عِمْرَٰنَ عَلَى ٱلْعَـٰلَمِينَ

Translation

Certainly Allaah selected Aadam عليه الصلاة والسلام, Nooh عليه الصلاة والسلام, the family of Ibraheem عليه الصلاة والسلام and the family of Imraan عليه الصلاة والسلام from the entire universe (by selecting Prophets from among them). (The Imraan referred to here is the father of Maryam رضي الله تعالى عنها).

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

The family of Imran: there are two Imrans: one is the father of Musa ﵇, the other the father of Maryam ﵍. Most scholars of the earlier and later generations have taken the second Imran to be meant here, because further on, from اِذْ قَالَتِ امْرَاَتُ عِمْرٰنَ “When the wife of Imran said…” onwards, the story of the household of this second Imran is related.

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