Early Arab Christians Point Out An Error In The Quran

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Muhammad seems to have thought that St Mary (Miriam) the mother of Jesus is the same Mary (Miriam) as the sister of Moses and Aaron!

“Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took the timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances”
(Exodus 15:20)

“The name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt; and to Amram she bore Aaron and Moses and their sister Miriam.”
(Numbers 26:59)

The following verses from the Quran are regarding St Mary the mother of Jesus (these verses in addition to the verses surrounding these verses make it clear that the following verses in the Quran are regarding St Mary the mother of Jesus)

“Then she brought him to her own folk, carrying him. They said: O Mary! Thou hast come with an amazing thing.
O sister of Aaron! Thy father was not a wicked man nor was thy mother a harlot.”
(Sura 19:27-28)

"(Remember) when the ***wife of 'Imran ** * said: My Lord! I have vowed unto Thee that which is in my belly as a consecrated (offering). Accept it from me. Lo! Thou, only Thou, art the Hearer, the Knower!
When she was delivered, she said: “O my Lord! Behold! I am delivered of a female child!”- and Allah knew best what she brought forth- “And no wise is the male Like the female. I have named her Mary, and I commend her and her offspring to Thy protection from the Evil One, the Rejected.”
(Sura 3:35-36)

Early Arab Christians pointed out this error in the Quran. Here is the story in Sahih Muslim

Sahih Muslim
Book 025, Number 5326:
“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 (may peace be upon him) 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.”

“When the NT refers to people being called after saints of old, it calls them, “son” or “daughter”. Jesus is called “son of David” in Matthew 21:9, and Elizabeth is called, “daughter of Aaron” in Luke 1:5, etc. Abraham is referred to as “father” by the Jews in John 8:38. But never are these people called, “brothers or sisters” after any of the previous saints.”
answering-islam.org.uk/Silas/mary.htm

Early Arab Christians pointed out an error in the Quran. It seems that when Muhammad was confronted with this error he tried to make up an excuse to hide this error.

further eading
Qur’an Contradiction: Mary, Sister of Aaron & Daughter of Amram
answering-islam.org.uk/Quran/Contra/qbhc06.html

Is Mary The Sister Of Aaron by Silas
answering-islam.org.uk/Silas/mary.htm

 

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The following quote about St Mary’s (the mother Jesus) parents is also interesting

"**Her parents **

Though few commentators adhere to this view of St. Luke’s genealogy, the name of Mary’s father, Heli, agrees with the name given to Our Lady’s father in a tradition founded upon the report of the Protoevangelium of James, an apocryphal Gospel which dates from the end of the second century. According to this document the parents of Mary are Joachim and Anna. Now, the name Joachim is only a variation of Heli or Eliachim, substituting one Divine name (Yahweh) for the other (Eli, Elohim). The tradition as to the parents of Mary, found in the Gospel of James, is reproduced by St. John Damascene [24], St. Gregory of Nyssa [25], St. Germanus of Constantinople [26], pseudo-Epiphanius [27], pseudo-Hilarius [28], and St. Fulbert of Chartres [29]. Some of these writers add that the birth of Mary was obtained by the fervent prayers of Joachim and Anna in their advanced age. As Joachim belonged to the royal family of David, so Anna is supposed to have been a descendant of the priestly family of Aaron; thus Christ the Eternal King and Priest sprang from both a royal and priestly family [30]."
newadvent.org/cathen/15464b.htm