The oasis city, earlier called Yathrib, to which Muhammad and his followers emigrated in 622. Islamic tradition places Surahs 3, 4 and 5 in the Medinan period, including the passages on Mary’s family, Jesus’s miracles and the statement that he was not crucified (4:157).
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AD 627Medinan period (c. AD 622–632)
Qur’an, Surah 3 (Al ʿImran): The Family of Imran
The Qur’an; tr. E. H. Palmer (1880)
The Qur’an’s longest account of Mary’s birth, Zachariah and John, and the annunciation of ‘the Messiah Jesus the son of Mary’, with his miracles ‘by God’s permission’. A 7th-century witness to the Islamic portrait of Jesus, not an independent source for his life.
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AD 627Medinan period (c. AD 622–632)
Qur’an, Surah 4 (An-Nisa): Women
The Qur’an; tr. E. H. Palmer (1880)
Contains the Qur’an’s only explicit statement on the crucifixion (4:157–158): ‘they did not kill him, and they did not crucify him’, but God raised him. Also 4:171, calling Jesus ‘the apostle of God and His Word’ and rejecting ‘Three’.
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AD 627Medinan period (c. AD 622–632)
Qur’an, Surah 5 (Al-Ma’idah): The Table
The Qur’an; tr. E. H. Palmer (1880)
Late Medinan surah named for the table Jesus’s disciples ask him to call down from heaven. It calls Jesus a prophet who brought the Gospel, rejects ‘God is the third of three’, and ends with Jesus denying that he told people to worship him and his mother.
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