Al-Jalalayn

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Then he went aside to his family secretly and brought a fat calf — in sūrat Hūd it is said a roasted calf Q. 1169 —

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and he placed it near them saying ‘Will you not eat?’ he invited them to eat but they did not respond.

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Then he conceived he kept secret in himself a fear of them. They said ‘Do not be afraid!’ we are messengers from your Lord. And they gave him good tidings of the birth of a knowledgeable boy one endowed with much knowledge and this was Isaac as mentioned in sūrat Hūd Q. 1171.

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Then his wife Sarah came forward clamouring shouting fī sarratin is a circumstantial qualifier that is to say she came shouting and smote slapped her face and said ‘A barren old woman!’ who has never given birth to a child aged ninety-nine with Abraham being one hundred years old; or alternatively he was a hundred and twenty years old and she was ninety years old.

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They said ‘So just like what we have said with regard to the good tiding has your Lord said. Indeed He is the Wise in His actions the Knower’ of His creatures.