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JOHN, MARY, AND CHRIST.

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This is an Islamic legendary narrative from the *qisas al-anbiya* (stories of the prophets) tradition, retelling the births of Mary, John the Baptist, and Jesus alongside an extended account of Jesus's miracles. The text follows Mary from her dedication to the Temple through Gabriel's annunciation, her miraculous delivery under a date palm, and Jesus defending his mother at birth by speaking from her arms. A central and distinctive episode has Jesus resurrect a disembodied skull near the Dead Sea, which delivers a lengthy first-person account of dying, being judged, and suffering in hell — including a detailed taxonomy of hell's seven floors assigned to hypocrites, Jews, Christians, Magi, prophet-deniers, idolaters, and future sinners of Mohammed's community. The narrative is explicitly Islamic in framing: Jesus is consistently a prophet and servant of Allah rather than divine, and his miracles (animating clay birds, healing the sick, raising the dead) are performed "by the will of Allah" to restore Israel to righteousness, not as demonstrations of his own divine nature. The skull episode is the most theologically distinctive section, offering vivid eschatological detail — the Angel of Death, interrogating angels with columns of fire, the tree Sakum — that reflects Islamic hadith literature more than Quranic text. Readers interested in Islamic retellings of biblical figures, comparative religion, or medieval eschatological imagination will find this text richly specific.

JOHN, MARY, AND CHRIST.

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