The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: Jesus The So...

This is a Shia Islamic theological and exegetical text, likely a chapter from a *qisas al-anbiyâ'* (stories of the prophets) work published around 1971, drawing on Quranic verses (primarily Âl-`Imrân) and narrations attributed to Shia Imams. Its central content traces the lineage, birth, and divine election of Mary and Jesus, explaining how God's promise to Amram ben Mâþân — that he would father a miracle-working prophet — was fulfilled a generation later through his daughter Mary and her son Jesus. A theologically distinctive claim concerns "apparent opposition" in prophecy: drawing on Imam Al-Ridha, the text argues that divine promises made to one person may be fulfilled in their descendants, which the author uses to reconcile the gender of Mary's birth with Amram's expectation of a son. The text also draws sustained parallels between Mary and Zacharias on one hand, and Fatimah (daughter of the Prophet Muhammad) and Ali on the other, presenting this as a structural pattern in sacred history rather than coincidence. A maximalist claim runs throughout: the Household of Muhammad is presented as surpassing all prophets and angels, described as "leaders of the universe," with the family of Abraham — including Muhammad's lineage through Ishmael — treated as the culminating line of divine election. The final section offers a chronological framework for biblical and Islamic history, anchored partly in Torah genealogies and partly in narrations from the Imams, arriving at a total reckoning of approximately 5,336 years from Shem's birth to the author's present day.

The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: Jesus The So...

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