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Zabur is the holy book of the Sebo'un
Sabians

The Sabians were a religious group. Most of what is currently known about them comes from what has been written about them by Maimonides and the primary Classical Arabic sources....
 (Arabic
Arabic language

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:??????, Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
:Seß?µe???) and, according to Islam
Islam

Islam is a Monotheism, Abrahamic religion originating with the teachings of the Prophets of Islam Muhammad, a 7th century Arab religious and political figure....
, one of the holy books
Islamic holy books

The Islamic holy books are the records which most of the Muslims believe were dictated by God to various prophets. They are the Suhuf Ibrahim , the Tawrat , the Zabur , the Injil , and the Qur'an....
 revealed by God before the Koran (the others mentioned in the Koran being the Tawrat
Tawrat

Tawrat is the Arabic transliteration of the Hebrew language word Torah which Muslims believe was a Islamic holy books given by Allah to Islamic view of Moses ....
 (Torah
Torah

The term "Torah" , or Five Books of Moses or Pentateuch, refers to the entirety of Judaism's founding Halakha and ethical religious texts....
) and the Injil
Injil

The Injil The word Injil is derived from Greek language word ??a??????? .Muslims generally believe the Gospel or the New Testament to have been tahrif over time....
 (Bible
Bible

The Bible is the central religious text of Judaism and Christianity. The exact Books of the Bible is dependent on the religious traditions of specific denominations....
)).

Some scholars equate the Zabur with the biblical book of Psalms
Psalms

Psalms is a book of the Hebrew Bible , included in the collected works known as the "Writings" or Ketuvim....
. The term zabur is the Arabic equivalent of the Hebrew
Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Modern Hebrew is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Classical Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jews communities around the world....
 zimra, meaning "song, music." It, along with zamir ("song") and mizmor ("psalm"), is a derivative of zamar, meaning "sing, sing praise, make music."

Zabur is a collection of ancient hymn
Hymn

A hymn is a type of song, usually religious, specifically written for the purpose of praise, adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a deity/deities, a prominent figure or an epic tale....
s and spiritual songs.






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Zabur is the holy book of the Sebo'un
Sabians

The Sabians were a religious group. Most of what is currently known about them comes from what has been written about them by Maimonides and the primary Classical Arabic sources....
 (Arabic
Arabic language

Arabic is a Central Semitic language, thus related to and classified alongside other Semitic languages languages such as Hebrew language and Aramaic language....
:??????, Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
:Seß?µe???) and, according to Islam
Islam

Islam is a Monotheism, Abrahamic religion originating with the teachings of the Prophets of Islam Muhammad, a 7th century Arab religious and political figure....
, one of the holy books
Islamic holy books

The Islamic holy books are the records which most of the Muslims believe were dictated by God to various prophets. They are the Suhuf Ibrahim , the Tawrat , the Zabur , the Injil , and the Qur'an....
 revealed by God before the Koran (the others mentioned in the Koran being the Tawrat
Tawrat

Tawrat is the Arabic transliteration of the Hebrew language word Torah which Muslims believe was a Islamic holy books given by Allah to Islamic view of Moses ....
 (Torah
Torah

The term "Torah" , or Five Books of Moses or Pentateuch, refers to the entirety of Judaism's founding Halakha and ethical religious texts....
) and the Injil
Injil

The Injil The word Injil is derived from Greek language word ??a??????? .Muslims generally believe the Gospel or the New Testament to have been tahrif over time....
 (Bible
Bible

The Bible is the central religious text of Judaism and Christianity. The exact Books of the Bible is dependent on the religious traditions of specific denominations....
)).

Some scholars equate the Zabur with the biblical book of Psalms
Psalms

Psalms is a book of the Hebrew Bible , included in the collected works known as the "Writings" or Ketuvim....
. The term zabur is the Arabic equivalent of the Hebrew
Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Modern Hebrew is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Classical Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jews communities around the world....
 zimra, meaning "song, music." It, along with zamir ("song") and mizmor ("psalm"), is a derivative of zamar, meaning "sing, sing praise, make music."

Introduction

The Zabur is a collection of ancient hymn
Hymn

A hymn is a type of song, usually religious, specifically written for the purpose of praise, adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a deity/deities, a prominent figure or an epic tale....
s and spiritual songs. They were originally written to be sung, not just to be recited or read. According to Islamic tradition, the Zabur was the worship book used in Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
. It is often called Dawud's Zabur (or the Psalms of David
David

David , was the second king of the united Kingdom of Israel according to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. He is depicted as a righteous king, although not without fault, as well as an acclaimed warrior, musician and poet ....
). This is not intended to imply that David wrote all of the Zabur, because Islamic scholarship sees several prophets and holy men as having contributed to the Zabur. More of the Zabur is attributed to David than to anyone else. Others to whom parts of the Zabur are attributed include Musa
Musa

Musa may refer to:In botany:*Musa , one of three genera in the family Musaceae that includes bananas and plantainsPlaces:*Mu?a, a river in Lithuania and Latvia...
 (Moses), Uzair (Ezra
Ezra

Ezra was a Jewish priestly scribe who led about 5,000 Babylonian captivity living in Babylon to their home city of Jerusalem in 459 BC. Ezra reconstituted the dispersed Jewish community on the basis of the Torah and with an emphasis on the law....
), Sulayman (Solomon), Ethan
Ethan (Hebrew Bible)

Ethan the Ezrahite, is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. It may be that Ethan was a cymbals-player in King David's court. He authored Psalm 89. Charles Spurgeon theorized that this was the same person as Jeduthun....
, Heman
Heman (Bible)

Heman the Ezrahite is described as the author of Psalm 88 in the Bible. The name Heman is also listed as an ancestor of Jerimoth in Books of Chronicles....
 and Asaph
Asaph

Asaph may refer to:* Asaph Hall, 19th century astronomer* Saint Asaph, first Bishop of the Diocese of Saint Asaph in Wales* Asaph ben Berekhyah , jewish physician ...
. Many of the chapters state at the beginning who wrote that particular chapter. The Zabur contains 150 chapters or songs which are broken down into 5 sections as follows:

First Section -- chapters 1 to 41
Second Section -- chapters 42 to 72
Third Section -- chapters 73 to 89
Fourth Section -- chapters 90 to 106
Fifth Section -- chapters 107 to 150


Mention of Zabur in the Quran

In the Koran, the Zabur is mentioned by name only three times. The Koran itself says nothing about the Zabur specifically, except that it was revealed to David, king of Israel and that in Zabur is written "My servants the righteous, shall inherit the earth". Used translation Yusuf-Ali:
  • We have sent thee inspiration, as We sent it to Noah and the Apostle after him: we sent inspiration to Ibrahim (Abraham), Isma'il, Ishaq (Isaac), Yaqoob (Jacob) and the Tribes, to Isa (Jesus), Job, Yunus (Jonah), Harun (Aaron) and Sulaiman (Solomon), and to David We gave the Psalms. (4:163)
  • And it is your Lord that knoweth best all beings that are in the heavens and on earth: We did bestow on some prophets more (and other) gifts than on others: and We gave to David (the gift of) the Psalms. (17:55)
  • Before this We wrote in the Psalms, after the Message (given to Moses): My servants the righteous, shall inherit the earth." (21:105)


Parallel of Surah 21:105 with Psalms

The last reference is of interest because of the quotation from Psalm 37 verse 29 which says, "The righteous shall inherit the land and dwell therein for ever". (King James Version)

According to Ahrens (1930) the last reference is quoted from Psalms. He says that the verse in Qu'ran reads "We have written in the Zabur after the reminder that My righteous servants shall inherit the earth." His conclusion is that this verse represent a close and rare linguistic parallel with the Hebrew Bible
Hebrew Bible

The term Hebrew Bible is a generic reference to those books of the Bible originally written mostly in Biblical Hebrew with some Biblical Aramaic....
 and more pointedly, with Psalm 37 ascribed specifically to David (see verses 9, 11, 29 which refer to the meek, the righteous or “those who wait upon the Lord” as they who shall inherit the earth).

Many Muslims scholars think that it also has reference to Exodus
Exodus

Exodus is the second book of the Jewish Torah and of the Christian Old Testament. It tells how Moses leads the Israelites out of Egypt and through the wilderness to the Mountain of God Sinai....
 32:13, which reads "Remember Abraham, Isaac and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swearest by thine own self and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed and they shall inherit it for ever" (KJV)

Zabur in Hadith

One hadith, considered valid by Bukhari, says: Narrated Abu Huraira, Muhammad
Muhammad

Muhammad Patronymic#Arabic Abd Allah ibn Abd al Muttalib , is the founder of the Major religious groups of Islam and is regarded by Muslims as a Rasul and prophet of , the last and the greatest law-bearer in a series of prophets....
 said,
"The reciting of the Zabur was made easy for David
David

David , was the second king of the united Kingdom of Israel according to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. He is depicted as a righteous king, although not without fault, as well as an acclaimed warrior, musician and poet ....
. He used to order that his riding animals be saddled, and would finish reciting the Zabur before they were saddled. And he would never eat but from the earnings of his manual work."


Zabur and Kethubim

A well-known Christian apologist, C. G. Pfander went as far to say that the Qur'an's reference to the Psalms is actually a reference to the third division of the Hebrew Scriptures, known as the Writings or Kethubim.

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See also

  • Injil
    Injil

    The Injil The word Injil is derived from Greek language word ??a??????? .Muslims generally believe the Gospel or the New Testament to have been tahrif over time....
  • sabians
    Sabians

    The Sabians were a religious group. Most of what is currently known about them comes from what has been written about them by Maimonides and the primary Classical Arabic sources....
  • Suhuf Ibrahim
  • Tawrat
    Tawrat

    Tawrat is the Arabic transliteration of the Hebrew language word Torah which Muslims believe was a Islamic holy books given by Allah to Islamic view of Moses ....
  • Sheba
    Sheba

    Sheba was a southern kingdom mentioned in the Tanakh and the Qur'an. The actual location of the historical kingdom is disputed between southern Arabia and the Horn of Africa; the kingdom may have been situated in either present-day Ethiopia or present-day Yemen, or both....