Text of verse 37:101
فَبَشَّرْنَٰهُ بِغُلَٰمٍ حَلِيمٍ ١٠١
Transliteration
fabasharnāhu bighulāmin ḥalīmin
Translation
So We gave him good tidings of a forbearing boy.
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Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hussary
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Surah As-Saffat, Verse 101
سورة الصافات، الآية ١٠١
Verse 101 of Surah As-Saffat (37:101), a Meccan surah, is in juz 23, on page 449 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.
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Tafsir of verse 101
Al-Mukhtasar
So I answered his supplication for him and gave him news which pleased him, when I gave him the good news of a child who would grow old and become forbearing. This child was Ishmael (peace be upon him).
Other translations of verse 101
So We gave him glad tidings of a forbearing boy23.
Notes
[23] i.e., Ishmael
So We gave him the glad tidings of a forbearing boy.
So We gave him tidings of a gentle son.
So We gave him the good news of a boy ready to suffer and forbear.
So We gave him the good news of a boy, possessing forbearance.
So We gave him the good tidings of a forbearing youth.
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Verses related to verse 101
Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse
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Al-Hijr 15:53
قَالُوا۟ لَا تَوْجَلْ إِنَّا نُبَشِّرُكَ بِغُلَٰمٍ عَلِيمٍ
[The angels] said, "Fear not. Indeed, we give you good tidings of a learned boy."
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Hud 11:71
وَٱمْرَأَتُهُۥ قَآئِمَةٌ فَضَحِكَتْ فَبَشَّرْنَٰهَا بِإِسْحَٰقَ وَمِن وَرَآءِ إِسْحَٰقَ يَعْقُوبَ
And his wife was standing, and she smiled. Then We gave her good tidings of Isaac and after Isaac, Jacob.