Zabur

The Zabur (az-zabūr) is, according to Islam, the holy book of David, one of the holy books revealed by God before the Quran, alongside others such as the Tawrāh (Torah) and the Injīl (Gospel). Muslim tradition maintains that the Zabur mentioned in the Quran is the Psalms of David. The Christian monks and ascetics of pre-Islamic Arabia may be associated in pre-Islamic Arabic poetry with texts called mazmour, which in other contexts may refer to palm leaf documents. This has been interpreted by some as referring to psalters. Among many Christians in the Middle East and in South Asia, the word mazmour (Hindustani مزمور (Nastaʿlīq), ज़बूर (Devnagari)) is used for the Psalms of David in the Hebrew Bible. The Arabic word means "book" "inscription," or "writing." In early sources it may refer to Ancient South Arabian writing on palm leaves. Much of Western scholarship sees the word in the sense "psalter" as being a conflation of Arabic , "writing", with the Hebrew word for "psalm", (מִזְמוֹר) or its Aramaic equivalent (ܡܙܡܘܪܐ). An alternate, less accepted origin for the title in this sense is that it is a corruption of the Hebrew (זִמְרָה) meaning "song, music" or (), meaning "story." In the Qur'an, the Zabur is mentioned by name three times. The Qur'an itself says nothing about the Zabur specifically, except that it was revealed to Dawud and that in the Zabur is written "My servants the righteous, shall inherit the earth". Indeed, We have revealed to you, [O Muhammad], as We revealed to Noah and the prophets after him. And we revealed to Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, the Descendants, Jesus, Job, Jonah, Aaron, and Solomon, and to David We gave the book [of Psalms]. And your Lord is most knowing of whoever is in the heavens and the earth. And We have made some of the prophets exceed others [in various ways], and to David We gave the book [of Psalms]. And We have already written in the book [of Psalms] after the [previous] mention that the land [of Paradise] is inherited by My righteous servants. In the Quran, the Zabur refers to the Psalms.