“Allah, the Most High, revealed to ʿImrān: “I will grant you a righteous and blessed son who will cure the blind and the leper and bring the dead back to life by Allah’s permission. I will make him a messenger to the Children of Israel.” ʿImrān conveyed this to his wife, Ḥannah, the mother of Maryam. When she became pregnant, she assumed the child in her womb was a boy. However, when she gave birth, she said: “O my Lord, I have delivered a female.” Allah says: “And the male is not like the female,” meaning that a daughter cannot be a messenger. Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, affirms: “And Allah knows best what she delivered.”
When Allah granted Maryam her son, ʿĪsā, he was the fulfillment of the glad tidings and promise given to ʿImrān. Thus, if we mention something about a man among us and it comes to pass in his offspring or their descendants, do not find it strange.”