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Yahya

يحيى
Definition

John the Baptist — son of Zakariyya, named directly by Allah (a name 'never given before,' Qur'an 19:7), martyred for refusing to legitimize an unlawful marriage of a king.

As understood in the classical tradition of Ibn Kathir and the scholars of his school.

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