3. Sura al-Imran

The Quranic Text & Ali’s Version:

وَرَسُولاً إِلَى بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ ...

3: 49. "And (appoint him) a Messenger to the Children of Israel, (with this message):

... أَنِّي قَدْ جِئْتُكُم بِآيَةٍ مِّن رَّبِّكُمْ...

I have come to you, with a sign from your Lord,

...أَنِّي أَخْلُقُ لَكُم مِّنَ الطِّينِ كَهَيْئَةِ الطَّيْرِ فَأَنفُخُ فِيهِ فَيَكُونُ طَيْرًا بِإِذْنِ اللّهِ...

in that I make for you out of clay, as it were, the figure of a bird, and breathe into it, and it becomes a bird by Allah's leave;

C390. This miracle of the clay birds is found in some of the apocryphal Gospels; those of curing the blind and the lepers and raising the dead are in the canonical Gospels.

The original Gospel (see 3:48) was not the various stories written afterwards by disciples, but the real Message taught direct by Jesus.

...وَأُبْرِىءُ الأكْمَهَ والأَبْرَصَ وَأُحْيِـي الْمَوْتَى بِإِذْنِ اللّهِ...

and I heal those born blind, and the lepers, and I quicken the dead, by Allah's leave;

...وَأُنَبِّئُكُم بِمَا تَأْكُلُونَ وَمَا تَدَّخِرُونَ فِي بُيُوتِكُمْ ...

and I declare to you what ye eat, and what ye store in your houses.

C391. This clause refers generally to a prophetic knowledge of what is not known to other people.

...إِنَّ فِي ذَلِكَ لآيَةً لَّكُمْ إِن كُنتُم مُّؤْمِنِينَ ﴿٤٩﴾

Surely therein is a Sign for you if ye did believe.

Other versions:

3: 49

Yusuf Ali "And (appoint him) an Apostle to the Children of Israel (with this message): I have come to you with a sign from your Lord in that I make for you out of clay as it were the figure of a bird and breathe into it and it becomes a bird by Allah's leave; and I heal those born blind and the lepers and I quicken the dead by Allah's leave; and I declare to you what ye eat and what ye store in your houses. Surely therein is a Sign for you if ye did believe.

Pickthall And will make him a messenger unto the children of Israel, (saying): Lo! I come unto you with a sign from your Lord. Lo! I fashion for you out of clay the likeness of a bird, and I breathe into it and it is a bird, by Allah's leave. I heal him who was born blind, and the leper, and I raise the dead, by Allah's leave. And I announce unto you what ye eat and what ye store up in your houses. Lo! herein verily is a portent for you, if ye are believers.

Transliteration Wa rasu_lan ila_ bani isra_'il(a), anni qad ji'tukum bi a_yatim mir rabbikum anni akhluqu lakum minat tini ka hai'atit tairi fa anfukhu fihi fa yaku_nu tairam bi iznilla_h(i), wa unabbi'ukum bima_ ta'kulu_na wa ma_ taddakhiru_na fi buyu_tikum, inna fi za_lika la a_yatal lakum in kuntum mu'minin(a).

3;45 speaks in his cradle, 3;49 made a bird of clay alive