Muslims & Luke’s Gospel

Luke quotes Jesus’ reply to a woman’s praise of the woman who birthed him:

“Now it happened that while Jesus was saying these things, one of the women in the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, ‘Blessed is the womb that bore You and the breasts at which You nursed.’ But He said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it.’” Luke 11:27-28

Interestingly, we find Luke’s recording of our Lord’s statements quoted in the following Muslim work:

حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عُبَيْدٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ سُفْيَانَ، عَنْ وَاصِلٍ الْأَحْدَبِ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، قَالَ: ⦗٥٨⦘ مَرَّتِ امْرَأَةٌ عَلَى عِيسَى ابْنِ مَرْيَمَ عليه السلام، فَقَالَتْ: طُوبَى لِحِجْرٍ حَمَلَكَ، وَلِثَدْيَيْنِ رَضَعْتَ مِنْهُمَا فَقَالَ عِيسَى: «طُوبَى لِمَنْ قَرَأَ كِتَابَ اللَّهِ ثُمَّ اتَّبَعَ مَا فِيهِ»

Abu Ubayd narrated to us; he said: Abd al-Rahman narrated to us, from Sufyan, from Wasil al-Ahdab, from Ibrahim, who said:

A woman passed by Jesus son of Mary and she said: “Blessed is the womb that carried you, and the two breasts from which you nursed.” So Jesus said: “Blessed is the one who recites the Book of Allah and then follows what is in it.” (Abu Ubayd al-Qasim ibn Sallam (d. 224), Virtues of the Qur’an, 41 Book: The Virtue of the Qur’an, Its Characteristics, and Its Etiquette: https://app.turath.io/book/12524)