Psalms in Islam
Zabur is, according to Islam, the holy book of David, one of the holy books revealed by Allah before the Quran, alongside others such as the Tawrāh and the Injīl. Muslim tradition maintains that the Zabur mentioned in the Quran is the Psalms of Dawud.
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, मज़्मूर ) is used for the Psalms of David in the Hebrew Bible. The Hebrew term is mizmor מזמור.
Etymology
The Arabic word wiktionary:زبور| 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", or its Aramaic equivalent .
An alternate, less accepted origin for the title in this sense is that it is a corruption of the Hebrew meaning "song, music" or , meaning "story."
Mention in the Quran
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".Connection to the Psalms
In the Quran and Urdu translation of the Bible, the Zabur refers to the Psalms. The Quran 21:105 says that in the Zabur there is a quote "the land is inherited by my righteous servants". This resembles the 29th verse of Psalm 37, which says "he righteous shall inherit the land, and abide forever in it."Ahrens supports the view that al-Anbiya 105 is quoting from the Psalms. He says that the verse in the Qur'an reads, "We have written in the Zabur after the reminder that My righteous servants shall inherit the earth." His conclusion is that this verse represents a close and rare linguistic parallel with the Hebrew Bible and, more pointedly, with Psalm 37 ascribed specifically to David.