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Qurʾān Bukhārī Muslim Nasāʾī Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Ibn Mājah Mālik Aḥmad Dārimī Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
quran:96:2 –

Created man from a clinging substance.  

created man (al-insān: the generic) from a blood-clot (‘alaq is the plural of ‘alaqa, which is a small quantity of congealing blood).
القرآن:٩٦:٢ –

خَلَقَ الْإِنْسَانَ مِنْ عَلَقٍ  

{خلق الإنسان} الجنس {من علق} جمع علقة وهي القطعة اليسيرة من الدم الغليظ.

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