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Surah 21. Al-Anbiya, Ayah 72

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وَوَهَبْنَا لَهُۥٓ إِسْحَـٰقَ وَيَعْقُوبَ نَافِلَةً ۖ وَكُلًّا جَعَلْنَا صَـٰلِحِينَ
Wawahabn a lahu is ha qa wayaAAqooba n a filatan wakullan jaAAaln a sa li h een a
And We bestowed upon him Isaac and Llsaac s son] Jacob as an additional gift,67 and caused all of them to be righteous men,
  - Mohammad Asad

I.e., in addition (nafilatan) to his eldest son Ishmael (Isma'll) who had been born years before Isaac.

We gave him a son Ishaq (Isaac) and then a grandson Ya'qoob (Jacob); and We made each of them a righteous man.
  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
And We blessed him with Isaac 'as a son' and Jacob 'as a grandson', as an additional favour- making all of them righteous.
  - Mustafa Khattab
And We bestowed upon him Isaac, and Jacob as a grandson. Each of them We made righteous.
  - Marmaduke Pickthall
And We bestowed on him Isaac and as an additional gift (a grandson) Jacob and We made righteous men of every one (of them). 2728
  - Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Nafilat has many meanings: (1) booty; (2) extra work or prayer; (3) extra or additional gift; (4) grandson. The two last significations are implied here. Not only was Abraham given a son in his old age; he was given not only Isaac, but several sons, the chief being Isma'il and Isaac, who both joined in burying him (Gen. xxv. 9); and he also saw grandsons. Isma'il is specially mentioned later (xxi. 85) apart from Isaac's line, on account of his special importance for Islam.

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