ABSTRACT
The declaration of David M. Freidenreich in Chronicles takes a particular sense if reread in light of the Late Antique rabbinic account of the “four who entered paradise.” The numerous links between the father and the son, which one also finds in some apocryphal texts, manifest themselves in the Qur’an by many elements, an inventory of which it is important to establish. This chapter shows that the passage related to Solomon’s repentance fulfills in reality a double theological function in the Qur’an. The wind, a natural phenomenon subjected to Solomon, can be put in parallel with the mountains subjected to David, and both men speak to the birds. Solomon dominates the demons, while David has the ability to make the natural elements and the birds “sing the divine praise.” The parallelism between the situations of David and of Solomon appears indeed in relation to the mastery of the elements of nature, in view of making them celebrate the divine praise.
