Why Only Two Contemporaries Mentioned In Quran By Name
Mentioning of Zaid bin Haritha (rta) in Quran 33:37 seems to be at a very critical juncture, where old tradition was about to be abrogated and the flow with which verses were going. It appears that both these factors could have contributed to mentioning of Zaid (rta) by name. I.e. No ambiguity should have been left because of sensitivity of the issue at hand and the flow of the verses was complemented by mentioning of the name.