The Qur’an may mention an event with a brief allusion in one passage and describe several stages elsewhere. Each presentation can be complete for its own purpose. A passing reference suffices when the audience is already familiar with an incident; expanded narration helps when several dimensions of the call, dialogue, trial or outcome matter.
Brevity enables a swift movement toward the lesson. Detail enables readers to trace motives, actions and consequences. The absence of a given episode from one passage need not make that passage deficient; the episode may simply be irrelevant to its rhetorical goal.
An account of a single prophet can accordingly stress rejection in one place, perseverance in another, and deliverance in a third. The perspectives complete rather than necessarily contradict one another, provided the context and function of each Qur’anic presentation are respected.