Ishmael
Sign in to saveIn the biblical Book of Genesis, Ishmael (; ; ; ) was the first son of Abraham. His mother was Hagar, the handmaiden of Abraham's wife Sarah. He died at the age of 137.
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Ishmael was the firstborn son of the biblical patriarch Abraham, born to Abraham's handmaiden Hagar rather than to Abraham's wife Sarah. According to the Book of Genesis, he lived to be 137 years old and is an important figure in the religious histories of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
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19 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Genesis narrative
- Birth
- Inheritance, rights and the first circumcision
- Descendants
- Family tree
- In various traditions
- Judaism
- Samaritanism
- Christianity
- Pre-Islamic Arabia
- Islam
- In the Quran
- Ishmael in Muslim literature
- Bahá'í Faith
- See also
- References
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In the biblical Book of Genesis, Ishmael (; ; ; ) was the first son of Abraham. His mother was Hagar, the handmaiden of Abraham's wife Sarah. He died at the age of 137.
Within Islam, Ishmael is regarded as a prophet and the ancestor of the Ishmaelites (Hagarenes or Adnanites) and patriarch of Qaydār.