Ibrāhīm ﷺ
إبراهيمCommonly rendered in English as Abraham.
Argued with his idol-carving father, shattered the idols, was thrown into the fire, survived; took his family to the wilderness of Makkah and raised the Kaaba with his son Ismāʿīl.
- Era
- c. 2000 BCE traditional
- Region
- Ur → al-Shām → Makkah
- Sent to
- Nations of the Near East
Passages that mention Ibrāhīm
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"Leave me for a prolonged period meaning cut off from me and leave me for a long time thereupon Abraham said to him"
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"They will have security and they are rightly guided such were the arguments we gave to Abraham against his people"
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"Do you desire my gods Oh Abraham if you do not stop I will surely stone you so leave me for a prolonged period"
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"Thus did we show Abraham the realm of the heavens and the earth that he might be of those possessing certainty"
Hear the prophetic story in full.
Ibn Kathir's Stories of the Prophets, narrated chapter by chapter in the Joyful Muslims app.