Islamic Prophets Family Tree | The Bible and Quran Compared

Last year on this channel I made a series of videos about the biblical

family

tree

that focused mainly on characters from the Hebrew Bible, a book used by both Jews and Christians. Well, today I will show you the

family

tree

of the Islamic

prophets

. specifically the 25

prophets

who are mentioned by name in the Quran, you will notice that many of the names in the Islamic tree are more or less the same as the names in the biblical tree, however, there are some subtle differences, so a As we go I will point them out in my video on Jesus.

I made it clear that I am not a Christian myself and therefore approached the topic from a purely academic perspective. Since this video is about the Quran, I feel I should also mention that I am not a Muslim and therefore will once again approach the topic as an academic, not as a follower of the religion. If you would like a copy of this poster or the Biblical Family Tree poster, you can visit it. to our website usefulcharts.com, so the first thing you will notice about the Islamic version of the family tree is that it does not include any images of the various people who appear in it.

Most people are familiar with the fact that Muslims consider drawing offensive. or make a realistic representation of the prophet muhammad. Well, generally speaking, this rule applies to all Islamic prophets, not just Muhammad, that's why I chose to use icons made with calligraphy and by the way, the artwork was done by my good friend siawish from Islamic history channel al-mukhama, so we appreciate your great work as the biblical family tree. The Islamic version begins with Adam and Eve, the first man and first woman, although in Islam Eve is often called hawa, another important difference. What I should point out is the fact that the 25 individuals highlighted in the Islamic chart are considered prophets, while in the biblical chart the word benefit is only used for certain individuals like Moses or Elijah, so for example in Islam Adam is seen. as a prophet, while in Judaism and Christianity he is not, according to an Islamic tradition Adam and Hawa had two sets of twins, a boy called Kabil who had a twin sister called Iklimia and a boy called Habil who had a twin sister called Help those familiar with the Bible will recognize the two boys as Cain and Abel.

Anyway, Adam arranged for Kabil to marry Habil's twin sister and for Habil to marry Kabil's twin sister, but as the story goes, Kabil became angry because he felt that his own twin sister was more attractive. and therefore, he wanted to marry her. This, along with other reasons, eventually led to Kabil killing his younger brother, Habil, so the line continues through a third brother known as sheth or seth now in my video about the biblical version of this tree, much people I asked if Adam and Eve were the first humans to do good to Set Maria according to the various Abrahamic traditions.

Adam and Eve had many other children besides those listed by name and therefore Seth would presumably have married one of his sisters, but at this point I must remind you. you that according to my own opinion and the opinion of most professional historians today, when it comes to these early stories, we are actually dealing with mythology, not real history, so we should not interpret the details as literal anyway, however, I also want to point out that I have discovered that viewing Adam and Eve as non-historical does not automatically make a person an atheist. I'm actually Jewish, and although I see most of the Bible as myth and legend, I still find it to be a pretty important book.

I know that many Other Jews, as well as many Christians and Muslims, hold similar positions, but since this video is simply about the family tree as traditionally understood by Islam, I won't go into the various scientific and theological debates for now, let's keep watching the tree next time. The chief prophet in Islam is Idris and he is generally considered the equivalent of the biblical Enoch. In fact, all the names from Shaith to Idris and beyond practically match the names given in the Hebrew Bible, the spelling of which is based on Arabic is a little different according to Islamic tradition.

Idris was the first human being to use a pen and the first to pursue astronomy and other sciences. He was also New's great-grandfather, better known in the West as Noah. You will notice that I made the news box a little larger, as well as several of the other later boxes, such as ibrahims and muses, this is because these prophets are known as ulul azmi or arch prophets, lul azmi literally means the unbreakable and Of the 25, only five are given. This special designation, of course, is best known for being the man who built the ark and thus survived the great flood along with some other humans and a group of animals.

A main difference between the Bible version and the Quran version is that in the Quran Nu had four children instead of only three and that his fourth son drowned in the flood as did Neu's wife in both cases because They did not believe Noah's message the next two prophets Hud and they are not characters found in the Hebrew Bible Hud could correspond to a briefly mentioned descendant of Noah called Eber, but Salih is not mentioned at all, however, in the Quran there is A story about a tribe in Arabia called Thamud who demanded Salih give them a sign from Allah.

Now keep in mind that in Arabic Allah simply means god, it's not a proper name or anything, so I'll use the two terms Allah and God interchangeably. Anyway, in response to the demand, God had a camel miraculously appear from a stone and provide them with milk every two days, but eventually the people were injured. the camel and for this his city was destroyed in an earthquake, now we come to the second of the five arch-prophets, Ibrahim, better known to Christians and Jews as Abraham, at this point there is a very important division in the tree, as well as several important differences between the Quranic version of events and the biblical version of events according to both traditions Ibrahim had two main sons Ismail and Ishaq, also known as Ishmael and Isaac Ismail is the ancestor of the Arab people and therefore of the prophet Muhammad , while ishaq is the ancestor of the banu.

Israel, which means the house of Israel, Islamic tradition has many stories about Ibrahim that are not found in the Bible, for example, there is much more information about Ibrahim's life in Mesopotamia before he traveled to the land of Canaan. A famous story throws him into a great fire for promoting monotheism and in that story he emerges unscathed, but the most important difference between the Islamic version of Ibrahim's life and the biblical version concerns the sacrifice of his son in the Bible to Ibrahim is ordered to sacrifice his second son, Ishaq, while in the Qur'an, although the name of the son is not given, it is generally understood that the person at the sacrifice was Ibrahim's first-born son, Ismail in Islam, both Isma 'il and ishaq are considered prophets, as well as ibrahim's nephew, lut lut, is the equivalent of The Biblical Fate and in Islam the story of God destroying the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah closely reflects the biblical story.

However, Islamic tradition has many more details about Ismail, according to Muslims. Ibrahim took Ismail to Mecca, where together they built the Kaaba that is today. the holiest place in islam when muslims pray they always pray in the direction of the kaaba and one of the pillars of islam is the requirement to make a pilgrimage to the kaaba at least once in a person's life if they can. There is a famous story. That happened just after the Kaaba was built when Ibrahim was about to leave Ismail with his mother Hagar in Mecca Hagar asked who would take care of us to which Ibrahim replied that Allah will do it after they are left alone they will eventually be left without Water and Hagar runs between two nearby hills Safa and Marwa seven times searching for water When he returns to Ismail empty-handed a miraculous spring suddenly appears which is now known as the Zamzam well Today the pilgrimage to Mecca often includes traveling between the two hills seven times as Hagar did and then a drink from the well, all the remaining prophets come from the line of ishaq with the exception of shuib and muhammad after ishaq came his son yakub, who is jacob and yusuf, who is joseph In the Quran, most prophets are often mentioned in passing. here and there throughout the book rather than in one place, however, Yusuf is unique in that his story is told well as a story.

The chapter of the Quran dealing with Yusuf is one of the most detailed narratives in the entire book. In general, the story. It follows the biblical story with some additional details. Basically, Jakub had 12 children, of which Yusuf was his favorite. His other brothers were jealous and ended up throwing him into a well where he ended up being sold as a slave to a man in Egypt. . called al-aziz who in the

bible

is known as potiphar years later al-aziz's wife falls in love with yusuf in the christian tradition the name of potiphar's wife is not given but in the

islamic

tradition she is zulekha because zulekha yusuf He is finally imprisoned where he ends up becoming known as a person who can interpret dreams to sum up, he ends up correctly interpreting the Pharaoh's dreams so he is then appointed vizier or prime minister of the entire country the next two prophets do not come from It is believed that the line of yakub in Islam Ayub, known as Job in the Bible, was a descendant of Youkub's brother, also known as Esau, while Shoib is believed to have been a descendant of another son of Ibrahim known as Madiyan, interestingly, although Islam originated in Arabia. only four of the 25 prophets named in the Quran lived there, Shoib is one of those four, the others are Hud and Salih, who I mentioned earlier, and of course Muhammad.

I should also mention that although only 25 prophets are mentioned in the Quran, it is understood traditionally. that there were about 124,000 prophets so maybe there were more in arabia that just weren't mentioned anyway most scholars believe that shoib is the person called jethro in the hebrew

bible

he was a priest in the land of Midian, which is located next to the Sinai Peninsula and it was his daughter Sephora in Hebrew Ziporah who became the wife of the next great prophet of Islam Musa Musa better known in the English speaking world as Moses was the third of the five ullul azmi or arch prophets and in fact his name is mentioned in the Quran more than any other prophet and appears a total of 135 times.

Musa and his brother Haroon, known in English as Aaron, are primarily associated with the story of the exodus. I won't go into that story in this video because most people are. I'm already familiar with it and I'll also do a full episode on Moses next week, but I will mention that Musa is the first of the four prophets associated with the giving of a holy book, obviously the Quran is the holiest book in Islam. However, there are three other books that Muslims consider sacred and all three are mentioned by name in the Quran itself. The first is the tarat, better known as the Torah, which was supposedly written by Musa due to his association with the Torah Musa. o Moses is, of course, one of the most important prophets of Judaism and, in fact, he is generally considered the founder of the Jewish religion, as I said.

Next week I will do a full episode on Moses, particularly looking at his potential existence from a historical perspective, so I won't say much about him now, next we come to the most mysterious of the 25 prophets, vu kifil. In fact, some Muslim scholars do not consider this person to have been a prophet at all; he is only mentioned in the Quran twice. and there is no agreement on which biblical character, if any, he might correspond with the main theory is that he is the same person as the biblical prophet ezekiel, but again this is debated, the only thing we really know about him is that he preached in Babylon and that his name means owner of the double, the following on the list are the only two individuals who, at the same time as being prophets, also held the title of king Dawud and Suleiman in English David and Solomon this father and son couple descend from a son of yakub called yahudah or judah, while musa and haroon come from a son called lawy or levi, as musa daoud is associated with a specific holy book, in this case a book called zaboor, generally speaking, it is believed that the zaboor corresponds to the book of the bible known as In the Psalms, I will also note that Suleiman is a name that has been used by many Islamic monarchs over the centuries, especially by the greatest of the Ottoman sultans Suleiman.

The next magnificent is the prophet Ilyas and his successor Aliyasa, who are believed in Islamic tradition to be descendants of Haroon and to correspond to the biblical Elijah and Elisha, as in the Bible in Islam. Elijah is said to have prophesied during the reign of an Israelite king named Ahab. If you saw my series onbiblical genealogy, you see We know that Ahab is important because he is one of the first characters in the Bible and therefore also in the Islamic tradition, for which we have indisputable evidence in the archaeological record of Islam. Ilias is often associated with a figure called Kidr, although he is not mentioned by name in the Quran, Kiddur appears in the accounts of several prophets, particularly Elijah, who exactly Kidr was or is is up for debate, some see him as a kind of angel while others see him more as a saint.

I should also mention that although Ilias or Elijah are not considered one of the arch prophets of Islam. They are generally considered one of the two most important prophets of Judaism. The other is Moses. Okay, another prophet mentioned in the Quran is Yunus, who corresponds to the biblical Jonah. who was the prophet who was swallowed by a giant fish, then we come to zachariah yahya and issa, all characters that appear in the christian new testament, not in the hebrew bible that christians call the old testament, zachariah was a priest and was the father of yahya, who in the new testament is known as john the baptist according to the

quran

zacharia's wife had a sister who was married to an old man named imran imran was maryam's father but then after imran's death maryam She was under the tutelage of her uncle Zakaria Maryam is, of course, the woman best known to Christians as Mary, however, Maryam is also a very important figure in Islam, in fact, some Muslims, although a small minority, They see Maryam as a prophet, of course, even better. known that maryam is her son isa known by christians as jesus in both christianity and islam it is said that mary gave birth to jesus as a virgin however, according to christians, jesus had a father and that father was god, but According to Islam, Isa simply had him, he has no father, so for Muslims Isa is not the son of God, however, he is considered the messiah and one of the five arch prophets.

He is said to have received the third of the four holy books of Islam, a book called injil. injil means The Gospel and Muslims believe that there was once an original gospel revealed to Isa, but now lost, on which the four surviving gospels of the New Testament were based. The last thing to note about Isa is that many Muslims, like many Christians, believe in some type of second coming or return. of jesus that will happen at the end of the story, well now we come to the most important prophet of islam, the fifth of the five ullul azmi, the prophet muhammad according to islam, muhammad was the last prophet and therefore he is known as katam an nbn, which means in other words, the seal of the prophets after muhammad allah's direct communication with his human servants ended and was sealed according to islam, allah revealed to muhammad the final and most important book of all the

quran

, but for muslims the quran is not just a book, it is the literal word of god and not a single part of it can be changed or even properly translated into another language, it differs from the bible in that, while the bible Generally considered divinely inspired, Muslims believe that the Quran was not simply inspired by God.

It was literally dictated word for word in classical Arabic by Allah to Muhammad, as I mentioned above. Muhammad is said to be a descendant of Isma'il. Genealogy is not actually given in the Quran, but there is a well-established tradition tracing its line. Going back to a patrilineal ancestor named Adnan, who in turn was said to be a descendant of Isma'il from the early Islamic tradition, we also have many details about the immediate family of the Prophet Muhammad, for example we know the name of his father and his mother. and many of his wives, the first of whom was named Khadijah, only four of his biological children lived to adulthood, the four being daughters he had with Khadijah, however, of these four daughters, only one Fatima has descendants who They are still alive today through their children Hassan and Hussein Fatima married Muhammad's first cousin Ali According to Shia Muslims, Ali was Muhammad's rightful successor, while according to Sunni Muslims Muhammad was first succeeded by his father-in-law Abu Bakr, second by his father-in-law Umar, third by his son.

Brother-in-law Utman and then the fourth for Ali. Sunni Muslims consider these four men to be the first four caliphs of Islam and refer to them as the Rashidun, that is, the rightly guided after the death of Ali. The caliphate was in the hands of the Umayyads for the first time. dynasty the family of Utman and then by the Abbasid dynasty it can be seen in the table that these dynasties indicate that the Amayas used the white flag and the Abbasids used the black flag were closely related to the prophet, however, neither were their descendants for more information.

In the family tree of Muhammad, as well as the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphs, you can watch the two videos made on this topic using useful graphics and Al Mukadma. I'll leave a link to the ones in the description. Finally, remember how I mentioned before. He would be doing a full episode on Moses next week. Well, that video will actually be part of a series that will also include videos from the Let's Talk About Religion channel and Al Mukharma, while I, as a Jew, will talk about the historical evidence of Moses. let's talk about religion, we will discuss the historical evidence of Jesus and al-mukharima will discuss the historical evidence of Muhammad, so if you are interested in learning more about the history surrounding the last prophet of Islam, as well as Musa and Issa, you.

You'll want to keep an eye on this one more time. If you want a copy of this poster, you can go to our website usefulcharts.com, thanks for watching.