Ibrahim (Abraham)
إبراهيم
The patriarch of the Adnani Arabs in the sira’s telling: emigrant from Ur of the Chaldeans to Harran and then Palestine, who settled Hajar and the infant Ismail in the barren valley of Mecca, visited them on recorded journeys, submitted to the command of the sacrifice, and raised the foundations of the Kaaba with his son before calling mankind to the hajj.
At a glance
- Era
- Pre-Islamic Arabia
- Region
- Arabia
- Review
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In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
ProphetsFamily, marriage and kinship
Place in the story
- ProphetScriptural
Hanif (documented)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Ibrahim, father of the Arabised Arabs in the Sira's telling: emigrant from Ur to Harran then Palestine; settler of Hagar and Isma'il in Mecca; raiser of the House's foundations; caller of the people to pilgrimage.
Life
Ibrahim's origin is in the land of Iraq, in a town called Ur on the western bank of the Euphrates near Kufa 1. He emigrated from it to Harran, then to Palestine which he made the base of his call, and once came to Egypt 1.
God gave him, by Hagar, Isma'il, and revealed to him that he bring her and her child to Mecca, settling them in a barren valley by the place of the House 1. The sources preserve for him four journeys to Mecca: the journey of settlement, the journey of the sacrifice, the two journeys of testing the wives, and the journey of raising the foundations 1.
The legacy
For young visitors
Ibrahim is a prophet who travelled from Iraq to Palestine, placed his wife and son in Mecca, then built God's House with his son and called the people to visit it.
Connections
- Spouse of
- Hajar (Hagar)
- Child of
- Azar (Terah)
- Built
- The Kaaba
- Lived in
- Palestine
- Traveled to
- Mecca
- Parent of
- Ismail (Ishmael)
- Participated in
- The Raising of the Kaaba’s FoundationsThe Command to Sacrifice IsmailThe Settlement of Hajar and Ismail at Mecca
People and things also explored
Ismail (Ishmael)MeccaThe Settlement of Hajar and Ismail at MeccaHajar (Hagar)The KaabaThe Raising of the Kaaba’s FoundationsThe Command to Sacrifice IsmailPre-Islamic Arabia
Sources
- al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri
- Tarikh al-Rusul wa-l-Muluk — al-Tabari
- Sahih al-Bukhari
- The Book of Genesis
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Ibrahim (Abraham)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibrahim/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-12.