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Yahya

يحيى

Draft card for Yahya ibn Zakariya, the prophet announced to his aged father in the Qur'an, named by God a name given to none before; its sources are not yet checked on the page.

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Era
Pre-Islamic Arabia
Identifiers
Wikidata
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Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it

Prophets

Place in the story

  • ProphetScriptural

Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

The long-form text for this entry has not been written yet. The facts and connections below come from the museum's data.

People and things also explored

Abraham and the one who argued with him about his Lord· al-Amin, the Trustworthy (the Prophet's title before his mission)· Delivery of the message and the limit of the Prophet's charge· Raising the foundations of the House: who built the Ka'ba· The religious bequest: submission until death· Badr as a sign and a lesson· Belief in the messengers without distinction· The completion of the final message of earlier ones

Sources

  • Tanzil Project, Qur'an text v1.1
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islam.museum contributors. “Yahya”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/yahya/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-19.

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People

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Abraham and the one who argued with him about his Lord

Sha'rawi reads the one who argued with Abraham about his Lord as the agent of the argument, with Abraham as its object. He declines to name him, holds that the vagueness is intended so the lesson applies in every age, and answers those who name him. He reports that Abraham moved the argument from giving life and death to the rising of the sun.