Isma'il or Isaac- the Son of Promise

Sura 2:136 Say ye: “We believe in God, and the revelation given to us, and to Abraham, Isma'il, Isaac, Jacob, and the Tribes, and that given to Moses and Jesus, and that given to (all) prophets from their Lord: We make no difference between one and another of them: And we bow to God (in Islam).”

Does Islam believe the prophets of Israel's story in the Bible. The Quran does not teach that Ismai'l was sacrificed in the place of Isaac.

Sura 37:100 O my Lord! Grant me a righteous (son)!" 104-109: We called out to him "O Abraham! "Thou hast already fulfilled the vision!" - thus indeed do We reward those who do right. For this was obviously a trial- And We ransomed him with a momentous sacrifice: And We left (this blessing) for him among generations (to come) in later times: "Peace and salutation to Abraham!" How this can be made into the biblical account is beyond me. It has no details.The Quran does not tell us which of Abrahams two sons was to be sacrificed. Who is the righteous son

God had promised a son and numerous descendents to Abram, but time goes by and at the request of Sarah his wife wanting an offspring Abram wavers in faith and has a child (Ishmael) through Hagar his handmaiden. He favors Ishmael but God does not recognize him as the promise he spoke of. In Gen.17:1-7 God appears to Abram and tells him his name will now be called Abraham for He will be made a father to many nations. Gen 17:18-22 And Abraham said to God, Abraham said to God, “Oh, that Ishmael might live before You!” Then God said: “No, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his descendants after him. He shall beget twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation. But My covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this set time next year.” Gen 17:18-19 )

Remember Ishmael is from Hagar Abraham’s handmaiden not his wife. “Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram” (Gen 16:16)

“Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. (Gen 17:24-25)

Gen 21:8-14 So the child grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the same day that Isaac was weaned. And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, scoffing. Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast out this bondwoman and her son; for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, namely with Isaac.” And the matter was very displeasing in Abraham's sight because of his son. But God said to Abraham, “Do not let it be displeasing in your sight because of the lad or because of your bondwoman. Whatever Sarah has said to you, listen to her voice; for in Isaac your seed shall be called. “Yet I will also make a nation of the son of the bondwoman, because he is your seed.” So Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water; and putting it on her shoulder, he gave it and the boy to Hagar, and sent her away. Then she departed and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.”

Many years have passed, Ishmael is long gone with Hagar before Abraham is asked to bring his ONLY SON to be sacrificed on mount Moriah(that was in his teens, Josephus says (Antiquities 1.13.2), twenty-five). So it could not have been Ishmael by any stretch of the imagination. “Now it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”And He said, “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”(Gen 22:1-2)

As Abraham was in the process of carrying out God’s command (Gen. 22: 7-8) God’s messenger, the angel of the Lord calls out telling him to withhold his knife. The Angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” And He said, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.” Then Abraham lifted his eyes and looked, and there behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son. And Abraham called the name of the place THE-LORD-WILL-PROVIDE; as it is said to this day, “In the Mount of The LORD it shall be provided.” Then the Angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time out of heaven, and said: “By Myself I have sworn, says the LORD (Yahweh), because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son.”

We are told by the writer of Hebrews in 11:17-20 “By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, of whom it was said, “In Isaac your seed shall be called,” concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from which he also received him in a figurative sense.” Abraham knew the promise was made of a great nation through Isaac his seed, and so he acted in faith knowing that if he had gone through with the sacrifice God would have raised him up. Yet there was only one that God would indeed raise up on the same mount area, His only son Jesus Christ who is of the seed of Abraham.

Qur’an 3:84 “Say (Muhammad): ‘We believe in Allah and that which is revealed to us and that which was revealed unto Abraham and Ishmael, Isaac and Jacob and the tribes [of Israel], and in (the Books) given to Moses, Jesus, and the prophets, from their Lord.

As we can see they conceal the testimony of Abraham it was Isaac, it had to be.

The Quran goes further to say " No, Abraham in truth was not a Jew, neither a Christian, but he was a Muslim." Abraham is considered the first muslim because he submitted to Allah Sura 3:67 Abraham was not a Jew not yet a Christian but was an upright man who surrendered and he was not of the idolaters. (also sura 21:40)

The Bible calls him a Jew, Jesus who was a Jew aslo did- everyone does except the Muslims.

This goes back to Deut.18. “I will raise up a prophet like you from among the brethren" The Muslims position--prophet was to be raised from among the Ishmaelites, Israel never appointed a foreigner to rule over them, especially an Ishmaelite. To choose from among the brethren meant one had to come from one of the twelve tribes of Israel.

According to Muslim writers, the Kaaba was first built in heaven, where a model of it still remains, two thousand years before the creation of the world (much like the story of the Tabernacle that was given to Moses). Islam says It was Adam that erected the Kaaba on earth but this was destroyed during the Flood. Then Abraham was instructed to rebuild it, assisted by Ishmael.Ishmael met the angel Gabriel who gave him the Black Stone, which was then whiter than milk. Later it became black from the sins of those who touched it. Ishmael met the angel Gabriel, who gave him the Black Stone, which was then whiter than milk; it was only later that it became black from the sins of those who touched it.

Moslem scholars interpret it as symbolizing that part of Abraham's progeny (Ishmael and his offspring) which, rejected by Israel, became, they think, the founders of the Quraish tribe; they apply to it a passage from Psalm 118 -3:"The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner; this

Arabs are not (necessarily) descendants of Ishmael and Abraham never lived in Mecca. Ishmael Son of Abram and Hagar (Genesis 16:1); WAS promised blessing, that was to coem through Abrahams wife Sarah. God did not give Ishmael but Isaac. God said of Ishmael, "A wild donkey of a man, and his hand will be against everyone, and everyone's hand against him, and he will dwell (settle, encamp) in the presence ("in the face") of his brothers." See Genesis 16:112; 17:2-21; 21:8-21; 25:9,12-18....

However God did promise to make of Ishmael's offspring a great nation (Gen. 16:9-11; 17:20; 21:13,18; 25:12-18). Their ascent to world influence might well be viewed as a fulfillment of biblical prophecy.