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The Bible and the Quran have many characters in common, many of which are mentioned by name, whereas others are merely referred to. This article is a list of people named or referred to in both the Bible and the Quran.
Abrahamic religions make up the largest major division in the study of comparative religion. [6] By total number of adherents, Christianity and Islam comprise the largest and second-largest religious movements in the world, respectively. [7] [page needed] Judaism is the smallest of the three major Abrahamic religions. Samaritanism is the smallest Abrahamic religion. The Baháʼí Faith ...
Christianity and Islam are the two largest religions in the world, with 2.8 billion and 1.9 billion adherents, respectively. [1] [2] Both religions are considered as Abrahamic, and are monotheistic, originating in the Middle East .
The Torah found in the Hebrew Bible and Christian Bible is a compilation of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, namely the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. [15] The Torah is known as the Pentateuch or the Five Books of Moses by Christians.
The Mahdi is mentioned in several canonical compilations of hadith, but is absent from the Quran and the two most-revered Sunni hadith collections, Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim. Thus, some Sunni theologians have questioned the orthodoxy of the Mahdi. [1] The doctrine of the Mahdi seems to have gained traction during the confusion and unrest of the religious and political upheavals of the ...
The Christian delegation withdrew from the challenge and negotiated a peace treaty, either immediately, or when Muhammad arrived for the mubahala with his family, according to the majority of Islamic traditions. This episode has been linked to certain verses of the Quran, the central religious text of Islam, particularly verse 3:61.
The compound, located in the ancient city of Hebron, is the second holiest site for Jews (after the Temple Mount in Jerusalem ), and is also venerated by Christians and Muslims, both of whom have traditions which maintain that the site is the burial place of three Biblical couples: Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca, and Jacob and Leah.
Al-Masih ad-Dajjal ( Arabic: ٱلْمَسِيحُ ٱلدَّجَّالُ, romanized : al-Masīḥ ad-Dajjāl, lit. 'Deceitful Messiah'), [1] otherwise referred to simply as the Dajjal, is an evil figure in Islamic eschatology who will pretend to be the promised Messiah and later claim to be God, appearing before the Day of Judgment according to the Islamic eschatological narrative. [1] [2] The ...