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Since the Quran refers only parabolically to the stories of the prophets, assuming the audience is able to complete the rest from their own knowledge, it became necessary to store the version the original audience had in mind to keep the purpose of the message, when Islam met other cultures during its expansion.
Muslims believe that many prophets existed, including many not mentioned in the Quran. The Quran states: "And for every community there is a messenger." [1] [2] Belief in the Islamic prophets is one of the six articles of the Islamic faith. [3] Muslims believe that the first prophet was also the first human being Adam, created by God.
Al-Sīra al-Nabawiyya (Arabic: السيرة النبوية), commonly shortened to Sīrah and translated as prophetic biography, are the traditional biographies of the Islamic prophet Muhammad written by Muslim historians, from which, in addition to the Qurʾān and ḥadīth literature, most historical information about his life and the early history of Islam is derived.
Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum. Al-Anbiyaʼ [1] (Arabic: الأنبياء, ’al-’anbiyā’; meaning: "The Prophets") [2] is the 21st chapter of the Quran with 112 verses . Its principal subject matter is prophets of the past, who also preached the same faith as Muhammad.
Moses (Arabic: موسى ابن عمران Mūsā ibn ʿImrān, lit. ' Moses, son of Amram ') [1] is a prominent prophet and messenger of God and is the most frequently mentioned individual in the Quran, with his name being mentioned 136 times and his life being narrated and recounted more than that of any other prophet.
Ibn Isḥaq collected oral traditions about the life of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. These traditions, which he orally dictated to his pupils, [1] are now known collectively as Sīrat Rasūl Allāh (Arabic: سيرة رسول الله "Life of the Messenger of God"). His work is entirely lost and survives only in the following sources:
Hud's story epitomizes the prophetic cycle common to the early prophets mentioned in the Quran: the prophet is sent to his people to tell them to worship God only and tells them to acknowledge that it is God who is the provider of their blessings [9] The Quran [3] states: 11:50 And to the people of ’Âd We sent their brother Hûd.
He includes two prophets, Shem and Eleazar, not named in later literature as prophets. [3] The work often cites ʿAbd Allāh ibn Salām (d. 663), Kaʿb al-Aḥbār (d. c. 652), and Wahb ibn Munabbih (d. c. 730), who were understood as foundational authorities on pre-Islamic Abrahamic traditions in early Islam.