Everything about Ishmaelites totally explained
According to both
Biblical and
Qur'anic tradition,
Ibrahim (Abraham) had two wives:
Sarah and
Hagar. In the Bible Hagar is Sarah's Maid Servant (not Abraham's Wife) who was offered to Abraham to produce an off-spring. He had a son by each women:
Ismail (Ishmael) from Hagar and
Is'haq (Isaac) from Sarah. It was stated by God that each son would be the father of a nation. The Israelites descended from Isaac and the Ishmaelites from Ishmael.
Circumstances forced Ibrahim to leave Hagar and Ismail in what is now
Mecca. The children of Ismail are known as Banu Ismail or Ishmailities.
Muslims consider Arabs to be descendants of Ishmael. In Jewish and Christian traditions, the identification of the Ishmaelites, described in the Bible as a people of the Arabian wilderness, with Arabs began at least by the time of
Josephus, and became standard in the early days of Islam (in which the term "
Hagarenes", a pun on the Arabic
muhajir and the name of Hagar, was commonly used.) Efforts to reconcile the Biblical and Arab genealogies later led to the identification of
Joktan with Qahtan, probably due to his Biblical identification as the ancestor of
Hazarmaveth (
Hadramawt) and
Sheba.
The Ishmaelites are sometimes identified with the
Arab people, however another branch of Arabs (
Qahtan) exists that are not an offspring of Ishmael. Arabs existed long before the alleged time of Ishmael. In Hebrew the words
`arav and
`aravah literally mean "desert" or "steppe". In the Hebrew Bible the latter feminine form is used exclusively for the
Arabah, a region associated with the
Nabateans. The former masculine form is used in
Isaiah 21:13 and
Ezekiel 27:21 for the region of the settlement of
Kedar in the
Syrian Desert. Kedar is traditionally associated with one of Ishmael's sons, according to the biblical genealogies (Genesis 25:13; 1 Chronicles 1:29).
Ishmael is mostly mentioned in Genisis, the first book of the bible.
Offspring of Ishmael
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