The Prophets' Names

The Prophets' Names
There are 25 prophets mentioned by name in the Quran, although Muslims believe that there
were much more in different times and places. Among the prophets that Muslims honor are:
1. Adam or Aadam, was the first human being, the father of the human race and the first
Muslim. As in the Bible, Adam and his wife Eve (Hawa) were cast out of the Garden of Eden
for eating the fruit of a certain tree.
2. Idris (Enoch) was the third prophet after Adam and his son Seth and identified as the
Bible's Enoch. He was devoted to the study of the ancient books of his ancestors.
3. Nuh (Noah), was a man who lived among unbelievers and was called on to share the
message of the existence of a single god, Allah. After many fruitless years of preaching,
Allah warned Nuh of coming destruction, and Nuh built an ark to save pairs of animals.
4. Hud was sent to preach to the Arabic descendants of Nuh called 'Ad, desert traders who
had yet to embrace monotheism. They were destroyed by a sandstorm for ignoring Hud's
warnings.
5. Saleh, about 200 years after Hud, was sent to the Thamud, who were descendants of the
'Ad. The Thamud demanded that Saleh perform a miracle to prove his connection to Allah:
To produce a camel out of rocks. After he had done so, a group of unbelievers plotted to have
his camel killed, and they were destroyed by an earthquake or volcano.
6. Ibrahim (Abraham) is the same man as Abraham in the Bible, and widely honored and
revered as a teacher and father and grandfather to other prophets. Muhammad was one of his
descendants.
7. Isma'il (Ishmael) is Ibrahim's son, born to Hagar and an ancestor of Muhammad's. He
and his mother were brought to Mecca by Ibrahim.
8. Ishaq (Isaac) is also Abraham's son in the Bible and the Quran, and both he and his
brother Ismail continued to preach after Ibrahim's death.
9. Lut (Lot) was of Ibrahim's family who was sent to Canaan as the prophet to the doomed
cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.
10. Ya'qub (Jacob), also of the family of Ibrahim, was the father of the 12 Tribes of Israel
11. Yousef (Joseph), was Ya'qub's eleventh and most beloved son, whose brothers threw
him in a well where he was rescued by a passing caravan.
12. Shu'aib, sometimes associated with the Biblical Jethro, was a prophet sent to the
Midianite community who worshipped a sacred tree. When they would not listen to Shuaib,
Allah destroyed the community.
13. Ayyub (Job), like his parallel in the Bible, suffered long and was sorely tested by Allah
but remained true to his faith.
14. Musa (Moses), brought up in the royal courts of Egypt and sent by Allah to preach
monotheism to the Egyptians, was given the revelation of the Torah (called Tawrat in
Arabic).
15. Harun (Aaron) was Musa's brother, who stayed with their kinsmen in the Land of
Goshen, and was the first high priest to the Israelites.
16. Dhu'l-kifl (Ezekiel), or Zul-Kifl, was a prophet who lived in Iraq; sometimes associated
with Joshua, Obadiah, or Isaiah rather than Ezekiel.
17. Dawud (David), king of Israel, received the divine revelation of the Psalms.
18. Sulaiman (Solomon), son of Dawud, had the ability to talk to animals and rule djin; he
was the third king of the Jewish people and considered the greatest of world rulers.
19. Ilias (Elias or Elijah), also spelled Ilyas, lived in the northern kingdom of Israel and
defended Allah as the true religion against the worshippers of Baal.
20. Al-Yasa (Elisha) is typically identified with Elisha, although the stories in the Bible are
not repeated in the Quran.
21. Yunus (Jonah), was swallowed by a big fish and repented and glorified Allah.
22. Zakariyya (Zechariah) was the father of John the Baptist, the guardian of Isa's mother
Mary and a righteous priest who lost his life for his faith.
23. Yahya (John the Baptist) was a witness to the word of Allah, who would herald the
arrival of Isa.
24. 'Isa (Jesus) is considered a messenger of truth in the Quran who preached the straight
path.
Muhammad, the father of the Islamic empire, was called to be a prophet at the age of 40, in

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