An Overview of Prophets

Objective: to make
Comparison of Western sources of
knowledge and Quranic way of thought in term of philosophers and
prophets.

Islam teaches that God has sent prophets to humanity, in

different times and places, to communicate His message. Since
the beginning of time, God has sent His guidance through these
chosen people. They were human beings who taught the people
around them about faith in One Almighty God, and how to walk
on the path of righteousness. Some prophets also revealed God's
Word through books of revelation.
There are 25 prophets mentioned by name in the Qur'an,
although Muslims believe that there were round about 1, 24,000
prophets in different times and places.

Name: Quran
No. Islam/Christian Time Age Region Nation
1 Adam 950-
1000
year
s old
2 Idris/Enoch 83 Migrated to Egypt
year
s old
3 Nuh/Noah 3900bce- 950 Iraq
2900bce year
s old
15,000bce
-8000bce
4 Hud 2500bce- 150 South Arabia sent to Bani 'Ad
2200bce year ('Ad are
s old descendents of
Sam)

grave is in
 Hadramut in
Yemen
5 Salih 2000bce- 58 Wadi al Qura & al sent to Bani
1900bce year Hajr between Syria Thamud
s old and Hijaz (Thamud is
grandson of
Sam)
6 Lut/Lot 1861bce- 175 lived in Ur, (nephew of
1687bce year Mesopotamia Ibrahim)
s old
died in Palestine &
buried at Bani Naima
near Hebron
7 Ibrahim/Abraham 1761bce- 175 Mesopotamiamigrate
1686bce year d to
s old Palestinemigration to
1950bce Meccaburied in
175 Hebron
year
s old
8 Isma'il/Ishmael Mecca
9 Ishaq/Isaac 1761bce- 178- died in Hebron
1581bce 180
year
s old

180
year
s old
10 Ya'qub/Jacob 1800bce- 147 born in Canaan
1653bce year (Palestine) and
s old settled in Egypt
1900bce
140 buried in Hebron
year
s old

11 Yusuf/Joseph 1610bce- 110 was a slave in Egypt

1500bce year
s old
1600bce
12 Shuaib 1600bce- Northern sent to the
1500bce? Arabiasettled in descendents of
Hadramautburied in Midian
Shaban near Valley
 of Ibn Ali
13 Musa/Moses 1436bce- 120 born in Egypt, flee to
1316bce year Midian, back to
s old Egypt, emigrated to
1250bce Palestine
14 Harun 1439bce- 122 Jerusalem rules Jerusalem
1317bce year after rule of
s old Goliath
15 Dawud/David 1043bce- 70 Buried in Jerusalem
973bce year
s old
1043bce-
973bce 70
year
s old
16 Sulayman/Solom 985bce- 53 Born in Jerusalem Rules
on 932bce year Jerusalem
s old
985bce-
932bce 89
year
s old
17 Ilyas approx. Israel lived in the time
700bce of King Ahab
18 Al Yasa/Elisha preached in Yariha was son of
Ukhtub
19 Ayyub (Job) 96 NE Palestine
year
s old
20 Dhul-Kifl (Ezekiel) about 75 lived in Jerusalem,
587bce year emigrated to
s old Babylon
21 Yunus (Jonah) Lived/died in Son of Mitta
Ninevah on Tigris in
Assyria
22 Zakariya 100bce- 120 Palestine patron of
20bce year Maryam Um
s old 'Isa
23 Yahya/John the 0bce Palestine time of Roman
Baptist Herod Antipas
24 'Isa/Jesus 33bce-1ce 33 Palestine
year
s old
25 Muhammad 571ce- 63 Saudi Arabia
636ce year
s old
 Selected Verses about Prophet
Students are supposed to consult the following verses from PDF copies of tafseer.

AdamOrigin to knowledge Al-Baqra 30 to 39

Al-Aaraf 11 to 27
Az-Zumar 6
Nooh Ship of Nooh Al-Hood 32-48
An-Nooh 21-28
Ibrahim New City Al-Baqrah 125 to 127
Dialogue & Al-Baqrah 258 to 260
Epistemology Al-Imran 67 to 68
Al-Inam 76 to 79
Epistemology As Safat 83 to 113
Loot Ethics in Society Al-Shoaara 163 to 168
Al-Araf 80 to 84
Al-Hood 75 to 80
Moosa Competition with Al-Anbia 48 to 50
magician Al-Qisas 38
Al-Aaraf 114 to 141
Daood Languages As-Saba 10 to 13
Metallurgy Al-Ambia 78 to 79
An-Namal 15 to 16
Suleman Kingdom and Civil Eng. As-Saba 12 to 14
Eesa Preferences upon Al-Imran 45
Ancient Greeks An-Nisa 171
Al-Maeda 110
Al-Saf 6
Syyedona Universal Vision Al-Ambia 107
Muhammad Al-Aaraf 157
(SAWW)
Prophets An overview of An-Nisa 163-165
Prophets Al- Anam 84-89
An-Nahl 36