Ishmael, boy of Abraham, is mentioned in two a Torah and the Qur'an. Within Islam, he is considered one of a prophets. Jews and Christians, through the Torah and Old Testament respectively, generally recognize Ishmael when a boy of Abraham, by Abraham's wife Sarah's female Egyptian servant or even slave, Hagar.

Ishmael in Islam
Arabic إسماعيل. In the Qur'an, Ishmael is known as the first-born son of Abraham from his second wife Hagar, and an appointed Prophet of God (also mentioned in the Bible). Islamic belief holds that Abraham married Hagar, a mother of Ishmael. Following, Ishmael was a foremost legitimate boy of Abraham. Islam asserts that he was the a single about sacrificed, non Isaac, (or Ishaq in the Qur'an). Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his boy for God is celebrated by Muslims every year when Eid ul-Adha.

Islamic tradition holds that Ishmael & Hagar were sent to the deserts of Arabia on the orders of God (Allah). A Bible claims that Sarah, fallowing a birth of Isaac, sent Hagar & Ishmael away. He & his mother settled within Mecca (or "Makkah") & were forgoing a stream. a frantic running off of his mother inside pursuit of a river led to a miraculous spring appearing from either either a ground (from God) called the Zamzam Well. Ishmael so helped his father, Abraham, build a Home of God, or even the Kaaba, in Mecca. Muhammad is considered to be the descendant of Ishmael. A oldest extant life of Muhammad, compiled by Mohammed Ibn Ishak, and edited by Abu Mohammed Abd el Malik Ibn Hisham, opens thus:

This book contains a life of a Apostle of God: Mohammed was the boy of Abd Allah, son of Abdu-l-Mottaleb, son of Hashim, son of Abd Menaf, son of Kussei, son of Kilab, son of Murra, son of Kaab, son of Luei, son of Ghalib, son of Fihr, son of Malik, son of Nadhr, son of Kinana, son of Khuzeima, son of Mudrika, son of Alya, son of Mudhar, son of Nizar, son of Maad, son of Adrian, son of Udd, son of Mukawwam, son of Nahor, son of Teira, son of Yarub, son of Yashyub, son of Nabit, son of Ishmael, son of Abraham, the Friend of God, boy of Tara, son of Nahor, son of Sarukh, son of Rau, son of Falih, son of Eiber, son of Shalih, son of Arphakhsad, son of Shem, son of Noah, son of Lamek, son of Metushalakh, son of Khanukh, - who, every bit is believed, was a prophet Idris, a number one prophet, & a number one world health organization wrote using the reed, - boy of Yared, son of Mahaleel, son of Kainanan, son of Yanish, son of Sheth, son of Adam, to whom may God exist as gracious!

Ishmael in Judaism and Christianity
In the Jewish Torah's (Christian Old Testament's) Book of Genesis (xvi, seventeen, twenty-one, twenty-five) & late texts, Ishmael or even '''Yishma'el (יִשְׁמָעֵאל "God will hear", Standard Hebrew Yišmaʿel, Tiberian Hebrew Yišmāʿêl''') is Abraham's eldest boy, natural by his servant Hagar. Inside Genesis Xvi Sarai (Abram's wife) gives Abram her maid-servant Hagar to bear him tikes, since she believed that God experienced saved her from either with children (16:2).

Hagar became pregnant and feared Sarai (16:4) who so mistreated Hagar within revenge. Hagar fled from either Sarai & ran into the desert, in which an angel observed her touching a spring. On text a prophecy of Ishmael is recorded inside Genesis 16:

& inside Genesis Seventeen:

A easily of Hagar around Genesis 16 was known as Beer lahai-roi ("Well of the Living One who Sees Me" or even when occasionally render it, "Well of the Vision of Life").

Sarah became pregnant (Genesis 21) & wore Isaac. Genesis says that on the day of Isaac's weaning, Ishmael was mocking so was caused retired. Abraham gave Hagar food & water supply, & sent her & Ishmael away. It wandered in the desert of Beersheba (well of the oath). Once their the lake was never again Hagar placed her boy under a bush. So she went the few feet away (the bowshot) away to hold off, because she may not bear to observe him die. When she waited, Hagar began to sob.

A Bible does not explicitly mention a toddler crying however does mention Hagar sobbing. All a same Genesis 21:17 says God heard the son crying. The easily miraculously appears, saving each mother & kid.

Based on datthe from either Genesis 21, Ishmael became the skilled archer & sleep in the desert; his mother found a married woman for him from Egypt.

Sons of Ishmael
Based on data from a Torah/Old Testament, Ishmael's twelve sons were known as Nebaioth, Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, Mishma, Dumah, Massa (Biblical person), Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah (See ). Based on data from either this account, it dwelt from Havilah when far when Shur, which is east of Egypt when a traveler heads toward Assyria.