This occurred at the well of Beer-lahai-roi, located in the desert region between Abraham’s settlement and Shur. Genesis 16:7-16 describes the naming of Ishmael, and God's promise to Hagar concerning Ishmael and his descendants. Abraham took Hagar as his wife, and conceived a child with her. She had the idea to offer her Egyptian handmaiden Hagar to her husband, so that they could have a child by her. Sarai was 75 years old and had yet to bear Abraham a child. She and her husband Abram (Abraham) sought a way to have children in order to fulfill the Abrahamic covenant that was established in Genesis 15. In Genesis 16, the birth of Ishmael was planned by the Patriarch Abraham's first wife, who at that time was known as Sarai. According to Muslim tradition, Ishmael the Patriarch and his mother Hagar are said to be buried next to the Kaaba in Mecca. The Book of Genesis and Islamic traditions consider Ishmael to be the ancestor of the Ishmaelites and patriarch of Qaydār. According to the Genesis account, he died at the age of 137 (Genesis 25:17). Ishmael was born to Abraham and Sarah's handmaiden Hagar (Hājar). Ishmael (Hebrew: יִשְׁמָעֵאל‬‬, Modern Yišma‘el, Tiberian Yišemāʻēl (ISO 259-3), Yišmaˁel, 'God hears' Greek: Ἰσμαήλ Ismaēl Classical/Qur'anic Arabic: إِسْمَٰعِيْل Modern Arabic: إِسْمَاعِيْل ʾIsmāʿīl Latin: Ismael) is a figure in the Tanakh and the Quran and was Abraham's first son according to Jews, Christians and Muslims. His descendants, the Ishmaelites, appear to have been a wandering race (16:12), living by plunder, having commercial relations and intermarrying with the heathen nations of Canaan (Gen. 4:23) and not the child “by promise” and was sent from home after mocking Isaac (Gen. He was the child “born after the flesh” (Gal. Son of Abraham and Hagar the Egyptian (Gen.

4 Spouse(s) Ishmael married Ra’la bint Mudad.

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