| According to Genesis 25:17, Ishmael lived to the age of 137 | Islamic tradition tends to ascribe a larger role to Ishmael than does the Bible |
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| The fact that Ishmael's wife and mother are both said to have been Egyptian suggests close ties between the Ishmaelites and Egypt | Retrieved on 28 April 2014 |
| Joris, Pierre; Tengour, Habib 2012 | New York: Dorling Kindersley Publishing |
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| John Joseph Saunders, A history of medieval Islam, Routledge, 1965, page 13• , translated by Henrietta Szold and Paul Radin Philadelphia, 2003 |
In the Genesis account, God blessed Ishmael, promising that he would be the founder of a great nation and a "wild ass of a man" always at odds with others Gn.
| According to some rabbinic traditions, his two wives were Aisha and Fatima, whose names are the same as those of Muhammad's wife and daughter Both Judaism and Islam see him as the ancestor of Arab peoples | He is credited with twelve sons, described as "princes according to their tribes" Gn |
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| Sarna's Understanding Genesis New York, 1966 | Postbiblical traditions, with reference to Christian and Islamic views, are collected in Louis Ginzberg's exhaustive Legends of the Jews, 2d ed |
He is considered a prophet and, according to certain theologians, the offspring whom Abraham was commanded to sacrifice although surah Judaism has generally regarded him as wicked, although repentance is also ascribed to him.
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