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The Prophets in the Qur'ān

Allāh sent His Messengers and Prophets to all people, ending with Prophet Muḥammad who was the last Prophet of Allāh. Only some of them have been mentioned in the Qur’ān. The Arabic or Islāmic names of these prophets have been used in this translation with the biblical name in parentheses at the first occurrence of the name in the Qur’ān. Listed below are the Prophets mentioned in the Qur’ān by their names. After each name, is the āyah number where it occurred first in the Qur’ān. At every such place of first occurrence of the name, a short note about each Prophet is found in the footnote to the mentioned āyah.

1

Ādam (Adam) 2:31

2

Idrīs (Enoch) 19:56

3

Nūḥ (Noah) 3:33

4

Hūd (Eber) 7:65

5

Ṣāliḥ (non-biblical Prophet) 7:73

6

Ibrāhīm (Abraham) 2:124

7

Lūṭ (Lot) 6:86

8

Ismāʿīl (Ishmael) 2:125

9

Isḥāq (Isaac) 2:133

10

Ya‘qūb (Jacob) 2:132

11

Yūsuf (Joseph) 6:84

12

Ayyūb (Job) 4:163

13

Dhu’l-Kifl (Ezekiel) 21:85

14

Shu‘ayb (Jethro) 7:85

15

Mūsā (Moses) 2:51

16

Hārūn (Aaron) 2:248

17

Dā’ūd (David) 2:251

18

Sulaymān (Solomon) 2:102

19

Yūnus (Jonah) 4:163

20

Ilyās (Elijah) 6:85

21

Ilyāsīn (another name of Prophet Ilyās?) 37:130

22

Alyasaʿ (Elisha) 6:86

23

Zakarīyā (Zechariah) 3:37

24

Yaḥyā (John) 3:39

25

‘Īsā (Jesus) 2:87

26

Muḥammad 3:144, 47:2 – see Appendix A.

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First published in August 2023, this translation is available in two Hard bound editions. One comes with Parallel Arabic-English Texts and the other is the English only version. In December 2025 we had published the third edition of both versions, alhamdulillah.

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