Wednesday 17 July 2013

List of people mentioned by name in the Quran

                        List of people mentioned by name in the Quran

Prophets


•    Al-Yasa' (6:86 and 38:48)
•    Ayub (4:163, 6:84, 21:83, 38:41)
•    Dawud (16 times)
•    Dhul-Kifl (21:85, 38:48)
•    Hud (25 times)
•    Harun (20 times)
•    Ibrahim (69 times)
•    Ismail (12 times)
•    Ilyas (6:85, 37:123 and maybe 37:130)
•    Ishaq (17 times)
•    Isa (25 times) 'Al-Masih'(11 times) and Ibn Maryam(23 times).
•    Idris (19:56, 21:85)
•    Lut (27 times)
•    Musa (136 times) Moses is the name of the human person mentioned most often in the Qur'an.
•    Muhammad (5 times: 3:144, 33:40, 47:2, 48:29 and Ahmed in 61:6)
•    Nuh (43 times)
•    Saleh (9 times)
•    Shu'ayb (10 times)
•    Sulayman (17 times)
•    Uzayr (9:30)
•    Yahya (5 times)
•    Ya'qub (16 times) Isra'il is also mentioned about 43 times.
•    Yusuf (27 times)
•    Yunus (4:163, 6:86, 10:98, 37:139)
•    Zakariyya (7 times)


Non prophets

 
•    Azar (6:74)
•    Al-Samiri (20:85, 20:87, 20:95)
•    Abu Lahab (111:1)
•    Dhul-Qarnayn (18:83, 18:86, 18:94)
•    Fir'aun (74 times)
•    Haman (2:68, 28:8, 28:38, 29:39, 40:24, 40:36)
•    Imran (3:33, 3:35, 66:12)
•    Luqman (31:13)
•    Maryam (34 times) as the only woman mentioned in the Qur'an by her personal name.
•    Qarun (28:76, 28:79, 29:39, 40:24)
•    Talut (2:247, 2:249)
•    Zayd (33:37)


Angels mentioned by name

 
•    Jibril (2:97, 2:98)
•    Mikael (2:98)
•    Maalik (43:77)
•    Harut (2:102)
•    Marut (2:102)
•    Angel of Death (32:11)
•    Iblis (11 times) Also 'Shaytan' or the Satan.[1]


False gods by name

 
•    Al-Lat (53:19)
•    Al-‘Uzzá (53:19)
•    Manat(53:20)
•    Wadd (71:23)
•    Suwa' (71:23)
•    Yaghuth (71:23)
•    Ya'uq (71:23)
•    Nasr (71:23)
•    Ba'l (37:125)

Muhammad Sami Naeem

 

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