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The very first story — the creation of the first human being.
Drawn from the Stories of the Prophets of Ibn Kathir, this is the story of Adam, peace be upon him: how God announced him to the angels, taught him the names of all things, honoured him above the angels and settled him in the Garden — and how, tested by Iblis, he came down to the earth to begin the human story.
It carries the account of his two sons, the first loss and the first grief, the debate between Adam and Musa, and Adam's passing and his counsel to his son.
In this edition
• A retelling: Ibn Kathir's substance in plain, flowing prose, so the story can simply be read
• Every Qur'anic verse in the original Arabic beside a trusted English rendering
• Edited by hand; the chain of the story kept as Ibn Kathir set it
Who it is for
The adult reader who wants the prophets' stories as the scholars told them, not as a children's book. Parents reading aloud. Anyone returning to the Qur'an's stories with fresh eyes.
Book 1 of Stories of the Prophets, from Ibn Kathir's Qisas al-Anbiya. The series continues prophet by prophet.
Drawn from the Stories of the Prophets of Ibn Kathir, this is the story of Adam, peace be upon him: how God announced him to the angels, taught him the names of all things, honoured him above the angels and settled him in the Garden — and how, tested by Iblis, he came down to the earth to begin the human story.
It carries the account of his two sons, the first loss and the first grief, the debate between Adam and Musa, and Adam's passing and his counsel to his son.
In this edition
• A retelling: Ibn Kathir's substance in plain, flowing prose, so the story can simply be read
• Every Qur'anic verse in the original Arabic beside a trusted English rendering
• Edited by hand; the chain of the story kept as Ibn Kathir set it
Who it is for
The adult reader who wants the prophets' stories as the scholars told them, not as a children's book. Parents reading aloud. Anyone returning to the Qur'an's stories with fresh eyes.
Book 1 of Stories of the Prophets, from Ibn Kathir's Qisas al-Anbiya. The series continues prophet by prophet.
The very first story — the creation of the first human being.
Drawn from the Stories of the Prophets of Ibn Kathir, this is the story of Adam, peace be upon him: how God announced him to the angels, taught him the names of all things, honoured him above the angels and settled him in the Garden —...
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Ismail ibn Umar ibn Kathir (c. 701–774 AH / 1300–1373 CE) was a scholar of Damascus, a student of Ibn Taymiyya and al-Mizzi, and one of the most trusted historians and Qur'an commentators of the Muslim world. His Tafsir remains among the most read commentaries on the Qur'an.
His Stories of the Prophets, drawn from his great history al-Bidaya wa-n-Nihaya, gathers what the Qur'an, the Sunna and the early authorities relate of every prophet from Adam onward, weighed with the care of a hadith scholar.
His Stories of the Prophets, drawn from his great history al-Bidaya wa-n-Nihaya, gathers what the Qur'an, the Sunna and the early authorities relate of every prophet from Adam onward, weighed with the care of a hadith scholar.
Ismail ibn Umar ibn Kathir (c. 701–774 AH / 1300–1373 CE) was a scholar of Damascus, a student of Ibn Taymiyya and al-Mizzi, and one of the most trusted historians and Qur'an commentators of the Muslim world. His Tafsir remains among the most read commentaries on the Qur'an.
His Stories of the P...
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