Did Abraham sacrifice Ismail or Isaac?

9-2-2000 | IslamWeb

Question:

Did Abraham sacrifice Ismail or Isaac? From what I have read in the Quran, it does not clearly state which son was sacrificed. Can you help?

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Answer:

Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds; and blessings and peace be upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon all his Family and Companions. The sacrificed son was Ismael. The evidence for that is first, that Allah, the Almighty promised Abraham (PPBUH) and his wife that he could give them a son whose name was Isaac and that, that son would have a son whose name was Yacoub. So, this implies that Isaac was to grow up and have a child Yacoub. And Allah does not break His promise. The other evidence is that this story happened in Makkah and it is known that Isaac (PPBUH) and his mother Sarah never came to Makkah. But Abraham (PPBUH) and his wife Hajar (Ismael's mother ) were exiled to Makkah because of Sarah's jelousy from Hajar.