Stories of the Prophets
The prophets before him ﷺ, from Adam to Isa.
Twenty-nine days walking the one chain of guidance that runs from the first human being to Isa, peace be upon them all, and on to the final Prophet ﷺ. Each day retells an episode and points back to the Qur'an that tells it, verified word for word. Retold faithfully from Mufti Ismail Menk's Stories of the Prophets. Free to read, as sadaqah jariyah.
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Why Allah fills the Qur'an with the prophets before Him ﷺ, and how to read their lives
The first human beings
Adam, the father of us all, his sons, and the first souls raised to Allah
The creation of Adam
The first human being, shaped by Allah's own hand
Paradise, before the descent to earth
Day 3 · At the very start of usAdam on earth, part 1
He forgot, he slipped, and then he turned back
Day 4 · The first generation born of AdamAdam on earth, part 2
The first family, the first murder, and the first soul to taste death
The early earth
Day 5 · In the lifetime of Adam, and just afterShith, the son who kept the flame
The trust passed on, from a father's hand to a son's
The mountains, above the valley
Day 6 · The seventh generation from AdamIdris, raised to a high place
Two verses, and a meeting in the fourth heaven
The early warners
Nuh, Hud, and Salih, sent to nations that mistook their strength for safety
Nuh and the flood
Nine hundred and fifty years of calling, and a handful who listened
Day 8 · The generations after Nuh, peace be upon himHud and the people of Ad
The mightiest nation Allah ever made, and the wind that left no trace of them
Al-Ahqaf, the sand dunes of southern Arabia
Day 9 · After Ad, before Ibrahim, peace be upon themSalih and the she-camel
A sign they asked for out of the rock, and the night they hamstrung it
Al-Hijr, in the rocky north of Arabia
The friend of the Most Merciful
Ibrahim and Ismail, the broken idols, the fire that cooled, and the Ka'bah raised
Ibrahim, the friend of Allah, part 1
A boy who reasoned his way to the One, and stood alone
Babylon, in the land of Iraq
Day 11 · After the fire, the long migration beginsIbrahim, the friend of Allah, part 2
The sound heart that out-argued a king and feared no one but his Lord
From Babylon, through Haran and Sham, to Egypt
Day 12 · Long before there was a city thereIbrahim and Ismail, part 3
A wife, a baby, and a valley with nothing in it
The barren valley of Makkah
Day 13 · Generations before the Prophet ﷺIbrahim and Ismail, part 4
The knife, the ransom, and the house they raised together
Makkah
Day 14 · In the days of Ibrahim, before Ishaq was bornLut and the overturned towns
One man against a people who called the forbidden normal
Sodom, near the Dead Sea
Tested, then chosen
Yaqub's patience, Yusuf's well and throne, and the trials of Ayyub and Yunus
Yaqub and Yusuf, part 1
A dream, a brother's envy, and a father's beautiful patience
Canaan
Day 16 · The boy from the well, now grownYusuf, part 2
He chose the prison over the sin, and Allah was planning all along
Egypt, the house of al-Aziz
Day 17 · Decades after the wellYusuf, part 3
No blame upon you today: the brother who chose forgiveness over revenge
Egypt
Day 18 · Two prophets, two trials, one LordAyyub and Yunus
The patience that would not break, and the cry in three darknesses
From the land of Ayyub to a coast near Iraq
Musa and the Children of Israel
The staff, the sea, the Pharaoh, the law, and Shu'ayb's honest scales
Musa and Harun, part 1
Floated down the very river that was meant to kill him
Egypt, and the wells of Madyan
Day 20 · After ten years in MadyanMusa and Harun, part 2
A fire on a dark mountain, and the voice of the One who made him
Mount Tur, on the road back to Egypt
Day 21 · The morning at the seaMusa and Harun, part 3
The magicians who believed in an instant, and the king who believed too late
Egypt
Day 22 · After Pharaoh drownedMusa and the Children of Israel, part 1
Saved on Monday, asking for an idol by Tuesday
The far shore of the sea, and the mountain
Day 23 · The years of wanderingMusa and the Children of Israel, part 2
A nation handed everything, still learning to obey
After the sea, in the wilderness
Day 24 · Around the time of Musa, across the seaShu'ayb and the honest scale
The prophet who put faith inside the marketplace
Madyan
The kings who bowed
Dawud and Sulayman, given a kingdom and kept humble, and the line of Zakariyya
Between Musa and Dawud
Joshua, a plague, a hundred years asleep, and a boy with a sling
From the wilderness to the holy land
Day 26 · After the sling that felled GoliathDawud, the grateful
Given a kingdom, and he stayed on his knees
The land of Bani Israil
Day 27 · After his father Dawud, peace be upon himSulayman and the kingdom, part 1
A king who asked only to be grateful
Jerusalem to Sheba
Day 28 · From Sulayman's last breath to the prophets who followedSulayman, part 2, and the line of Zakariyya
A king who fell leaning on his staff, and an old man who whispered for a son
Jerusalem, and the land of Bani Israil
The word of Allah
Isa, his mother Maryam, and the promise of the messenger to come after him ﷺ