# Did all prophets after Abraham come from his family?

*Were prophets only from Abraham's line? The Quran does not say so*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/32/
- Date: 2021-02-16 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:46:51–1:48:43)
- Status: general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--PntsaR8ck&t=6411s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/

**Topics:** Prophethood and miracles

**Question as asked:** The Quran does refer to them as chosen, implying there's something special about that particular line. I thought after Abraham prophets would be only from his line.

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** No: the Quran nowhere limits prophets to Abraham's line, he says; the Israelites' favour is relative, and other peoples were favoured differently.

**Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran nowhere says that prophets came only from Abraham's line.

**Evidence, his words at 1:46:51:** “you see it doesn't say in the quran that prophets were only from abraham's line doesn't say that anyway in the quran” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--PntsaR8ck&t=6411s)

## Longer summary

A questioner says the Quran calls the Israelites chosen and thought that after Abraham prophets would come only from his line. Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran nowhere says prophets came only from Abraham's line: Allah says he favoured Bani Isra'il, but they may have been favoured in some things and others in other things. Addressed with Arabia in mind, he says, they were favoured with Moses and many prophets and with withstanding the vicissitudes of fate, which does not mean no one else was favoured; these things are relative. He then agrees with a chat comment that whole countries would not have thrown away their cultures for a foreign religion.

## Sources and names cited

- Ibrahim (Abraham)
- Bani Isra'il (the Israelites)
- Musa (Moses)

## Transcript (machine tier, 1:46:51–1:48:43)

[1:46:50] the quran does refer to them as chosen implying there's something special about that um particular i thought after abraham prophets would be only from his line you see it doesn't say in the quran that prophets were only from abraham's line doesn't say that anyway in the quran that would not have been the case but it says that allah says look we have favored bani israel but yes they may have been favored in certain things and other people may have been favored in other certain things so

[1:47:27] when the quran is addressing bani israel with arabia in mind yes they may have been favored with all these prophets and moses and the whole thing and you know being in a nation that have really withstood uh us such vicissitudes of life and fate but does that mean no other people were favored no it doesn't mean that other people may have been favored differently so these things are relative relative rami you're

[1:48:06] doing it you're doing it rami all right when you get a chance i've already answered that at sam teller it also doesn't make sense that the whole countries would throw away their cultures and tradition for this foreign religion exactly they wouldn't ex and that absolutely correct rami you're doing it you're doing it salaam mufti is there a reason outside of hadith why the figure at the lottery was determined to be gabriel and not a theophany rather rather the figure at the lottery

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment --PntsaR8ck/s/32. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/--pntsar8ck/s/32/

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