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Gabriel appears before him and commands him to "Read!". He responded, "I cannot read!". (This happens 2 more times). Then the angel Gabriel embraced him tightly and then revealed to him the first lines of chapter 96 of the Qur'an, "Read: In the name of your Lord Who created, (1) Created man from a clot. (2) Read: And Allah is the Most Generous ...
In the Quran, the archangel Gabriel appears named in and , as well as in , where he is mentioned along with the archangel Michael. [8] Tafsir (Exegetical Quranic literature) narrates that Muhammad saw the archangel Gabriel in his full angelic splendor only twice, the first time being when he received his first revelation. [46]
In Sunni Islam, the Hadith of Gabriel (also known as, Ḥadīth Jibrīl) is a ninth-century hadith of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (the last prophet of Islam) which expresses the religion of Islam in a concise manner. [1] It is believed to contain a summary of the core of the religion of Islam, which are:
1-5 Angel Gabriel commanding towards Muhammad to recite the first verses of the Qur'an. 6-14 Rebuke of Abu Jahl for hindering the Muslim cause. 15 ۩ 19 Abu Jahl threatened with the torments of Hell as punishment.
At age 40, Angel Jebreel (Gabriel) was said to appear to Muhammad on the mountain and call him "the Prophet of Allah" Begins in secret to gather followers in Mecca c. 613 43 Begins spreading message of Islam publicly to all Meccans c. 614 43–44 Heavy persecution of Muslims begins c. 615 44–45 Emigration of a group of Muslims to Ethiopia
The term Rūḥ al-Qudus is also an epithet referring to the Archangel Gabriel, [20] who is related as the Angel of revelation and was assigned by God to reveal the Qurʼan to the Islamic prophet Muhammad and who delivered the Annunciation to Mary. [21] In the two suras in which the Qur'an refers to the angel Gabriel, it does so by name. [22]
Muhammad, born in 570, [2] at the age of 40 after reportedly being visited by the angel Gabriel in the cave of Hira, began spreading a new religion, Islam, in Mecca. [3] Initially, he only preached in private. Later, he also began doing it in public, challenging the polytheistic beliefs of the Meccans. This increased tensions in the city.
A 16th-century Siyer-i Nebi image of angel Gabriel visiting Muhammad. When Muhammad was 40 years old, [93] he began to receive his first revelations in 610 CE. The first revealed verses were the first five verses of Surah al-Alaq that the archangel Gabriel (Jabrāʾīl) brought from God to Muhammad in the Cave of Hira in Mount Hira. [94] [95] [96]