Question

Despite God's promise that Abraham would have a son from his "own body," Sarah insisted they use Hagar their Egyptian slave as a surrogate mother. Together Abraham and Hagar had a child named _____________ became the ancestor of the Arab peoples.

Answer 1

Together Abraham and Hagar had a child named Ishmael.

Ishmael was Abraham’s first son according to the Jewish, Christian and Islam religions. He is considered to be the ancestor of Ishmaelites and a patriarch of many large nomadic Arabian tribes. Ishmael died at the age of 137. According to the Muslim traditions Ishmael and his mother, Hagar, are buried in Mecca.