abraham sacrificed his son in psalms.
abraham sacrificed his son in psalms.
where in the bible does abraham sacrifice his son?
psalms
the binding of isaac appears in the book of genesis (22); the story appears in the quran though islamic tradition holds that ismael was the one to be sacrificed. in both the quranic and biblical stories, god tests abraham by asking him to present his son as a sacrifice on moriah. abraham agrees to this command without arguing. the story ends with an angel stopping abraham at the last minute and providing a ram, caught in some nearby bushes, to be sacrificed instead. many bible scholars have suggested this story's origin was a remembrance of an era when human sacrifice was abolished in favour of animal sacrifice.
human sacrifice
in the mainstream narrative, it is assumed that abraham's dream of sacrificing his son was a command by god. the verse in reference (i.e. 37:104-105) is in surah as-saffat and the quoted ayahs are translated by known islamic scholar abul a'la maududi as "we cried out o' ibraheem you have indeed fulfilled your dream. thus do we award the good do-ers." it is assumed that abraham dreamt that god ordered him to sacrifice his son ishmael, he agreed to follow god's command and perform the sacrifice, however, god intervened and informed him that his sacrifice had been accepted. unlike the bible, there is no mention in the qur'an of an animal (ram) replacing the boy, rather he is replaced with a 'great sacrifice' ("zibhin azeem"). since the sacrifice of a ram cannot be greater than that of abraham's son (and a prophet in islam at that), this replacement seems to point to either the religious institutionalization of sacrifice itself, or to the future self-sacrifices of the islamic prophet muhammad and his companions (who were destined to emerge from the progeny of ishmael) in the cause of their faith. from that day onwards, every eid al-adha once a year muslims around the world slaughter an animal to commemorate abraham's sacrifice and to remind themselves of self-abnegation in the way of allah. this is called qurbani ("sacrifice").
abraham in islam