{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/pro/jj00.htm","path":"isl/pro/jj00.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pro/jj00.htm","text":"Sacred Texts\u00a0\nIslam\u00a0\nIndex\u00a0\nPrevious\u00a0\nNext\u00a0\nJacob and Joseph\n(PUT)\nJacob\nis the son of Isaac ben Abraham, the friend of God, and his mother is Rebecca\n(Rebekah) the daughter of Bethuel, and his mother gave birth to him with\na brother of his that is Esau [Arabic: Al-`Ays] and his name in Torah is\n`Eesu [`Esav], so Esau and Jacob are twins and born together, with Esau\ncoming first then Jacob, and their mother is Rebecca the daughter of Bethuel\nben Terah ben Nahor ben Serug, and the marriage of Rebecca and Isaac was\nmentioned before in the doscussion of the conditions of Isaac. Some historians\nsaid that then happened some conflict and hate between the two and Esau\nhated Jacob, and they say that Esau used to like hunting and had a strong\nsoul, and his brother Jacob was a gentle man with manners and patience\nwith faith so his mother Rebecca loved him so much and been afraid that\nEsau would hurt him with his wrath, and always been afraid that he would\nbe killed by him so she suggested for him to go to his uncle Laban ben\nBethuel ben Terah ben Nahor, so he went to Iraq to Padan-Aram and stayed\nwith his uncle and under his service, then his uncle gave him his daughter\nLeah [Arabic: Liyy\u00e2, Hebrew: Le'ah] for marriage and he had six children\nfrom her: Rawbeen, Sham`un, L\u00e2wi, Yahu\u00f0\u00e2,\nRiy\u00e2lun and Yashjob [in Torah they are actually seven: Reuben, Simeon,\nLevi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, and Dinah, the first four names are exact\ntranslation of the names mentioned in Arabic, but the others are not so\nclose in spelling], and then Leah died so he got married to her sister\nRaheel (Rachel) and she gave birth to Joseph and Benjamin, and he got also\nfour children from two other maids, one of them is called Zilfah (Zilpah)\nand the other called Bilhah, and as mentioned in Torah that Bilhah is a\nhandmaid of Rachel and gave her to Jacob so he got two children from her,\nDan and Naphtali, and Zilpah is the handmaid of Leah and also gave her\nto Jacob and so he got two children from her, Gad and Asher, and so the\nchildren of Jacob are twelve males as mentioned in the stories of Abdul-Wah\u00e2b\nAl-Najj\u00e2r, although there are some differences in the names of the\nchildren of Jacob between Torah and as mentioned by Abdul-Wah\u00e2b Al-Najj\u00e2r,\nbut their number is agreeable by all that they are twelve males, and it\nmight be apparent that all the children were born in Padan-Aram in Iraq\nwhile he (Jacob) was with his uncle Laban taking care of his cattles, then\nhe got back to the land of Canaan in the lands of Shem with lot of money\nand fortune, and when he got back he gave his brother some while he was\nafraid that he would kill him but his brother Esau met him with a nice\nface and gentleness. They say that the children born in Iraq were only\neleven except of Benjamin that was born in the land of Canaan. God did\nsay: The same did Abraham enjoin upon his sons, and also Jacob,\n(saying): O my sons! Lo! Allah hath chosen for you the (true) religion;\ntherefore die not save as men who have surrendered, Or were ye present\nwhen death came to Jacob (unto Him)(Al-Baqarah:132-133), and as attributed\nto Al-B\u00e2qir (PUH): and Jacob was give the prophecy in the land of\nCanaan then went to Egypt and died there and then his body was carried\nback to the land of Canaan and buried there.\nIn Muruj Al-\u00d0ahab for Al-Mas`udi:\nIsaac then ordered his son Jacob to go to the lands of Shem and told him\nthat he got the prophecy along with his twelve children and they are: L\u00e2wi,\nYahu\u00f0a, Yess\u00e2khir, Bolon, Yousef, Biny\u00e2min, D\u00e2n,\nNaft\u00e2li, K\u00e2n, Esh\u00e2r, Sham`un and Rubeel [this list seems\ncloser to the names in Torah: Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph, Benjamin,\nDan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Simeon, Reuben], and prophecy with power had\nbeen made into four of them: Levi, Judah, Joseph and Benjamin. Then he\nsaid: then Jacob been afraid a lot of his brother Esau and God made him\nsafe from him, and Jacob had five thousand and five hundred sheeps, and\nJacob gave the tenth of that for his brother Esau to prevent his evil after\nthat God made him safe away from him, so God punished him in his children\nfor not holding to his oath and God inspired to him: did not you believe\nin My promise to you? Then I will make the children of Esau rule your children\nfor five hundred and fifty years, and that was the time period by which\nRomans took hold of Jerusalem and destroyed the temples and made the Israelites\nas slaves until the time of Omar ben Al-Khatt\u00e2b [second caliphate\nfor Sunnites] when he invaded Jerusalem.\nNext: About Calling Jacob as Israel","title":"The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: Jacob and Joseph: Jacob and Joseph (PUT)","type":"page"}