How to Muslim
You already know some of these names. Noah and the flood. Abraham asked to give up his son. Moses and Pharaoh. Joseph, his brothers, and the well. Want to hear these recited, not just read? See our Quran Reciters list. For Isa specifically, see Jesus in Islam.
The Quran names twenty-five of them, and Muslims believe there were far more than that, because every nation was sent someone. What the Quran adds to the stories you may half-know already is that all of them were carrying the same message.
“We sent a messenger to every community, saying, ‘Worship God, and shun false gods.’”
Quran 16:36Most of the Quran’s storytelling lives here. Open it anywhere and you will hit a passage about a staff turning into a snake, or a man praying from inside a fish, and the Quran will drop you into the middle of the scene without introduction, because its first audience already knew the story.
They are not told for the plot. Every one of them lands on the same point: a person was asked to trust Allah at the moment it made least sense to, and did it anyway. Reading them is how the Quran stops being abstract.
In the order Muslims usually learn them, from the first human to the last prophet.
Not among the twenty-five named in the Quran, but part of the tradition and worth knowing about.
Ibn Kathir’s Stories of the Prophets is the standard work, and it is free. It goes far deeper than anything on this page and pulls the Quranic account together with the hadith on each prophet.
New to all of this? Start from the beginning.
Where to take this further.
Islamic media and short-form video for a global audience.
onepathnetwork.com · FreeA curated hub of Sunni videos, books, and dawah resources.
islamic-library.org · Free