Shared story · 5 min
Abraham's sacrifice
A father, a son, a mountain, and a ram.
Shared Stories · Abraham's sacrifice
God tests Abraham (peace be upon him); he is ready to give up his son; God stops him and a ram takes the son's place. Jews, Christians and Muslims all remember it, and Muslims mark it every year at Eid al-Adha.
In the Torah and the rabbis
Genesis 22, the Akedah (“the binding”): “Take now thy son, thine only son, whom thou lovest, even Isaac” (22:2, JPS 1917). It is read on Rosh Hashanah. Jewish teaching hears in it God's rejection of child sacrifice.
In the Gospels and Christian tradition
Hebrews 11:17–19 and James 2:21 praise Abraham's faith; Christians have long read the story as a foreshadowing of the Cross.
Same and different
Genesis names Isaac. The Qur'an does not name the son; most Muslims today understand Ishmael, and early Muslim scholars held both views. We don't pick a winner. In every version, God stops the knife.
We never picture any prophet or Mary. Each panel is checked by a reader from that tradition before this page goes public.
