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Circumstances forced Ibrahim to leave Hagar and Ismail in what is now Mecca . The children of Ismail are known as Banu Ismail or Ishmailities. Muslims consider Arabs to be descendants of Ishmael. In Jewish and Christian traditions, the identification of the Ishmaelites, described in the Bible as a people of the Arabian wilderness, with Arabs began at least by the time of Josephus , and became standard in the early days of Islam (in which the term " Hagarenes ", a pun on the Arabic '' Muhajir '' and the name of Hagar, was commonly used.) Efforts to reconcile the Biblical and Arab genealogies later led to the identification of Joktan with Qahtan, probably due to his Biblical identification as the ancestor of Hazarmaveth ( Hadramawt ) and Sheba . The Ishmaelites are sometimes identified with the in the Syrian Desert . Kedar is traditionally associated with one of Ishmael's sons, according to the biblical genealogies (Genesis 25:13; 1 Chronicles 1:29). OFFSPRING OF ISHMAEL |
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