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Abraham

The patriarch at the root of all three Abrahamic faiths. Called by God out of Ur, promised a nation through his offspring, tested with the binding of his son. In the Qur'an he is Khalil Allah — 'friend of God' — and rebuilds the Kaaba with his son Ishmael.

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