Some Muslims consider the surviving versions as transmitting a suppressed apostolic original.

The overwhelming majority of Muslims consider hadith to be essential supplements to and clarifications of the Quran, Islam's holy book, as well as in clarifying issues pertaining to Islamic jurisprudence.

A Muslim, also spelled Moslem, is an adherent of Islam, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the Qur ' an — which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God as revealed to prophet Muhammad — and, with lesser authority than the Qur ' an, the teachings and practices of Muhammad as recorded in traditional accounts, called hadith.

Muslims maintain that previous messages and revelations have been partially changed or corrupted over time, but consider the Qur ' an to be both unaltered and the final revelation from God — Final Testament.

For instance, Orthodox Judaism holds that the Torah was received from God on biblical Mount Sinai, and Muslims consider the Qur ' an to have been revealed word by word and letter by letter.

However, according to Idries Shah, the Sufi philosophy is universal in nature, its roots predating the rise of Islam and the other modern-day religions, save for perhaps Buddhism and Jainism ; likewise, some Muslims consider Sufism outside the sphere of Islam.

Muslims call the Torah the Tawrat and consider it the word of God given to Moses.

* Part three goes on to say that the Catholic Church regards the Muslims with esteem, and then continues by describing some of the things Islam has in common with Christianity and Catholicism: worship of One God, the Creator of Heaven and Earth, Merciful and Omnipotent, Who has spoken to men ; the Muslims ' respect for Abraham and Mary, and the great respect they have for Jesus, whom they consider to be a Prophet and not God.

Micro-lending institutions founded by Muslims, notably Grameen Bank, use conventional lending practices and are popular in some Muslim nations, especially Bangladesh, but some do not consider them true Islamic banking.

Muslims consider that visions experienced by prophets are revelations from God, and as such it was a divine order to Abraham.

Muslims consider the original Arabic text to be the final revelation, revealed to Muhammad from AD 610 to his death in 632.

The ulama in most nations consider themselves to represent the ijma " consensus " of the Ummah " community of Muslims " ( or to represent at least the scholarly or learned consensus ).

Muslims consider Christians as the People of the Book.

Muslims consider this division of God's Oneness to be a grave sin ( Shirk ).

The Nation of Islam is a black supremacist movement which acknowledges its 20th-century founder, Wallace Fard Muhammad, as an incarnation of Allah, a view most Muslims consider shirk ( polytheism ).

To understand this, consider the variety of attitudes Muslims with a fervent belief in Islam as a universal solution to political problems, took to the events of the 1980s and the 1990s:

However, Ahmadis consider themselves to be Muslims and observe Islamic practices.

Progressive Muslims have produced a considerable body of liberal thought within Islam or " progressive Islam " (, al-Islam at-Taqaddumī ); but some consider progressive Islam and liberal Islam as two distinct movements ).

The vast majority of Salafis reject the Wahhabi label because they consider it unfounded, an object of controversy, holding that Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab did not establish a new school of thought but restored the Islam practiced by the earliest generations of Muslims.

Furthermore, Muslims don't believe Jacob tricked Isaac, by impersonating his twin, Esau, into blessing him as they consider him a righteous prophet of God and that Isaac must have known that Jacob was special from all his children.

The Shi ' a Muslims consider him to be the sixth Imam or leader and spiritual successor to Muhammad.

The majority of Sunni Muslims do not consider the son of Hasan al-Askari to be the Mahdi nor to be in occultation.

The majority of Muslims consider him and his belief as heretical.

Isaac, along with Ishmael, is highly important for Muslims for continuing to preach the message of monotheism after his father Abraham.

Elsewhere in the Qur ' an, Isaac is mentioned in lists: Joseph follows the religion of his forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob ( XII: 38 ) and speaks of God's favor to them ( XII: 6 ); Jacob's sons all testify their faith and promise to worship the God that their forefathers, " Abraham, Ishmael and Isaac ", worshiped ( II: 127 ); and the Qur ' an commands Muslims to believe in the revelations that were given to " Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob and the Patriarchs " ( II: 136 ; III: 84 ).

Muslims believe that he preached the same monotheistic faith as his forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Ishmael.

According to Jewish tradition, the stone is the site where Abraham prepared to sacrifice his son Isaac ; Muslims believe it was Ishmael, not Isaac, who was to be sacrificed.

The Arabic name of the complex reflects the prominence given to Abraham, revered by Muslims as a Quranic prophet and patriarch through Ishmael.

The enclosure is known to Muslims as the Ibrahimi Mosque, as Abraham is a revered prophet of Islam who, according to the Qur ' an, built the Kaaba in Mecca with his son Ishmael.

Abraham and Ishmael further established the rites of pilgrimage, or Hajj, which are still followed by Muslims today.

Muslims maintain that Abraham further asked God to bless both the lines of his progeny, of Ishmael and Isaac, and to keep all of his descendants in the protection of God.

Certain episodes from the life of Abraham have been more heavily detailed in Islamic text, such as the arguments between Abraham and the evil king Nimrod, the near-sacrifice of his son, and the story of Hagar and Ishmael, which Muslims commemorate when performing pilgrimage in Mecca.

The firstborn son of Abraham, Ishmael, is considered by Muslims to be the Father of the Arabs.

For Muslims, he is considered an important prophet of Islam ( see Ibrahim ) and the ancestor of Muhammad through Ishmael.

Muslims regard Isaac as highly important because they believe that it was Isaac and his older half-brother Ishmael who continued their father's legacy and preached the message of God after the death of Abraham.

Elsewhere in the Qur ' an, Isaac is mentioned in lists: Joseph follows the religion of his forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob ( XII: 38 ) and speaks of God's favor to them ( XII: 6 ); Jacob's sons all testify their faith and promise to worship the God that their forefathers, " Abraham, Ishmael and Isaac ", worshiped ( II: 127 ); and the Qur ' an commands Muslims to believe in the revelations that were given to " Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob and the Patriarchs " ( II: 136 ; III: 84 ).

Ishmael ( Yišmaˁel ; Ismaēl ; ; ) is a figure in the Hebrew Bible and the Qur ' an, and was Abraham's first son according to Jews, Christians and Muslims.

Muslims believe that Ishmael was the firstborn of Abraham, born to him from his second wife Hagar.

Ishmael is recognized by Muslims as the ancestor of several prominent Arab tribes and being the forefather of Muhammad.

Muslims also believe that Muhammad was the descendant of Ishmael that would establish a great nation, as promised by God in the Old Testament.

To commemorate the bravery of Hagar and Ishmael, Muslims run between the Safa and Marwah hills during Hajj.

Eid al-Adha (,, " feast of sacrifice "), or Feast of the Sacrifice or Greater Eid, is an important religious holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide to commemorate the willingness of Abraham to sacrifice his son Ishmael as an act of obedience to God, before God intervened to provide him with a sheep to sacrifice instead.

Muslims believe that he preached the same monotheistic faith as his forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Ishmael.

Although the death-bed scene is embellished upon in Jewish Tradition, and mentioned in the Book of Genesis, the Qur ' an mentions it to emphasize upon the notion that Abraham, Isaac, Ishmael and Jacob were all Muslims, as they bowed down in full faith to God and God alone.

Shoaib is understood by Muslims to have been one of the few Arabian prophets mentioned by name in the Qur ' an, the others being Saleh, Hud, Ishmael and Muhammad.