what is the name of the first prophet of islam?
Muhammad
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 Muḥammad ( Arabic : محمد ; c . 570 CE – 8 June 632 CE ) is the central figure of Islam and widely regarded as its founder by non @-@ Muslims . He is known to Muslims as the " Holy Prophet " , almost all of whom consider him to be the last prophet sent by God to mankind to restore Islam , which they believe to be the unaltered original monotheistic faith of Adam , Abraham , Moses , Jesus , and other prophets . He united Arabia into a single Muslim polity and ensured that his teachings , practices , and the Quran , which Muslims believe was revealed to him by God , formed the basis of Islamic religious belief . 

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 Muhammad was born in Mecca and lived there for roughly the first 52 years of his life ( c . 570 – 622 ) . This period is generally divided into two phases , before and after declaring his prophetic visions . 

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 According to Muslim tradition , Muhammad 's wife Khadija was the first to believe he was a prophet . She was followed by Muhammad 's ten @-@ year @-@ old cousin Ali ibn Abi Talib , close friend Abu Bakr , and adopted son Zaid . Around 613 , Muhammad began to preach to the public ( Quran 26 : 214 ) . Most Meccans ignored him and mocked him , though a few became his followers . There were three main groups of early converts to Islam : younger brothers and sons of great merchants ; people who had fallen out of the first rank in their tribe or failed to attain it ; and the weak , mostly unprotected foreigners . 

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 In Islam , Jesus ( commonly transliterated as Isa ) is considered one of God 's important prophets and the Messiah . According to the Quran , Jesus was a bringer of scripture and was born of a virgin but was not the Son of God . The Quran says that Jesus himself never claimed divinity , and predicts that at the Last Judgment , Jesus will deny having ever made such a claim ( Quran 5 : 116 ) . To most Muslims , Jesus was not crucified but was physically raised into Heaven by God . Judaism rejects the belief that Jesus was the awaited Messiah , arguing that his death on the cross signifies that he was rejected by God and that his resurrection is a Christian legend . 

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 A major figure in Islam , Jesus ( commonly transliterated as ʾĪsā ) is considered to be a messenger of God ( Allah ) and the Messiah ( al @-@ Masih ) who was sent to guide the Children of Israel ( Bani Isra 'il ) with a new scripture , the Gospel ( referred to in Islam as Injil ) . Muslims regard the gospels of the New Testament as inauthentic , and believe that Jesus ' original message was lost or altered and that Muhammad came later to restore it . Belief in Jesus ( and all other messengers of God ) is a requirement for being a Muslim . The Quran mentions Jesus by name 25 times — more often than Muhammad — and emphasizes that Jesus was a mortal human who , like all other prophets , had been divinely chosen to spread God 's message . While the Qur 'an acknowledges the Virgin birth of Jesus , He is considered to be neither the incarnation nor the son of God . Islamic texts emphasize a strict notion of monotheism ( tawhid ) and forbid the association of partners with God , which would be idolatry . Like all prophets in Islam , Jesus is considered a Muslim . 
