who was ishmael's mom?
Hagar
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 Ishmaelism in this more limited definition holds that Ishmael was both an important religious figure and eponymous ancestor for some of the Arabs of western Arabia . Prominence is given in Arab genealogical accounts to the first two of Ishmael 's twelve sons , Nebaioth ( Arabic : نبيت , Nabīt ) and Qedar ( Arabic : قيدار , Qaydār ) , who are also prominently featured in the Genesis account . It is likely that they and their tribes lived in northwestern Arabia and were historically the most important of the twelve Ishamelite tribes . 

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 Finally , in 1912 , a fourth child was born , christened Elizabeth Forbes @-@ Sempill , and known to the family as " Betty " . 

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 When Isaac was 40 , Abraham sent Eliezer , his steward , into Mesopotamia to find a wife for Isaac , from his nephew Bethuel 's family . Eliezer chose the Aramean Rebekah for Isaac . After many years of marriage to Isaac , Rebekah had still not given birth to a child and was believed to be barren . Isaac prayed for her and she conceived . Rebekah gave birth to twin boys , Esau and Jacob . Isaac was 60 years old when his two sons were born . Isaac favored Esau , and Rebekah favored Jacob . 

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 Eisner called the story 's creation " an exercise in personal anguish " as he was still grieved and angered over his daughter Alice 's death from leukemia at 16 . In early sketches of the story , Eisner used her name for Hersh 's adopted daughter , and expressed his own anguish through Hersh . He stated , " [ Hersh 's ] argument with God was mine . I exorcised my rage at a deity that I believed violated my faith and deprived my lovely 16 @-@ year @-@ old child of her life at the very flowering of it . " 

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 Sanaubar is Ali 's wife and the mother of Hassan . Shortly after Hassan 's birth , she runs away from home and joins a group of traveling dancers . She later returns to Hassan in his adulthood . To make up for her neglect , she provides a grandmother figure for Sohrab , Hassan 's son . 
