Idrīs ﷺ
إدريسCommonly rendered in English as Enoch.
The Qurʾan says Allah raised Idrīs to a high station. The classical commentators transmitted that he was the first to write with a pen and to read the stars.
- Era
- Pre-flood antiquity
- Region
- Traditional Babylon / Egypt
- Sent to
- His people
Taught the pen, astronomy, and the stitching of cloth
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Ibn Kathir's Stories of the Prophets, narrated chapter by chapter in the Joyful Muslims app.