Adam in Islam
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Adam, in Islamic theology, is believed to have been the first human being on Earth and the first prophet of Islam. Adam's role as the father of the human race is looked upon by Muslims with reverence.
Adam and Hawwa being nakedly expelled from the Garden.
All angels prostrate before Adam, except Iblis (top-right corner).
Islamic illustration of all angels except Iblis bowing to Adam from a 1575 Shiraz manuscript
Adam and Eve with their thirteen twin children, miniature from Zubdat al-Tawarikh. As the text indicates, all of Adam's children were twins and each son had to marry the twin sister of a brother. Abel was asked by his father to wed Cain's twin sister, who happened to be the most beautiful, and thus Cain wanted to keep her. This is how the dispute started between the two brothers. Islamic artists, when illustrating the story of Adam and Eve, usually showed the couple in paradise but never placed them with their children, nor represented this version of the dispute between Cain and Abel.