Prophets & Their Ages

Hazrat Idrees (Alaihi Salaam) Three-hundred and fifty-six (356) years
Hazrat Nooh (Alaihi Salaam) (Noha) Nine-hundred and fifty (950) years
Hazrat Hud (Alaihi Salaam) Two-hundred and sixy-five (265) years
Hazrat Saaleh (Alaihi Salaam) Five-hundred and eighty-six (586) years
Hazrat Ayyoob (Alaihi Salaam) One-hundred and forty-six (146) years
Hazrat Shoayb (Alaihi Salaam) Eight-hundred and eighty-two (882) years
Hazrat Ibraaheem (Alaihi Salaam) One-hundred and ninety-five (195) years
Hazrat Sulaimaan (Alaihi Salaam) One-hundred and fifty (150) years
Hazrat Zakariyya (Alaihi Salaam) Two-hundred and seven (207) years
Hazrat Ya’qoob (Alaihi Salaam) One-hundred and thirty-nine (139) years
Hazrat Moosa (Alaihi Salaam) One-hundred and twenty-five (125) years
Hazrat Ishaaq (Alaihi Salaam) One-hundred and twenty (120) years
Hazrat Haaroon (Alaihi Salaam) One-hundred and nineteen (119) years
Hazrat Ismaaéel (Alaihi Salaam) One-hundred and thirty-seven (137) years
Hazrat Yuusuf (Alaihi Salaam) One-hundred and ten (110) years
Hazrat Yahya (Alaihi Salaam) Ninety-five (95) years
Hazrat Muhammad (Sallallaahu Alayhi Wasallam) Sixty-three (63) years

One is missing, Hz Isa :as: as much I know he is now 2044 year old, am I right?

Btw where your found the ages? I mean references.

Keeping in mind that the ages do not overlap in calculations for the prophets who lived in each others time, we have 5000 years from Adam to Yahya (as). Put a few hundred years between each prophet and it adds up to 7000 years.

Lets take a reference point in history. Birth of Abraham (as), the father of nations. He lived around 4000 years ago. He was born in 2160 BC according to researchers.
Moses (as) was born in 1525 BC. Jesus (as) lived (and died) about 2000 years ago.

Noah's flood took place about 7600 years ago. (5600 BC). There is archeological evidence confirming a flood on a grand scale in the middleast and there are not many who dispute this.

Noah (as) was 10th in the line of descent from Adam. From the book of genesis (old testament) if you follow who begot who, we will see that Noah was born roughly around 1042 years after Adam.

So let us recap.

year 0 Adam------> year 1042 Noah-------> year 1934 Abraham --------> This was 4000 years ago. So roughly speaking our earth from the first day of creation is no more than 6000 years old.

The Mayan Civilization is roughly the same age. Assyrians and Samarians started writing their chronicles around that time. Mohin Judaro (indus civilization) existed 5000 years ago. Their dead were short and their life span was shorter than the western nations today.

Fact of the matter is that the ages given in bible and borrowed by muslim historians are wrong. If bible had mentioned the ages, they were most probably the ages of the influence of prophets and leaders among their progeny.

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year 0 Adam------> year 1042 Noah-------> year 1934 Abraham --------> This was 4000 years ago. So roughly speaking our earth from the first day of creation is no more than 6000 years old.

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Even if for the same of argument we assume all your dates and ages are correct, your conclusion doesn't necessarily follow. The most obvious anomaly is that you've used the ages of certain "people" to decide how old the "earth" is. The creation of the earth (and heavens) is one thing, the creation of man is another. Year 0 (the creation of Adam as you put it) does not equate to the "first day of creation".

ok.. Adam was created on day 6 according to bible. And if i remember correctly it was afternoon of the sixth day.

Some say it was day 7. First day being when God said " Let there be light". So the age of the universe according to many is 6000 years + 7 days.

I think this is the site where he got the info from.

http://www.msapubli.com/affiliated/Html/categories/Jamiatul_ulama/a_prophets.html

Its not necessary to conclude the Earth’s creation time based on the ages of some prophets. We simply don’t know how much time difference is between the two. Moreover, we don’t know how long did Adam spend in Jannah (remember Earth and heavens were created together so was Adam). This 1000 years of age mentioned in some scripters could very well be his Earthy life, not including the time spent in heavens. And remember TIME on Earth is for the planet and the universe only. Time in heaven is a totally different story, as we learned from Hadiths that there will be no time/age in heavens and ppl will live there forever. Another view of this is that in some religious books its mentioned that one year of heaven is equals to 70,000 years on Earth. So you can calculate the actual age Adam, thus the creation of this universe.

wallaho alam.

When God said that He created Earth/Universe in six days, did he not tell you how many years is that each day equal to? :rolleyes: Also, He didn’t necessarily say that Adam AS was sent to the World right on its first day of birth.

In that case we have to see if Adam ever lived in the heavens. As far as Quran tells us, the Jannat where Adam lived was in middle east.

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In that case we have to see if Adam ever lived in the heavens. As far as Quran tells us, the Jannat where Adam lived was in middle east.
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Where in Quran? Verse and ayat number?

Hope you are not just toying with people here. Did you really believe that earth is few thousand years old?

Huh!? :konfused:

As already mentioned… “days” of creation do not necessarily equate to 24 hour periods… in the Qur’an a day has even been defined in some cases as equalling 1,000 years and in some 50,000 years… in the Bible, if i recall, a day in one place is defined as 950 years… so the term “day” isn’t always taken to refer to a standard, fixed period of time…

Noah (as) was 950 years, as confirmed by Quran....

and we dont need to know the rest....

what good wud it do to us to know their ages????

its their message that is significant....

He would have to live to be 950 years old just to cut down enough timber to build an ark large enough to hold 2 of every animal. Another 950 years to gather the millions of different species, and another 950 years to grow and harvest enough food to feed them.

If Noah was 950 years old that Abraham must have met him. Both came from same region. As we know this as a historical fact that Abraham (as) lived long after Noah (as) had passed away and the the great flood took place a few hundred years before Abraham (when Noah (as) was 70) the only conclusion can be that Noah (as) lived no more that 150 years old at the most.

The 950 years refer to the time between him and Abraham.

For others who think that Adam (as) lived in the paradise (that only is achieved after death) than think again. Quran clearly states that those who enter paradise will NEVER leave it again.

How do you know the few hundred years difference b/w Noah and Abraham?

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If Noah was 950 years old that Abraham must have met him. Both came from same region. As we know this as a historical fact that Abraham (as) lived long after Noah (as) had passed away and the the great flood took place a few hundred years before Abraham (when Noah (as) was 70) the only conclusion can be that Noah (as) lived no more that 150 years old at the most.
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You are already starting to contradict yourself – usually a sure sign of someone who doesn't know what he's talking about. Earlier you posted that Abraham was born 2160 BC and that the flood took place in 5600 BC. So that's a gap of 3440 years! And now you are saying, "the great flood took place a few hundred years before Abraham."! You call 3440 years a few hundred years! So obviously Noah, who lived 950 years, didn't live to see Abraham's generation.

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For others who think that Adam (as) lived in the paradise (that only is achieved after death) than think again. Quran clearly states that those who enter paradise will NEVER leave it again.
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What happened to your, "As far as Quran tells us, the Jannat where Adam lived was in middle east"??

I am sorry for the "contradiction" that you see in the post. Infact the source for the date of "Noah's flood" was scientific. And a difference of a few centuries exists in their estimates. When i said that Ahraham must have seen Noah, that was based on another estimate by a muslim source where the dates were derived from the religious tradition of Bible and Muslim historians. I will clarify this after getting the facts and figures.

The "Jannat" (lit. a place covered in dense vegetation and trees, an orchid) i mentioned was the earthly paradise where soil was fertile and vegetation was abundant and people lived in peace. This Jannat has been described as reward for righteous muslims which they recieved when they conquered the lands of euphrates and Tigris and Nile,and later Indus and Ganges. The other paradise (the eternal abode for the rghteous after their death) is the one from where people will not be driven out ever. That is the promise of Allah.

^ Okay, come back when you've got your new "facts and figures" and changed the batteries in your calculator.

kafirs and their knowledge about islam can not be trusted. he is doubting that noah :as: lived 950 years…and claims he it must be 150, while quran tells us that he lived for 950 years among his people.

And indeed We sent Nûh (Noah) to his people, and he stayed among them a thousand years less fifty years, and the Deluge overtook them while they were Zâlimûn (wrong-doers, polytheists, disbelievers, etc.). (Al-'Ankabut 29:14)

it could me more too because it mentions the age and then mentions that the flood overtook them and we know that nuuh :as: lived after the flood too…so may be he lived 950 years before the flood and lived some time after it too…wallah o alam.

^ I know Tafsir al Qurtubi gives various opinions as to Nuh's (as) age... namely at what age he began his mission, how long he carried it out and how long after the flood he lived... but they are only opinions unless supported by revelation as we are dealing with knowledge of the unseen...

if you like i can look them up and list them

yeah brother i would appreaciate it.and as you noted, i said “it could” be, so i never claimed that my opinions were truth, i just said it is possible after reading quran that one can get this interpretation but what is not debatable that nuh :as: lived for atleat 950 years among his people.