54 Preface وَاذكُر فِي الكِتابِ إِسماعيلَ ۚ إِنَّهُ كانَ صادِقَ الوَعدِ وَكانَ رَسولًا نَبِيًّاYusuf AliAlso mention in the Book (the story of) Isma?il: He was (strictly) true to what he promised,1 and he was a messenger (and) a prophet.Isma'il was Dhadih God, i.e., the chosen sacrifice of God in Muslim tradition. When Abraham told him of the sacrifice, he voluntarily offered himself for it, and never flinched from his promise, until the sacrifice was redeemed by the substitution of a ram under God’s commands. He was the fountainhead of the Arabian Ummah, and in his posterity came the Prophet of God. The Ummah and the Book of Islam reflect back the prophethood on Isma'il.