Ishmael

Ishmael, the son of Abraham, by Hagar, the Egyptian handmaid of his wife Sarah. In the story of his life given in Genesis he was driven at fifteen from his father's house along with his mother, and grew up to manhood in the southern wilderness a famous archer. He became the progenitor of a great nation, and the character of the Arabs was supposed to have been foretold in Gen. xvi. 12. Mohammed asserted his descent from Ishmael, and the Mohammedan doctors declare that Ishmael, and not Isaac, was offered up in sacrifice—transferring the scene of this act from Moriah in Palestine to Mount Arafát near Mecca.