List of characters and names mentioned in the Quran

Theological

• Allāh
• * Names and attributes of Allah found in the Quran

Angels

• Angels of Hell
• * Mālik
• * Zabāniyah
• Bearers of the Throne
• Harut and MarutKirāman Kātibīn
• Isma'il, not to be confused with the Prophet Isma'il

Archangels

• Jibrīl
• * Ar-Rūḥ,
• ** Ar-Rūḥ al-Amīn
• ** Ar-Rūḥ al-Qudus
• Angel of the Trumpet Malakul-Mawt
• Mika'il

Jinn

• ''Qarīn''

Devils

• Iblīs ash-Shayṭān
• ''Mārid''

Others

Animals

Related

• The baqarah '' of the Israelites
• The dhiʾb that Jacob feared could attack Joseph, and who was blamed for his disappearance
• The fīl of Abraha
• The hud-hud of Solomon
• The kalb of the sleepers of the cave
• The namlah of Solomon
• The nāqat of Salih
• The nūn of Jonah
• The ḥūt of MosesDābbat al-Arḍ''

Non-related

• ''Qaswarah''

Prophets

• Adam, the first human
• Elisha 38:48, 6:85-87
• Job
• David
• Dhūl-kifl
• Aaron
• Hud
• Enoch
• Elijah
• Joachim
• Isaac
• Ishmael
• * Dhabih Ullah
• Lūṭ
• Ṣāliḥ
• Shuʿayb
• Sulaymān ibn Dāwūd
• Yaḥyā ibn Zakariyyā
• Ya‘qūb
• Yūnus
• * Dhūn-Nūn " or "Owner of the Fish
• * Ṣāḥib al-Ḥūt
• Yūsuf ibn Yaʿqūb
• Zakariyyā

''ʾUlu al-ʿAzm''

• Muhammad, the final seal of the prophets
• * Ahmad
• * Other names and titles of Muhammad
• ʿĪsā ibn Maryam
• * Al-Masīḥ
• * Ibn Maryam
• * Child / Pure boy
• * Guidance
• * Messenger / Prophet
• * other terms and titles
• ** Sign
• ** The Gift
• ** Mercy from God
• ** Servant
• ** Blessed
• **
• ** Amazing thing / Thing unheard of
• ** Example
• ** Straight Path / Right Way
• ** Witness
• ** His Name
• * 3rd person "He / Him / Thee"
• * 1st person "I / Me"
• Mūsā Kalīm Allāh
• Ibrāhīm Khalīl Allāh
• Nūḥ

Debatable ones

• Dhūl-Qarnain
• Luqmān
• Ṭālūt
• Uzair
• Daniyal

Implicitly mentioned

• Irmiyā
• Ṣamūʾīl
• Yūshaʿ ibn Nūn
• Khidr, described but not mentioned by name in the Quran
• Shamʿūn
• Kalab

Contemporaries, relatives or followers of Prophets

Good ones

• Adam's immediate relatives
• * Martyred son
• * Wife
• Believer of Ya-Sin
• Family of Noah
• * Mother Shamkhah bint Anush or Betenos
• People of Aaron and Moses
• * Egyptians
• ** Believer
• ** Imraʾat Firʿawn
• ** Magicians of the Pharaoh
• * Wise, pious man
• * Moses' wife
• * Moses' sister-in-law
• * Mother
• * Sister
• People of Abraham
• * Mother Abiona or Amtelai the daughter of Karnebo
• * Ishmael's mother
• * Isaac's mother
• People of Jesus
• * Disciples
• * Mary's mother
• * Zechariah's wife
• People of Joseph
• * Brothers
• * Egyptians
• ** ʿAzīz
• ** Malik )
• ** Wife of ʿAzīz
• * Mother
• People of Solomon
• * Mother
• * Queen of Sheba
• * Vizier
• Zayd, Muhammad's adopted son

Evil ones

• Āzar
• * Father of Abraham
• Firʿawn
• Hāmān
• Jālūt
• Qārūn
• As-Sāmirī
• Abī Lahab
• Slayers of Salih's she-camel

Implicitly or non-specifically mentioned

• ʿImrān
• Abraha
• Bal'am or Balaam
• Barṣīṣā
• Caleb or Kaleb the companion of Joshua
• Luqman's son
• Nebuchadnezzar II
• Nimrod
• Rahmah the wife of Ayyub
• Shaddad

Groups

Mentioned

• * People of Paradise
• * People of the Burnt GardenAṣḥāb as-Sabt
• Christian apostles
• * Ḥawāriyyūn
• Companions of Noah's ArkAṣḥāb al-Kahf war-Raqīm
• Companions of the Elephant
• People of al-Ukhdūd
• People of a township in Surah Ya-Sin
• People of Yathrib or MedinaQawm Lūṭ
• Nation of Noah

Tribes, ethnicities or families

• * ʿĀd
• * Companions of the Rass
• * Qawm Tubbaʿ
• ** [Sabaeans|People of Sabaeans|Sabaʾ or Sheba]
• * Quraysh
• * Thamūd
• ** Aṣḥāb al-Ḥijr
• ʿAjamAr-Rūm Banī Isrāʾīl Muʾtafikāt
• People of Ibrahim
• People of Ilyas
• People of Nuh
• People of Shuaib
• * Ahl Madyan, People of Madyan)
• * Aṣ-ḥāb al-Aykah Qawm Yūnus Ahl al-Bayt
• * Household of Abraham
• ** Brothers of Yūsuf
• ** Daughters of Abraham's nephew Lot
• ** Progeny of Imran
• ** Household of Moses
• ** Household of Muhammad ibn Abdullah ibn Abdul-Muttalib ibn Hashim
• *** Daughters of Muhammad
• *** Wives of Muhammad
• * Household of Salih
• People of Fir'aun
• Current Ummah of Islam (Ummah of Muhammad)
• * Aṣ-ḥāb Muḥammad
• ** Anṣār
• ** Muhājirūn
• ** Ḥizbullāh
• People of Mecca
• * Wife of Abu Lahab
• Children of Ayyub
• Sons of Adam
• Wife of Nuh
• Wife of LutYaʾjūj wa Maʾjūj (Gog and Magog)
• Son of Nuh

Implicitly mentioned

• AmalekAhl as-Suffa
• Banu Nadir
• Banu Qaynuqa
• Banu Qurayza
• Iranian peoples
• Umayyad Dynasty
• Aus & Khazraj
• People of Quba
• Abyssinian people

Religious groups

• Muslims
• * Believers
• * Righteous onesAhl al-Kitāb
• * Naṣārā or People of the Injil)
• ** Ruhban (Christian monks)
• ** Qissis (Christian priest)
• * Yahūd
• ** Ahbār (Jewish scholars)
• ** Rabbani/Rabbi
• * Sabians
• Polytheists
• * Meccan polytheists at the time of Muhammad
• * Mesopotamian polytheists at the time of Abraham and Lot

Locations

Mentioned

• * 'Blessed' land
• In the Arabian Peninsula :
• * Al-Aḥqāf
• ** Iram dhāt al-ʿImād
• * Al-Madīnah
• * ʿArafāt
• * Al-Ḥijr
• * Badr
• * Ḥunayn
• * Makkah
• ** Al-Balad al-Amīn
• ** Bakkah
• ** Ḥaraman Āminan
• ** Kaʿbah
• *** Al-Bayt al-ʿAṭīq
• *** Al-Bayt al-Ḥarām
• ** Maqām Ibrāhīm
• ** Safa and Marwah
• ** Umm al-Qurā
• * Sabaʾ
• ** ʿArim Sabaʾ
• * RassAl-Jannah Jahannam
• In Mesopotamia:
• * Al-Jūdiyy
• ** Munzalanm-Mubārakan
• * Bābil
• * Qaryat Yūnus
• Door of HittahMadyan Majmaʿ al-Baḥrayn Miṣr Salsabīl
• Sinai Region or Tīh Desert
• * Al-Wād Al-Muqaddasi Ṭuwan
• ** Al-Wādil-Ayman
• *** Al-Buqʿah Al-Mubārakah
• * Mount Sinai or Mount Tabor
• ** Al-Jabal
• ** Aṭ-Ṭūr
• ** Ṭūr Sīnāʾ
• ** Ṭūr Sīnīn

Religious locations

• MonasteryMasjid
• * Al-Mashʿar Al-Ḥarām
• * Al-Masjid Al-Aqṣā
• * Al-Masjid Al-Ḥarām
• * Masjid Al-Dirar
• * A Mosque in the area of Medina, possibly:
• ** Masjid Qubāʾ
• ** The Prophet's Mosque
• Salat (Synagogue)

Implicitly mentioned

• Antioch
• * Antakya
• Arabia
• * Al-Ḥijāz
• ** Black Stone (Al-Ḥajar al-Aswad) & Al-Hijr of Isma'il
• ** Cave of Hira
• ** Ghār ath-Thawr (Cave of the Bull)
• ** Hudaybiyyah
• ** Ta'if
• Ayla
• Barrier of Dhul-Qarnayn
• Bayt al-Muqaddas & 'ArihaBilād ar-Rāfidayn
• Canaan
• Cave of the Seven SleepersDār an-Nadwa
• Jordan River
• Nile River
• Palestine River
• Paradise of Shaddad

Plant matter

• Baṣal
• Thum
• Shaṭʾ
• Sūq
• ''Zarʿ''

Fruits

• In Paradise
• * Forbidden fruit of Adam

Plants

• Plants of Sheba
• * Athl
• * Sidr Līnah Nakhl Rayḥān
• Sidrat al-Muntahā
• Zaqqūm

Holy books

• * Ṣuḥuf-i-Mūsā
• * Tablets of StoneAz-Zabūr
• ''Umm al-Kitāb''

Objects of people or beings

• Heavenly Food of Christian Apostles
• Noah's Ark
• Staff of Moses
• Staff of SolomonTābūt as-Sakīnah
• Throne of the Queen of Sheba
• Trumpet of Israfil

Mentioned idol">Idolatry">idols ([cult image]s)

• 'AnsābJibt and ''Ṭāghūt''

Of Israelites

• Baʿal
• The ʿijl of Israelites

Of Noah's people

• Nasr
• Suwāʿ
• Wadd
• Yaghūth
• Yaʿūq

Of Quraysh

• * Al-Lāt
• * Al-ʿUzzā
• * Manāt

Celestial bodies

• * Al-Arḍ Nujūm
• * Ash-Shams
• * ''Ash-Shiʿrā''

Liquids

• * Nahr
• * Yamm
• ''Sharāb''

Chemical elements

• Gold
• Silver
• Iron, also a name of Sura in Quran
• Copper

Events, incidents, occasions or times

• Year of the Elephant
• Incident of IfkLaylat al-Qadr
• * Laylatinm-Mubārakatin
• MubahalahSayl al-ʿArim
• The Farewell Pilgrimage
• Treaty of Hudaybiyyah

Battles or military expeditions

• Battle of al-Aḥzāb
• Battle of Badr
• Battle of Hunayn
• Battle of Khaybar
• Battle of Uhud
• Conquest of Mecca
• Expedition of Tabuk

Days

• Days of battles or military expeditions
• Days of Hajj
• * Ayyāminm-Maʿdūdatin
• * Yawm al-Ḥajj al-Akbar
• Doomsday

Months of the [Islamic calendar]

• Four holy months
• * Ash-Shahr Al-Ḥarām
• * Ramaḍān

Pilgrimages

• * Ḥajj al-Bayt
• * Ḥijj al-Bayt
• ''Al-ʿUmrah''

Times for Prayer or Remembrance

• * Al-Bukrah
• * Aṣ-Ṣabāḥ Al-Layl
• * Al-ʿIshāʾ Aẓ-Ẓuhr
• * Aẓ-Ẓahīrah Dulūk ash-Shams
• * Al-Masāʾ
• * Qabl al-Ghurūb
• ** Al-Aṣīl
• ** Al-ʿAṣr Qabl ṭulūʿ ash-Shams
• * Al-Fajr

Implied

• Event of Ghadir Khumm Laylat al-Mabit
• The first pilgrimage

Others

• Bayt
• * Al-Bayt al-Maʿmūr
• Ḥunafāʾ
• Ṭāhā
• Ṭayyibah
• Zīnah, Adornment, beauty, beautiful thing or splendour)