@Areader
I do not believe in any religion per say, I am spiritual but it is not influenced by any organized religion though my spiritual beliefs would be considered western as its roots stem from my being raised simply a Christian.
Therefore I am not a “believer” of the Islamic religion but I have a personal interest in history and try to study all historical documents to further my understanding of past events.
As far as Abraham goes I understand that his travel to “Arabia” happened “before” he had traveled to Canaan and even before his stay in Harran and before Ishmael’s having left with his mother and former slave of Abraham, Hagar.
Some scholars identify the Biblical Haran with Harran. Genesis 27:43 makes Haran the home of Laban and connects it with Isaac and Jacob: Jacob spent 20 years in Haran working for his uncle Laban (cf. Genesis 31:38&41). The place-name should not be confused with Haran (Hebrew: הָרָן), Abraham’s brother and Lot’s father — note that the two names are spelled differently in the original Hebrew.
Islamic tradition also links Harran to Aran, the brother of Abraham. (cf. Genesis 11:26-32)
Whats odd is that Josephus, Islamic tradition, and Jewish authorities like Maimonides all concur that Abraham was born in Northern Mesopotamia — now southeastern Turkey (identified with Urkesh, Urartu, Urfa, and Kutha respectively).
Yet Abraham’s city of birth Ur Kaśdim in the Hebrew Bible has been popularly identified since 1927 by Sir Charles Woolley with the Sumerian city of Ur, in southern Mesopotamia,right on the border of Arabia.
NOTE: Both Jewish and Christian traditions also consider Ishmael as the ancestor of Arab people. Arabic culture was first spread in the Middle East by the ethnically Arab Christians such as the Ghassanids, Lakhmids, Banu Judham and the Banu Hashim of which Muhammad belonged.
According to Jewish tradition (based on the Anno Mundi era introduced by Maimonides in the 12th century), Abraham lived AM 1948–2123 (1812 BC to 1637 BC). Christian traditional dates are about 2000 BC to 1825 BC. So Abraham had plenty of time to travel to Arabia.
As far as the stone goes. Yes I do assume it’s merely a meteorite.
