The number of prophets (alaihimus-salam; invocation, wishing peace be upon Prophets) is not known. It is widely known that there were more than 124,000. Of them, 313 or 315 were rasuls; the six higher rasuls among them, called ‘Ulul-azm’, were: Adam, Nuh (Noah), Ibrahim (Abraham), Musa (Moses), Isa (Jesus) and Muhammad Mustafa (alaihimus-salatu was-salam). The following 33 prophets are well-known: Adam, Idris (Enoch), Sheth (Shis), Nuh (Noah), Hud (Heber), Salih (Methusaleh), Ibrahim (Abraham), Lut (Lot), Ismail (Ishmael), Ishaq (Isaac), Yaqub (Jacob), Yusuf (Joseph), Ayyub (Job), Shuaib (Jethro), Musa (Moses), Harun (Aaron), Khidir, Yusha ibn Nun (Joshua), Ilyas (Elias), Alyasa (Elisha), Dhul-kifl (Ezekiel), Shamun, Ishmoil (Ismail), Yunus ibn Mata (Jonah), Dawud (David), Sulaiman (Solomon), Luqman, Zakariyya (Zachariah), Yahya (John the Baptist), Uzair (Ezra), Isa ibn Mariam (Jesus), Dhul-qarnayn (Zulqarnayn) and Muhammad (alaihimus-salatu was-salam). The names of only 28 of them are written in the Quran al-Karim. Sheth, Khidir, Yusha, Shamun and Ishmoil are not written. It is not certain whether Dhul-qarnain, Luqman and Uzair were prophets or not.
