Hajar, mother of Ismaʿil, is not named in the Quran, which reports Ibrahim’s prayer for his family settled “in a valley without cultivation, near Your Sacred House” (14:37). Left alone with the child, she asked: “Is it Allah who commanded you to do this?”, then said: “Then He will not abandon us”; her running between al-Safa and al-Marwa is the origin of the pilgrims’ saʿy (al-Bukhari 3364).
Meaning of the name Hajar
Hajar is the Arabic form of Hagar (Hebrew Hagar), the mother of Ismaʿil. The meaning of the name is uncertain: tradition says she was Egyptian, and her name has been compared with the Semitic root h-g-r, “to leave, to emigrate”, that of the Hijra, which would make her “the emigrant”; this is only a comparison. In Turkish, Hacer is spelled like hajar, “stone” (Hacerü’l-Esved, the Black Stone), a different Arabic word.
In Arabic
هَاجَرهاجر
Transliteration
Hājar
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Is Hajar in the Quran?
No: the name Hajar does not appear in the Quran. A name can be beautiful and permissible without coming from the Quran.
Ibn ‘Abbās (may Allah be pleased with him) reported: “While the mother of Isma‘īl was breastfeeding her son Isma‘īl, Ibrahīm (peace be upon him) brought them to a place near the House (the Ka‘bah); under a tree on the spot of Zamzam and the highest place in the Mosque. During those days there was…
