(5) The account of Hagar leaving Abraham’s home is given in numerous traditions. But there are two traditions given by Ibn ʿAbbās, and recorded in the Ṣaḥīḥ of al-Buk͟hārī, which are the foundation of Muḥammadan history on the subject. We give them as they have been translated by Syud Ahmad Khan, and afterwards append the Scripture narrative, which can be compared with the traditions of Islām:—
Tradition I.
For reasons known only to Abraham and his wife, Sarah, the former took Ishmael, his son, and the boy’s mother (Hagar), and left his country.
And they had with them a skin full of water.
Ishmael’s mother drank from out the skin, suckling her child.
Upon her arriving at the place where Mecca now stands, she placed the child under a bush.
Then Abraham returned to come back to his wife, and the mother of Ishmael followed him,
Until she reached Keda.
And she called out, “O Abraham, with whom leavest thou me?”
He answered, “With God.”