Al-Khidr

Life

The Quran tells of Musa finding one of Allah's servants to whom He had given mercy from Himself and taught knowledge from His presence (18:65), and of their journey together. The Quran does not name him; the Prophet ﷺ named him al-Khidr, saying he was so called because he sat on a white patch of ground and it turned green beneath him (al-Bukhari 3402).

islamweb's fatwa says the sound view among scholars is that he was a prophet. On whether he is still alive, its other fatwa records that al-Qurtubi, an-Nawawi, Ibn as-Salah and al-'Iraqi held he lives, while al-Bukhari, Ibn al-'Arabi, Ibn al-Jawzi, Ibn Kathir and ash-Shanqiti held he died, and that nothing cited for his being alive is authentic, as Ibn Kathir said.

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