Qur'an 61:6 ('a messenger after me named Ahmad') and the Paraclete
c. c. 625 – c. 750
Place: medina
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The verse and Ibn Ishaq's gospel quotation are attested. That 'Ahmad' answers a reading of Greek parakletos as periklytos ('praised') is a hypothesis.
In Q 61:6 Jesus announces 'a messenger to come after me whose name is Ahmad'. Ibn Ishaq (c. 750) quotes John 15:23–16:1 in a Christian Palestinian Aramaic form, rendering the Paraclete as 'Munahhemana', and identifies it with Muhammad. The connection to the Johannine Paraclete is therefore attested by the 8th century.
People named here
- Jesus
- Muhammad
Links
Text and wording
In
Pseudo-Clementine Homilies and Recognitions
Both have a chain of prophets confirming one revelation and a figure announced by Jesus.
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scholarly hypothesisIn
Peshitta (standard Syriac Bible)
Ibn Ishaq's quotation of John 15 is in Christian Palestinian Aramaic wording.
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attested
Report and reading
Out
Ibn Ishaq identifies the Johannine Paraclete (Munahhemana) with Muhammad.
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Sources
- Qur'an 61:6
Quran.com. Accessed 2026-11-11.
- Ibn Ishaq, Sirat Rasul Allah, trans. A. Guillaume, The Life of Muhammad (OUP 1955) — insider tradition, compiled c. 750, recension of Ibn Hisham d. 833
Internet Archive (lending record). Accessed 2026-11-11.
- Wikipedia: Paraclete
Wikipedia contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0). Accessed 2026-11-11.