Who is prophet danial?

Answer 1

Allah Saves Daniel from Lions

Ibn Abi Al-Dunya narrated the following, based on a chain of citations. NEbuchadnezzar captured two lions and threw them into a pit. He then brought Daniel and threw him at them; yet they did not pounce at him; rather, he remained as Allah wished. When then he desired food and drink, Allah revealed to Jeremiah, who was in Sham (Palestine/Syria): "Prepare food and drink for Daniel." He said: "0 Lord I am in Jerusalem while Daniel is in Babylon (Iraq)." Allah revealed to him: "Do what I have commanded you to do, and I shall send you one who will carry you and what you have prepared." Jeremiah did so and Allah sent him something that would carry him until he arrived at the brink of the pit.

Then Daniel asked: "Who is this?" He answered: "I am Jeremiah." He asked: "What brought you?" He answered: "Your Lord sent me to you." He said: "And so my Lord has remembered me?" He said: "Yes." Daniel said: "Praise be to Allah Who has never forgotten me! And Praise be to Allah Who never forgets those who appeal to Him! And Praise be to Him Who compensates good with good, rewards patience with safety, dispels harm after distress, assures us when we are overwhelmed, and is our hope when skill fails us."

Daniel After Death

Yunus Ibn Bakeer reported that Muhammad Ibn Ishaaq reported that Abu Khalid Ibn Dinar reported that Abul Aalia said: "When Tastar was invaded, we found, in the treasure house of Al-Harmazan, a bed on which lay a dead man, with a holy script at his bedside. We took the scripture to Umar Ibn Al-Khattab. He called Ka'b and he translated it into Arabic, and I was the first Arab to read it. I read it as I read the Qur'an." Here, I (i.e. Khalid Ibn Dinar) said to Abul Aalia: "What was in it?" He said: "Life history, annals, songs, speech, and what is to come." I asked: "And what did you do with the man?" He said: "We dug in the river bank thirteen separate graves. At nightfall we buried him and leveled all the graves in order to mislead people for they would tamper with him." I asked: "And what did they want from him?" He said: "When the sky was cloudless for them, they went out with his bed, and it rained." I asked: "Who did you think the man was?" He said: "A man called Daniel." I asked: "And for how long had he been dead when you found him?" He said: 'Three hundred years." I asked: "Did not anything change on him?" He said: "No, except for the hairs of his face (beard and mustache); the skin of the prophets is not harmed by the earth, nor devoured by hyenas."

The chain of citation from Abul 'Aa'lia is good, but if the date of the dead man's death was really three hundred years, then he was not a prophet but a saintly man, because there was no prophet between Jesus and the Prophet Muhammad , according to the hadith in Bukhari. The span between them (i.e. the dead man and Muhammad ) was variously reported as four hundred, six hundred, and six hundred twenty years. It could be that he had died eight hundred years earlier, which would be near to Daniel's time, if his being Daniel is correct. However, he could still have been somebody else, either a prophet or a saint. Yet the truth is more likely that he was Daniel, because he had been taken by the King of Persia and remained imprisoned, as already mentioned.

It was narrated with a correct citation that his nose was one span (nine inches)long. Anas Ibn Malik, with good citation, said that his nose was an arm's stretch long (two feet), on which basis he is thought to be an ancient prophet from before this period. Almighty Allah knows best.

Daniel's Death - Hadith

Abu Bakr Ibn Abu Dunya wrote in the book Ahkam-alQubur (The Rules of Graves), based on a long chain of citation, that the Prophet said: "Daniel prayed to his Lord, Great and Majestic for the nation of Muhammad to bury him." And he (i.e. Muhammad, pbuh) said: "Whoever discovers Daniel give him tidings of Paradise." The man who discovered him (his corpse) was called Harqus. Umar sent to Abu Musa saying: "Bury him; and send to Harqus, for the Prophet has given him promise of Paradise."

This hadith is mursal (it has a good chain of citation) as it is recorded, and Allah knows best.

After Daniel's Death - Variation

Thn Abu Dunya reported from Abu Bilal that Abu Musa found with Daniel a holy script and a container in which were dirhams, his ring and ointment. He wrote to 'Umar, who replied: "Send the scripture to us, send some of the ointment, tell the Muslims who are with you to use it, share the dirhams among them, and leave the ring for you.

Abu Dunya related without citation that when Abu Musa was told that he was Daniel, he stayed with him, embraced him, and kissed him. Then he wrote to 'Umar that he found with him nearly ten thousand dirhams. It used to be that people came to borrow from it, and if they did not return it, they became sick. 'Umar ordered his burial in a grave to be kept secret and the money to be sent to the treasury, with the box and the ring a gift to him (Abu Musa).

It is related of Abu Musa that he told four of the captives to dam the river and dig a grave in the middle, where he buried him. Then he beheaded the four captives in order for the secret to be kept from all except himself.

Daniel's Ring

Ibn Abu Dunya also reported, by a chain of citations, that a ring was seen on the hand of Ibn Abu Barda Ibn Abu Musa. The gem was carved with two lions with a man between them, whom they were licking. Abu Barda said: 'This is the ring of that man whom the people of this town say is Daniel. Abu Musa took it the day he was buried. The learned people of that town told Abu Musa that soothsayers and astrologers told the king in Daniel's time that a boy would be born who would destroy him and his kingdom. So the king swore to kill all the baby boys, except that they threw Daniel in the lions' den, and the lion and lioness began to lick him and did not harm him. His mother came and took him. Abu Musa said: 'And so Daniel carved his image and the image of the two lions into the gem of his ring, for him not to forget Allah's blessing upon him in this."' This has a good citation.

Answer 2

He was part of the upper crust society of Jerusalem, a young man taken into captivity in Babylon by king Nebucadnezzar in order to serve him in his palace. However, he is only considered a prophet by Christians, he is not considered a prophet by Jews.

Answer 3

Daniel is not considered a prophet, because a prophet's job was to speak directly to the people and about immediate events. I attended a Christian University for an academic year and one of the classes that was required was Old Testament literature. The professor, who made frequent visits to Israel and was an amateur archaelogist, stated that most prophets spoke of immediate future events. In fact, in a rare moment of exacting accuracy that article of Wikipedia is actually correct; Daniel can not be considered a prophet. Heard it from a University professor's own mouth once.

Daniel however, nowhere in the Tanakh, known to you as the Old Testament, was not a Eunuch. For one thing, the ancient Babylonians only castrated their harem guards, and even such a thing was not without compensation; any male relatives, were handsome paid, and usually they only castrated the youngest sons of a family those not charged with continuing the bloodline. Daniel and company (his cousins), were political prisoners, and if anything, being royalty they would have been provided with concubines. Trust me on this; both among his own people, and even the people of Iraq, Daniel left descendants. The Rabbinical writting, is not accurate; while castration WAS practiced among the ancient Babylonians, again, that was the harem guard's curse, not any palace guests (read; prisoners).

The argument that Daniel was castrated comes from a Rabbinical writting that claims "that is the reason no one could accuse him of immorality." Problem is, what is considered immoral NOW, may not have been immoral to the ancient Babylonians. It was immoral, to seduce a free woman, or a married woman, but it was not immoral to keep a concubine solely for the purpose of well, you get the picture. In ancient times, young men of royal blood were always provided with pretty teenaged girls; I hate to tell you this but Daniel would have been no different.

As a matter of fact, what saved Daniel from accusations of immoral behavior, is that "he rejected Nebuchadnezzar's hospitality, and gifts, and prefered to live simply" paraphrase mine. In ancient Babylon "hospitality" would have been being given a pretty girl. Also, having sex with a free woman, if you were married, that was considered adultery, same if it was a prostitute, however if the woman was "property," that is a slave girl, it was not considered adultery. No accusations of immoral behavior could be made against Daniel, because when spies were sent to him to keep an eye on him, all they ever saw him doing was praying. No reccords are given, as to whether or not Daniel was married but then again, the Tanakh gives the women in important Biblical figure's lives little importance.

Take for example Enoch's wife, the woman who gave birth to Methuselah; what was her name? We don't know the name of Noah's mother either, or for that matter Abraham's although the Arabs claim to know it.

Answer 4

A Jew taken by the Babylonians after they conquered Judea and destroyed Jerusalem. He and many other Jews were taken to Babylon and put in training schools with the intention that they would eventually work in the Court of King Nebuchadnezzar or in other Babylonian government positions and forget their old lives.

Daniel however began interpreting dreams and providing other prophetic services, which put him in high demand. He also had his own prophetic visions and dreams and wrote much of the book of Daniel in the Old Testament (there are indications that others wrote the ending and some other sections).

Answer 5

He was a Jew who became highly-placed in the courts of the kings of Babylonia and Medea. According to traditional chronology, Daniel lived from about 435 BCE to about 340 BCE. His gravesite is known to this day, in Susa, Iran. (See also: Jewish history timeline)

Ch.1 - Daniel in Nevuchadnezzar's palace; insists on kosher food.
Ch.2 - Daniel interprets the king's (Nevuchadnezzar's) dream, of a beast made of gold, silver, brass, iron and clay. It hints to four kingdoms.
Ch.3 - Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, Daniel's young friends, refuse to bow to a statue put up by the king. They are cast into a furnace but God prevents the fire from burning them.
Ch.4 - The king dreams of a great tree cut down and a man humbled by losing his sanity and living among the animals. Daniel tells him that this would befall him, the king; and it came true.
Ch.5 - The Chaldean king Belshazzar sees a disembodied hand writing on a wall. Daniel tells him that the mysterious words hint that his (Belshazzar's) rule will not last. Belshazzar is killed that very night.
Ch.6 - Daniel continues his regular prayers despite a decree forbidding such prayers. The king, Darius, has him tossed among hungry lions, but God prevents them from harming him.
Ch.7 - Daniel dreams of four strange beasts, hinting to four kingdoms.
Ch.8 - Daniel has a vision of a ram and a goat, hinting to Persia, Medea and Greece.
Ch.9 - Daniel prays to God.
Ch.10 - Daniel speaks to the angel.
Ch.11 - The angel tells Daniel of future wars between kings.
Ch.12 - Daniel is told that the meaning of the prophecy will remain hidden until the end-times.See also:

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