Likewise, the Torah contains a glad tidings given to Hagar regarding Ishmael in which God says: “I shall make of him a nation great—indeed, exceedingly great—and Hagar opened her eyes and saw a well of water, so she went to it,” and so forth until the end of the passage. Elsewhere it is stated about Ishmael: “He shall place his hand over the hands of all.” It is unanimously known—by universal consensus and by transmitted reports—that Ishmael was reared in the land of Mecca.