The first Person in the world

Before God created Adam, He ordered the archangels to bring seven handful of soil from Earth, in different colors, hence the different skin colors. But the earth sought the refuge of God, thus the earth will not be distorted. Only Azrail succeeded, due to seeking the refuge of God, for he did not return with empty hands like the other archangels before. Azrail took dust from different parts of the earth, so that his children might have different skin colors.^[6][7] Hadith add that he was named Adam after the clay he was made out of, or the skin (dim)of the earth.

Returning to the Qu'ran, when God informed the angels that he was going to put a successor on Earth, they questioned whether the human would cause bloodshed and damage, but He told them that He knew what they know not^[8] and taught Adam the namesand commanded him to call them. When the angels failed to call the names Adam called out the names. When God called to prostrate to Adam they all obeyed, except Iblis. He said, "I am made from fire when Adam is made from clay. I am better than him. I am not going to prostrate before him." God created Adam from clay and breathed life into him.

A widely accepted, though not Qur'anic, narration in Islamic literature says that while Adam was sleeping, God took a rib from him and from it he created Eve; however, the exact method of creation is not specified.^[9] The Qur'an then says that God commanded Adam and Eve to not approach (come closer to) the one tree in the garden of Eden, but Iblis was able to convince them to do that. They then began to cover themselves because they now knew that they were naked.^[10] For this God banished Adam and Eve to earth; non-canonical Sunni hadith say that fruits were turned to thorns and pregnancy became dangerous. Non-canonical Sunni hadith also say that Adam and Eve were cast down far apart, so that they had to search for each other and eventually met each other at Mount Arafat.^[9]

In Islamic theology, it is not believed that Adam's sin is carried by all of his children.^[11]Hadith say that once Adam was on earth, God taught him how to plant seeds and bake bread. This was to become the way of all of Adam's children.^[12] Adam proceeded to live for about 1000 years, though this has been a topic of debate.^[12]