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'''Jacob''' or '''Ya'qūb''' (Arabic: {{ia|یَعْقوب}}) or '''Israel''' was the son of the prophet [[Isaac]] and a grandson of the prophet [[Abraham]]. He is one of the [[prophets]] mentioned in the [[Qur'an]]. Shiite exegetes of the Qur'an take "Israel" to mean the servant of God, but according to the [[Torah]], Jacob (a) was called so because he struggled with an angel and won. In some Islamic sources, it is appealed to the story of [[Joseph]]'s (a) brothers asking Jacob (a) to intercede and ask God for their forgiveness in order to show the permissibility of [[tawassul]] to someone other than God. Some people have appealed to Jacob's (a) marrying two sisters at the same time to show the permissibility of such marriage before Islam. Jacob (a) died in [[Egypt]] at the age of 147, and according to his own will, his corpse was moved from Egypt and buried in the Cave of Machpelah in Hebron in [[Palestine]].