Which prophet was swallowed by a large fish?

Which prophet was swallowed by a large fish? The answer is Yunus, known in the Bible as Jonah.

In Islamic tradition, Yunus was a prophet sent to warn the people of Nineveh. He became distressed when they rejected his message and left before receiving permission to do so. After boarding a ship, he was cast into the sea during a storm and swallowed by a great fish.

The Quran calls him Dhun-Nun, meaning “the One of the Fish,” and recounts his prayer from the darkness: he acknowledged God’s oneness and his own error. God accepted his repentance, and the fish released him onto the shore. The story emphasizes patience, repentance, and divine mercy.

A common mix-up is calling the creature specifically a whale. The Quran describes a great fish, while the Bible uses “large fish”; the exact species is not identified. Yunus is also the name of the Quran’s tenth surah, although the prophet appears there only briefly.