Hājar (Arabic: هَاجَر), known as Hagar in the Hebrew Bible, was the wife[1] of the patriarch and Islamic prophet Ibrahim (Abraham) and the mother of Ismā'īl (Ishmael).
I have made some of my offspring to dwell in an uncultivatable valley by Your Sacred House (the Kaaba ('Cube') at Mecca) in order, O our Lord, that they may perform As-Ṣalāt.
So fill some hearts among men with love towards them, and (O Allah) provide them with fruits so that they may give thanks' Qur'an, Ibraaheem 14:37 Because of the scarcity of water in the desert, it was not long before both mother and son suffered immense thirst.
Pakistani scholar Muhammad Ashraf Chheenah attributes the claim to Christian and Jewish sources and identifies her as the daughter of an Egyptian king who gifted her to Abraham.
[2]: 90–98 Hagar is honoured by Muslims as a wise, brave and pious woman as well as the believing mother of the Adnani Arab people.
Part of the pilgrimage is to run seven times between the hills, in commemoration of Hagar's courage and faith in God as she searched for water in the desert (which is believed to have then miraculously appeared from the Zamzam Well) and to symbolize the celebration of motherhood in Islam.