Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Hagar" in English language version.
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Hagar was a princess and daughter of Pharaoh, and not a slave girl. Even if it be supposed that Hagar was a slave girl, she could have only been the slave of Abraham (pbAh); and not of Sarah.
The Quran pays far greater attention than the Bible to the story of Abraham's 'conversion' [...], but then it passes directly to the patriarch's activities in Mecca. There is no mention of Hagar or Sarah, nor of the Bible's elaborate stories of the births of Ishmael and Isaac. It was left for the later Muslim tradition to spell out the details [...].
Toward the west of Kaaba there is a semi-circular short wall which faces Kaaba. It is called Ismail's Hajar. Hajar signifies lap or skirt. The semi lunar wall resembles a skirt.
Sarah, the wife of Ibrahim had a black maid (Ethiopian) called Hajar. She was extremely poor and humbled to the degree that Sarah did not object to her becoming a bed-mate of her husband, Ibrahim, in order to bear him a child. Here was a woman who was not honored enough to become a second wife to Ibrahim yet Allah connected the symbol of Hajar's skirt to His symbol, Kaaba.
