In the Qur’an, the name Alyasa appears only twice: in al-Anʿām (6:86) and Ṣād (38:48), he listed among the prophets, with no reference to episodes from his life. Qur’anic exegetes first differ over the very form and meaning of this word. Although the non-Arabic origin of the name has been evident to many, there have also been attempts to reconcile it with Arabic morphological rules. A more substantial disagreement, however, concerns identifying him with one of the prophets of the Old Testament; the views put forward in this regard amount to more than seven distinct theories. In his Hebrew translation of the Qur’an, Uri Rubin, in connection with another verse (Tawbah 9:40), points to shared narrative elements between this verse and an episode in the 2 Kings (6:15–16) concerning the prophet Elisha. This article expands Rubin’s observation and, on the one hand, sheds light on the historical identity of the prophet Alyasa, and on the other, strengthens the seventh exegetical view, namely the identification of the Qur’anic prophet Alyasa with the Elisha of the Old Testament.