Islam's Genesis is pretty spare, in typical Qur'anic fashion (beginning at 2:29), emphasizing moral and spiritual themes, while mostly avoiding background information, like timelines or lineages. To an audience of angels assembled before Him, God announces, “I am creating a Caliph—on Earth.”
Then He makes and places Adam in a garden instead. (Weird thing #2.)
Before God even gets to Adam, though, the angels ask a very provocative and very unexpected question. “Will you place upon the Earth one who corrupts, and spills blood?” (This would be weird thing #1.)
