The Answerer

No, he did not as far as I know. Abraham was chosen to begin the Hebrew (Jewish) religion, and Jesus Christ, a Jew himself, began Christianity. Ishmail, Abraham’s son by his servant girl Hagar, went off to Egypt and married a girl there.

God said to Hagar (after a fight with her mistress Sarah) and Hagar had run away: “Return to your mistress and act as you should, for I will make you into a great nation. Yes you are pregnant and your baby will be a son,and you are to name him Ishmael (God hears), because God has heard your woes. This son of yours will be a wild one – free and untamed as a wild ass (donkey)! He will be against everyone, and everyone will feel the same towards him. But he will live near the rest of his kin.” (Genesis Chapter 16;verses 9 to 12).

So through Ishmael's descendants many years later, began the Islamic or Arab religion. The Bible does not say that God directed him to do so. Islam is the second biggest religion in the world. Hinduism, Buddism, Sikhism, and many others, I believe, were not created by God, but by men.