Q Surat al-Kahf 18:60-82, hereafter the Musa-Khidr pericope (MKP), is a qur’anic pericope that presents the edifying tale of Moses following an anonymous guide who teaches him about God’s providence. Modern historical-critical scholarship has suggested certain parallels that could have served as sources that influenced this pericope. In this paper I will summarize some of the previous scholarship regarding the stories suggested as potential precedents for the pericope. I believe the passage that Paret discovered in a late copy of John Moschus’ Leimon, serves as the closest template to the MKP. No doubt the MKP follows a pre-existing oral tradition common throughout the late antique Near East for telling pedagogical tales explaining God’s providence which makes it difficult to establish any clear intertexts that it relies upon, nevertheless, following up on some intriguing suggestions by Netton, I will attempt to show how Moses’ mysterious guide in the MKP evokes many characteristics of the archangel Raphael prevalent in literary motifs surrounding him that can be found in works of apocrypha, pseudepigrapha, and later Christian tradition. At the end of the paper I pose the question of why Raphael is not mentioned by name in the MKP if we accept that al-Khiḍr and Raphael are one and the same being.