And mention in the scripture Idrîs. He was a saint, a prophet.

Idris was a prophet of God. The Quran mentions him by name only twice, and both times it speaks of his character and his standing with God. It tells no story about him. It does not say which people he was sent to, when he lived, or what happened during his mission. What it does say is short but strong praise: "And mention in the scripture Idrîs. He was a saint, a prophet" (19:56), and "We raised him to an honorable rank" (19:57).
Because the Quran gives no events, his life cannot be told in order from scripture. Even his time is uncertain. The Quran Talk blog places Idris, along with Job, among the messengers whose timelines are unclear. It notes that some speculate he is the Biblical Enoch, which would put him before Noah. That is a guess from outside the Quran, not something the Quran says.
His second mention comes in Sura 21, in a list of prophets praised for their endurance: "Also, Ismail, Idrîs, Zal-Kifl; all were steadfast, patient" (21:85). God then says, "We admitted them into our mercy, for they were righteous" (21:86). So the two things the Quran singles out about Idris are that he was steadfast through hardship and that he was righteous. These are the reasons God gives for taking him into His mercy.
The lesson comes from the passage around him in Sura 19. Idris is named among "some of the prophets whom GOD blessed," chosen from the descendants of Adam, of those carried with Noah, and of Abraham and Israel. These are people who, "When the revelations of the Most Gracious are recited to them, they fall prostrate, weeping" (19:58). Right after them the Quran warns of later generations "who lost the Contact Prayers (Salat), and pursued their lusts" (19:59). It leaves the door open: "Only those who repent, believe, and lead a righteous life will enter Paradise" (19:60). Idris is held up as a model of devotion, and the generations that drift from that devotion are set against him.
The "honorable rank" in 19:57 is about honor and standing with God. The Sunni hadith tradition goes further and has the Prophet Muhammad meeting Idris in the heavens during the Ascension, but that account belongs to the tradition, not the Quran. Dr. Khalifa also named Idris among the prophets he said he met in his vision in Mecca in 1971, when, he said, the prophets declared their belief in him as the "Apostle of the Covenant" in fulfillment of 3:81.
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