The seal of the Prophets (Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace)
The Messenger Muhammad - may God bless him and grant him peace - has been the seal of the prophets and messengers for 1442 years, and there will be no messenger or prophet after him until the Day of Resurrection, Here are the evidence from the Qur’an and Sunnah... Let us begin, with God’s blessing - the Almighty -
The linguistic meanings of the Seal
The seal: a notch on the back of the neck
The seal of everything: the last
The last of the prophets, Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, is the seal of the prophets
The Seal of the Kingdom: It is an example of preciousness and honor.
He concluded his work: he completed it, completed it, finished it, reached its end
Seal with red wax: seal tightly
White stamp
A blank seal: He gave absolute authority
First: The Holy Qur’an
Allah says
(مَّا كَانَ مُحَمَّدٌ أَبَا أَحَدٍ مِّن رِّجَالِكُمْ، وَلَكِن رَّسُولَ اللَّهِ وَخَاتَمَ النَّبِيِّينَ وَكَانَ اللَّهُ بِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ عَلِيماً)، «سورة الأحزاب: الآية 40»
(Muhammad was not the father of any of your men, but the Messenger of God and the Seal of the Prophets and God is Ever-Knowing of all things.” (Surat Al-Ahzab: Verse 40)
Allah says
وَمَا مُحَمَّدٌ إِلَّا رَسُولٌ قَدْ خَلَتْ مِنْ قَبْلِهِ الرُّسُلُ ۚ أَفَإِنْ مَاتَ أَوْ قُتِلَ انْقَلَبْتُمْ عَلَىٰ أَعْقَابِكُمْ ۚ وَمَنْ يَنْقَلِبْ عَلَىٰ عَقِبَيْهِ فَلَنْ يَضُرَّ اللَّهَ شَيْئًا ۗ وَسَيَجْزِي اللَّهُ الشَّاكِرِينَ
Muhammad is nothing but a messenger; messengers have passed away before him, If he dies or killed, you turn on your heels, nothing will harm God, and God will reward those who are thankful.
There are implications in the verse
1- Muhammad, despite his high status before his Lord, is just a human being and a messenger like the messengers who came before him.
- It is necessary to remain steadfast in the religion after death or even not seeing it, Like our situation now, and the generations before us and the generations after us, he is considered unseen for us, just as God - the Almighty - Like the angels, we are commanded to believe in the unseen.
3 - Steadfastness in religion despite the vicissitudes of individual life. Each one of us has a form of gratitude to God, and God will reward those who are thankful.
Allah says
﴿ وَإِذْ أَخَذْنَا مِنَ النَّبِيِّينَ مِيثَاقَهُمْ وَمِنكَ وَمِن نُّوحٍ وَإِبْرَاهِيمَ وَمُوسَىٰ وَعِيسَى ابْنِ مَرْيَمَ ۖ وَأَخَذْنَا مِنْهُم مِّيثَاقًا غَلِيظًا﴾
And when We took from the prophets their covenant, and from you and from Noah, and Abraham, and Moses, and Jesus, son of Mary, and We took from them a solemn covenant.
Second: The noble hadiths
The hadith of intercession
On the authority of Ibn Abbas, may God be pleased with him, in the hadith of intercession on the Day of Resurrection, It is a long hadith, in which the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, mentioned people asking for intercession from the prophets, one after the other, to intercede with God - the Almighty - in the reckoning between the people, due to their long standing without being judged until the people reach Jesus - peace be upon him - Say to them: What do you think if there was something in a container with a seal on it, would he be able to remove what was in the container until he removed the seal, They say: No. He says: Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, is the seal of the prophets.
Hadith of Abu Hurairah
I was sent to all of creation, and prophethood was sealed with me
Including the hadith of Abdullah bin Amr
Where he said: The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, came out against us One day he was like saying goodbye and said: “I am Muhammad, the unlettered Prophet - three times - and there is no prophet after me
On the authority of Ibn Abbas, may God be pleased with him, he said
The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, revealed the curtain and the people were in rows behind Abu Bakr, may God be pleased with him, and he said: “O people, nothing remains of the glad tidings of prophethood except the good vision that a Muslim sees.
On the authority of Abu Hurairah, may God be pleased with him
The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: “Indeed, like me and the prophets before me, Like a man who built a house and made it beautiful, except for the place of a brick in a corner, So the people started going around it and marveling at it and saying: Would you please put the brick? He said: I am the building block and I am the Seal of the Prophets.)
On the authority of Muhammad bin Jubair bin Mutim, on the authority of his father, that the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, said:
I am Muhammad and I am Ahmed and I am the Eraser through whom disbelief is erased by him, I am the one who will gather people at my heels, I am the one who will end- and the One who will Aqab: after whom there is no prophet.
The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, says:
((I was favored over the prophets in six ways: I was given comprehensive words and I was supported by terror, and spoils were permissible to me and the earth has been made for me a place of worship and purification, I was sent to all of creation, and the prophets were sealed with me.
Anas bin Malik said that the Messenger of God said
“The message and prophethood have been cut off, and there is no messenger or prophet after me, He said: This was difficult for the people, so he said: “But bring good tidings.” They said: O Messenger of God, what are the good tidings? He said: “The vision of the Muslim man is part of the parts of prophecy.”
The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, warned us against those claiming to be prophets after him
On the authority of Jabir bin Samra, he said:
I heard the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, saying: There are liars at the hands of the Hour, so beware of them
On the authority of Abu Saeed Al-Khudri, may God be pleased with him, he said
The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: “The Hour will not come until thirty liars, men, come out, all of them lying about God Almighty and His Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace.
Ibn Kathir says
“God Almighty told in His Book and His Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace, in the Sunnah transmitted from him that there will be no prophet after him, so that they may know that everyone who claims this position, after him, he is a liar, a fool, a misguided charlatan.”
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