Many Ayahs and the Ahadiths prove ‘Khatm-e-Nubuwwat’. Explain any three of these Ayahs and Ahadiths here.

Question No.3    Many Ayahs and the Ahadiths prove ‘Khatm-e-Nubuwwat’. Explain any three of these Ayahs and Ahadiths here.

Answer:    Ayahs concerning Khatm-e-Nubuwwat

1-     (Saf: 9)

 “It is He SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam who has sent His Messenger with the guidance and the religion of truth, that He may uplift it above every religion.”

Note:           The only way to be higher than other religions is only through the fact that God has made it obligatory to believe in the ‘revelation’ and Prophethood of Hazrat Muhammad SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam and believing in the revelations and Prophethood of other Prophets is subordinate to it, and it was possible only if the apostleship of Hazrat Muhammad SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam should be the last one and believing in Hazrat Muhammad SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam should also include believing in all the previous prophets. Suppose, if there had been any other prophet after Hazrat Muhammad SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam, it would have been obligatory to believe in him. In this case believing in the Revelation and Prophethood of Hazrat Muhammad SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam would have been subdued. Moreover, in spite of having faith in the Prophethood of Hazrat Muhammad SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam if a person does not believe in this new Prophet (after Hazrat Muhammad SAW) he would be considered an infidel. This new Prophet will be the Prophet of the time and not Hazrat Muhammad SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam (May God forgive)

2-

(Al-Imran: 81)

“And when God took compact with the Prophets: ‘That I have given you of Book and Wisdom; then there shall come to you a ‘Messenger’ confirming what is with you – you shall believe in Him and you shall help Him.”

The Ayah explains clearly that Annunication of the Holy Prophet SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam will be the last one. In the Ayah two words are worsh-noting- “          “and “          “. The first word reveals that a promise has been taken by all the Prophets concerning Hazrat Muhammad SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam. The second word, ‘      ‘ is used when there is a thing that will happen later and there is distance of time between a particular time and the time of the occurring of the thing that will happen in future. It means that the Annunication of Hazrat Muhammad SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam will the last of all the Prophets and that will be after some internal that is why the age before Hazrat Muhammad SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam is called ‘Fatarat’:

3 –               “We have sent you not, except to the entire mankind, good tidings to bear and warning” (Saba : 28)

4 –              “Say: ‘O mankind, I am the messenger of God to you all”

(Aaraf : 158)

                    Both the Ayahs reveal that without any exception Hazrat Muhammad SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam has been sent to the whole mankind, as He SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam himself says:

(Kinzul Amal v.11 p.404. Hadith No.31885. Kharaise Kubra p.88 v.2)

“I am God’s messenger for him to whom I find in my life and for him also who is born after me”

Therefore, these Ayahs show that there cannot be any other Prophet after Hazrat Muhammad SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam and that till dooms Day He SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam is the Prophet of the time. Had there been any other Prophet after Hazrat Muhammad SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam, it would have been obligatory to have faith in his revelation and to consider him a God-sent messenger, otherwise salvation would not have been possible (May God forgive)

5-                         (Sure Ambia : 107)

                    “We have not sent you, save as a mercy unto all beings”

Note:           It means that to have faith in Hazrat Muhammad SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam is enough for everyone’s salvation so, if there had been another Prophet after Him SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam it would have been obligatory for his ummah to have faith in the new Prophet’s revelation and Prophethood, with this faith the salvation would have been impossible. But all this is contradictory to ‘mercy for all beings’, because in this case Hazrat Muhammad SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam does not remain the prophet of the time. (May God forgive)

6 –

(Sura Maida: 3)

          “Today I have perfected your religion for you, and I have completed my blessing upon you, and I have approved Islam for your religion”

Note:          Every Prophet brought religious commandments keeping in with his age, before Hazrat Muhammad SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam, the situation and demands of time were changing rapidly. That is why all the Prophets gave good tidings of the coming Prophet, till the appearance of Hazrat Muhammad SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam. The religion was completed with the Revelation. So, believing in the revelation and Prophethood of Hazrat Muhammad SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam includes also belief in all the previous Prophets. That is why it has been said, “I have completed my blessing upon you”. So there cannot be any other Prophet, nor there can be Revelation. That is why a Jew said to Hazrat Umar (Razi Allah-o-Anho) that “If this Ayah (verse) had been revealed on us, we would have declared the day as Eid day.” (Al-Bukhari). The Holy Prophet SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam remained alive for 81 days after the revelation of this Ayah (Maurifal Quran p.41 v.3) and during this time nothing was revealed concerning ‘Halal’ and ‘Haram’ (lawful and unlawful) He SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam is the last Prophet and the book revealed to him SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam is the complete and last one.

^7-(Al-Nisa : 136)

O believers, believe in God and His Messenger and the Book He has sent down on His Messenger and the Books which He sent down before”

Note:          This Ayah proves explicitly that we have been ordered to believe in the Prophethood and revelation of Hazrat Muhammad SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam and the revelation and Prophethood of all the other Prophets before him SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam. If there had been another Prophet after Him SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam, it would have been obligatory to believe in him. So, there cannot be another Prophet after him.

8-

(Sura Baqara 4-5)

          “Who believe in what has been sent down to you and what has been sent down before you, and have faith in the hereafter; those are upon guidance from their Lord and those are the ones who prosper”.

9- 

(Sura Nisa : 162)

          “But those among them who are well-grounded in knowledge, and the believers, believe in what has been revealed to you and what was revealed before you”

Note: Both the Ayahs and dozens of such Ayahs in the Holy Quran reveal clearly that we have been ordered to have faith in the revelations on and Prophethood of Hazrat Muhammad SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam along with faith in the revelation and Prophethood of the Prophets who appeared before Hazrat Muhammad SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam and in these commandments there is no reference of any future prophet.

10 –      (Sura Hijer : 9)

                    “It is We Who have sent down the remembrance, and We watch over it”

Note:          In this Ayah God has promised. He Himself would take care of the Holy Quran. No one can make addition and deletion of even a single dot in the Holy Quran till the day of Judgment. In the same way all the commandments will hold and there will be no ‘Shariah’ (religious law) that cancel it. In short, the promise of the safety of the words and meaning of Quran has been made. It proves that there will not be any Prophet after him SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam.

Note:          These Ayahs that prove ‘Khatm-e-Nubuwwat’ have been presented as a proof, otherwise there are hundred such Ayahs that prove ‘Khatm-e-Nubuwwat’. For more detail can be seen “Khatm-e-Nubuwwat Kamil” by Hazrat Maulana Mufti Muhammad Shafi (Rahmatullah Alaih).

The Hadith concerning Khatm-e-Nubuwwat.

Hadith No.1:  

(Sahih Bukhari: Kitabal Munaqeb p.501 v.1) (Sahih Muslim p.248 v.2)

“Hazrat Abu Hurairah (Allah be pleased with him) relates that Hazrat Muhammad SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam said”

“The example of me and the example of Prophets earlier those me is like the example of a most beautiful palace constructed by a man. The man left the blank space for a brick in one of its corners. People went around it and were surprised to look at its matchless beauty and exclaimed that why the brick was not inlaid in there. The Prophet SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam said: “I am that (cornor’s last) brick and I am the last of the Prophets”

Hadith No.2:

“Hazrat Abu Hurairah (Razi Allah-o-Anho) relates that Hazrat Muhammad SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam said: I have been given the honour of excellence over other Prophets in six matters: (1) I have been bestowed with comprehensive wards: (2) I have been supported through awe; (3) booty has been made lawful for me; (4) the whole earth has been made a mosque and a means of purification for me; (5) I have been sent as a Prophet for the whole humanity; (6) the chain of Prophets has come to an end with me.”

Hadith No.3:

(Sahih Bukhari, p.633, v.2)

Hadith              (Sahih Musilm, P.278,V.2)

“Hazrat Saad bin Abi Waqas (Razi Allah-o-Anho) relates that Hazrat Muhammad SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam said to Hazrat Ali (Razi Allah-o-Anho) ‘you have the same relation with me as Haroon Alaih-i-Salam had with Moses (Peace Be Upon Him), (but the difference is that) there will be no Prophet after me” and there is a tradition in Muslim which says “there is no Prophethood after me”

Hazrat Shah Waliullah (Rahmatullah Alaih) writes in his “Azalatel Khafa that:

                    “One of the ‘Matwater’ Hadith (the Hadith that is transmitted by an unbroken chain of reliable narrators) says that the Prophet SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam said to Hazrat Ali (Razi Allah-o-Anho) “you had the same relation with me as Haroon Alaih-i-Salam had with Moses Alaih-i-Salam.                                                   ( Azalatul Khafa, v.5,p.444)

Hadith No.4:

(Sahih Bukhari, v.1, p.491)(Sahih Muslim, v.2, p.126)(Masnad, v.2, p.297).

“Abu Hurairah (Razi Allah-o-Anho) relates that Hazrat Muhammad SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam said that Prophets themselves led Bani Israel. After the death of a Prophet, another Prophet took his place. But there shall be no prophet after me. However, there shall be Prophets and they shall many”

Note:           ;Gher Tashreei Prophets (Prophets without a new ‘Shariat’) were sent down that revised the Shariat of Moses Alaih-i-Salam, but there are no such Prophets after Hazrat Muhammad SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam.

Hadith No.5:

(Abu Dawood, v.2, p.127)(Tirmizi v.2, p.45)

“Hazrat Thauban (Razi Allah-o-Anho) relates that Hazrat Muhammad SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam said, ‘there shall appear 30 liars in my Ummah. Each one of them will say that he is a prophet. The fact is that I am the last of all the Prophets. There shall be no Prophet of any kind after me.’”

Hadith No.6:

(Tirmizi, v.2, p.51)(Masnad, v.3, p.267)

“Hazrat Ans (Razi Allah-o-Anho) relates that Hazrat Muhammad SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam said: ‘Risalat’ and ‘Nubuwwat’ have been terminated; so, there shall be no ‘Rasool nor a ‘Nabi’ after me.”

Hadith No.7:

 (Sahih Bukhari, v.1, p.120)(Sahih Muslim, v.1, p.282)

“Hazrat Abu Hurairah (Razi Allah-o-Anho) relates that Hazrat Muhammad SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam said: ‘We are the last (Ummah) but will precede all on the day of Judgment. The difference is that the Book was given to them before us.”

Hadith No.8:

(Tirmizi, v.2, p.209)

“Uqba bin Aamir (Razi Allah-o-Anho) relates that Allah’s messenger SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam said, ‘if there could ever be a Prophet after me, Umar bin Khatab (Razi Allah-o-Anho) would have been such’”

Hadith No.9: 

(Mishqat, p.515)

“Hazrat Jubair bin Mutam (Razi Allah-o-Anho) says that the Prophet SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam said, ‘certainly there are some names for me; I am Muhammad, I am Ahmad, I am Mahi, the obliterator as God shall blot out infidelity through me, and I am ‘Hashir’, the gatherer of people who shall be resurrected at my feet and I am Aaqib, the last to come as there shall be no Prophet after me.”

In this Hadith there are two wards that prove his SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam being the last Prophet. One is ‘Al-Hashir’ (gatherer of people). Hafiz Ibn Hair writes:

(Fathul Bari, v.6, p.557)

“This is a reference towards the fact that there shall be neither any Prophet nor any ‘Shariat’ after him SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam. So, when there is no Ummah after his Ummah, and no Prophet after Him, therefore, resurrection has been related to Him and resurrection shall certainly be held after his arrival.”

          The Prophet SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam second name is Al Aaqib (the last to come). The word is explained in the Hadith itself (no Prophet after Him SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam.

Hadith No.10:                   (Muslim, v.2, p.406)

“I and resurrection have been sent like these two fingers”

These ‘Ahadith’ reveal that the arrival of the Prophet SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam is a sign that the resurrection is near and that there shall be no Prophet till the resurrection. Imam Qartabi (Rahmatullah Alaih) writes:

(Al-Tazkirah fi Ahwal-ul-Mauta, p.711)

“And Hazrat Muhammad SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam says that ‘I and Resurrection have been sent like these two fingers’. It means that ‘I am the last Prophet and there shall be no Prophet after me; there is resurrection after me; just as the forefinger is next to the middle one with no finger between them….. similarly no Prophet shall come between me and the resurrection”

Allama Sindhi (Rahmatullah Alaih) writes in Hashia Nasai

(Hashiah Sindhi on Nasai: v.1, p.234)

“The simile brings out the fact that just as there is no finger in between the two, in the same way there is no Prophet in between Hazrat Muhammad SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam and the Resurrection.”

Consensus of Muslim opinion on Khatm-e-Nubuwwat.

Imam Ghazali (Rahmatullah Alaih) says in “Al Iqtasad” that:

(Al-Iqtasad Fe Al ataqad, p.123)

“Certainly there is consensus of Muslim opinion in the meaning of the work Khatam-un-Nabiyeen – that it means that neither there will be any Nabi (Prophet) nor any “Rasool” (Messenger) after Hazrat Muhammad SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam. There is consensus that there is no need of elucidation and reinterpretation of the word and the denier of this “Ijma (consensus) is in fact denier of Ijma.”

Hazrat Mulla Ali Qari (Rahmatullah Alaih) writes”

(Sharah Fiqqah Akbar, p.202)

“To claim Prophethood after Hazrat Muhammad SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam is infidelity by ‘Ijma’ (consensus of Muslim opinion)

Tawatur (having numerous chains of narrators) on Khatm-e-Nubuwwat

While explaining the Ayah Khatam-un-Nabiyeen Hafiz Ibn Kaseer writes:

(Tafseer Ibne Kaseer: v.3, p.493)

“There is ‘Ahadith Matwatra’ of the Holy Prophet SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam narrated by large number of Sahaba (Razi Allah-o-Anhum Wa Razu An) (The companions of Holy Prophet SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam)”

 Allama Syed Mehmood Aaloosi writes in Tafseer Roohul Maani:

(Roohul Maani, v.22, p.41)

“Holy Prophet’s SallAllah-o-Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wasallam being the ‘Khatam-un-Nabiyeen’ (the last of the Prophets) is a fact over which the Quran is positive and the Hadith has clarified them beyond doubt and on which there is consensus of Muslim opinion. So, the person who believes contrary to it will be declared an infidel; if he insists, he should be given capital punishment”

So it is clear now that the verses from the Holy Quran and the unbroken chain of ‘Matwater’ Ahadith prove ‘Khatm-e-Nubuwwat. Moreover, there has been consensus of Muslim opinion on it in every age.