With Love to Muhammad (sa) - The Khatam-un-Nabiyyin — Page 141
“I am the Last Brick and I am the Last of the prophets” 141 brick and I am Kh ā tam-un-Nabiyy ī n ’. (Sah ī h Bukh ā r ī : Kitab al-Man ā qib). Based on this had ī th , our opponents state that it has been unambiguously stated that there will be no more prophets of any kind. When the last ‘brick’ has been laid, it is all over. Yet, they have no problem with the second coming of Jesus as. This would mean that a brick from a lower level of the palace was taken out and sent up to the heavens to be brought back in the Latter Days! Let us see how some eminent scholars understand this had ī th. All ā ma Ibn Hajar al-‘Asqal ā n ī [d. 852AH/1448CE] writes in his famous commentary of Sah ī h al-Bukh ā r ī , Fath-ul-B ā r ī , Volume 6, Page 361, “The completion of the palace means that the Muhammadan shar ī ‘ah is more complete than previous complete shar ī ‘ahs. ” They have very conveniently failed to mention this commentator and his interpretation of the had ī th. He is not included in their list of commentators. A commentator who is included in their list is All ā ma Ibn Khald ū n and, about this had ī th , he is noted to have said, “People interpret Kh ā tam-un-Nabiyy ī n to mean the brick that completed the palace. However, it means that the prophet with whose advent prophethood was perfected has come. ” ( Muqaddima IbnKhald ū n , Page 271). Here again, the term Kh ā tam-un-Nabiyy ī n has been taken to mean the prophet in whom