With-Love-to-Muhammad

َّ
ْ
Nothing has remained of Prophethood except Mubashirāt 133
This means that they reacted with sadness and shock and
perhaps wondered why all kinds of prophethood, including the
prophethood of the Holy Prophet sa , have ended. While the
companions ra were in a state of shock, they were mollified to
some extent when he completed his statement by adding the
clarifying clause, “ ر ُ ات َ بْاa ّ
ِ ”, meaning that mubashirāt or glad ٰ نِ‏
tidings remain. This indicated that prophethood had not ended
absolutely or in totality. Its essence remains in the ummah.
In other words, this statement was made in a specific
context and time. He made this statement about his type of
prophethood keeping in view his death, which was near.
Correspondingly, leading scholars of Islām have made this
interpretation as well. Allāma Ibn Hajar, one of the greatest
scholars of hadīth, writes:
دa ْ َبa
َّ مaaا ْ َ ِ
ِ
َ
aو ُ ْ خت
‏ُّبُوَّ‏
‏ِۃa دِ‏
ۃaبaِ‎اِ‏ َّ لا
َ اْ‏َ‏ aَ‏َمْ‏ ْ
‏ُو َّ تہaو
‏ُب
َ ا َ ْ ُ رادa a‏َبْقَ‏
بَ‎‏ّ‏ ُْ اa
ا
اْ
‏ُّبُوَّ‏
ا ‏ِۃa
ِ رَ‏ ات
The implication of the [definite article] ‏”ال“‏ in the
word ۃ ابو [an-nubuwwah] refers specifically to the
prophethood of the Holy Prophet sa [not to
prophethood in general] and the meaning is:
“nothing remains from prophethood specific to
myself except mubashirāt”. 130
Therefore, it refers to his prophethood specifically, after which
only mubashirāt (glad tidings) have remained. Intellectually, this
was necessary for the time of the Holy Prophet sa when the scope
of revelation could not be expanded to a great extent because
130
Fath-ul-Bārī, Volume 16, Page 464, under the Hadīth in Sahīh Bukhārī,
Kitab-ut-Ta‘bīr, Bāb: Al-Mubashirāt