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“I am the Last Brick and I am the Last of the prophets” 141
brick and I am Khātam-un-Nabiyyīn’. (Sahīh
Bukhārī: Kitab al-Manāqib).
Based on this hadīth, 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 hadīth. Allāma Ibn Hajar al-‘Asqalānī [d.
852AH/1448CE] writes in his famous commentary of
Sahīh al-Bukhārī, Fath-ul-Bārī, Volume 6, Page 361,
“The completion of the palace means that the
Muhammadan sharī‘ah is more complete than
previous complete sharī‘ahs.” They have very
conveniently failed to mention this commentator and
his interpretation of the hadīth. He is not included in
their list of commentators. A commentator who is
included in their list is Allāma Ibn Khaldūn and,
about this hadīth, he is noted to have said, “People
interpret Khātam-un-Nabiyyīn to mean the brick that
completed the palace. However, it means that the
prophet with whose advent prophethood was
perfected has come.” (Muqaddima IbnKhaldūn, Page
271). Here again, the term Khātam-un-Nabiyyīn has
been taken to mean the prophet in whom