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236 With Love to Muhammad sa the Khātam-un-Nabiyyīn
Some Mu‘tazillah, and those who agree with them,
have denied the veracity of those events by claiming
that they are negated by the fact that Muhammad is
the Last Prophet, something which the entire ummah
of Muslims agree upon and to which there is ample
evidence in the Qur’ān and Sunnah, as in Allāh’s
saying that he is the Khātam Al-Nabiyyīn, and the
Hadīth in which the Messenger of Allāh sa said,
“There will be no Prophet after me”. But this is a
corrupt deduction. The descent of Jesus does not
mean that he will bring with him a new Message
and Law that will annul our sharī‘ah, which all
Muslims agree is the final Law valid until the Day of
Judgment. Nothing to this effect is found in the
Ahadeeth or anywhere else. Indeed, the Ahadeeth tell
us that Jesus will come on earth to rule justly by the
sharī‘ah of Islām, reviving its aspects which have
been neglected by the people. 227
In the above quotation, Hazrat Ibn Taymiyya interprets the
words, “There will be no prophet after me,” exactly how the
Ahmadī Muslims do. He says that this statement only means
that the latter day Messiah will be a subordinate prophet
without a new message or a new law that abrogates the law of
the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa . Regarding the correct
personality – whether he is ‘Īsā as of the ‘Īsrāelites or another
person bearing spiritual resemblance with ‘Īsā as – Hazrat Imām
Ibn Taymiyya could not have decided that because he did not
see the way the prophecy was fulfilled. In fact, this is something
that none of the mujaddidīn could have decided because this
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He quotes from Sarh Al-Nawawī ‘alā Sahīh Muslim, Volume 18, Pages 75-76