Originally Published:11/02/2011
The Whole Universe was Created for
The Holy Prophet
MUHAMMAD
صلى الله عليه و آله وسلم
The Prophet (Allah Bless him and grant him peace) said on the authority of 'Umar(RA):
"When Adam committed his mistake he said:
O my Lord, I am asking you to forgive me for the sake of Muhammad.
Allah said: O Adam, and how do you know about Muhammad whom I have not yet created? Adam replied, O my Lord, after You created me with your hand and breathed into me of Your Spirit, I raised my head and saw written on the heights of the Throne:
O my Lord, I am asking you to forgive me for the sake of Muhammad.
Allah said: O Adam, and how do you know about Muhammad whom I have not yet created? Adam replied, O my Lord, after You created me with your hand and breathed into me of Your Spirit, I raised my head and saw written on the heights of the Throne:
LA ILAHA ILLALLAH MUHAMMADUN RASULULLAH
I understood that You would not place next to Your Name
but the Most Beloved One of Your creation.
I understood that You would not place next to Your Name
but the Most Beloved One of Your creation.
Allah said:
O Adam, I have forgiven you, and were it not for Muhammad I would not have created you."
It
was transmitted through many
chains and
was cited by:
Bayhaqi (in
Dala'il al-nubuwwa),
Abu
Nu'aym (in Dala'il al-nubuwwa),
al-Hakim in
al-Mustadrak (2:615),
al-Tabarani in
his Saghir (2:82, 207) with another chain
containing sub-narrators unknown to Haythami as
he stated in Majma' al-zawa'id (8:253), and Ibn 'Asakir on
the authority of 'Umar ibn al-Khattab, and most of these
narrations were copied in Qastallani's al-Mawahib
al-laduniyya (and al-Zarqani's Commentary 2:62).
This
hadith is declared sound (sahih)
by al-Hakim in al-Mustadrak (2:651), although he
acknowledges Abd al-Rahman ibn Zayd ibn
Aslam, one of its sub-narrators, as weak.
However, when he mentions this hadith he says: "Its chain is sound, and it is the first hadith of Abd al-Rahman ibn Zayd ibn Aslam which I mention in this book";
al-Hakim also declares sound another version through Ibn 'Abbas.
al-Bulqini declares
this hadith sound in his
Fatawa.
al-Subki
confirms al-Hakim's authentication (in Shifa' al-siqam fi
ziyarat khayr al-anam p. 134-135).
The
hadith is also included by Qadi 'Iyad among
the "sound and
famous narrations" in al-Shifa, and he says
that Abu Muhammad al-Makki and Abu al-Layth
al-Samarqandi mention it; Qadi 'Iyad says:
"It
is said that this hadith explains the verse: 'And
Adam received words from his Lord and He relented towards
him' (2:37)"; he continues to cite another very
similar version through al-Ajurri (d. 360), about
whom al-Qari said:
"al-Halabi
said: This seems to be the Imam and guide Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn
al-Husayn ibn 'Abd Allah al-Baghdadi, the compiler of the books
al-Shari'a devoted to the Sunna, al-Arba'un, and others.'"
This
is confirmed by Ibn Taymiyya in
his Qa'ida
fi al-tawassul:
"It is related by Shaykh Abu Bakr al-Ajurri, in his book al-Shari'a
Ibn
al-Jawzi also considers
it sound (sahih)
as he cites it in the first chapter of al-Wafa
bi ahwal al-mustafa, in the
introduction of which he says: "(In this book) I
do not mix the sound hadith with the false,"
although he knew of 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Zayd's weakness as a narrator;
he also mentions the version of Maysarat
al-Fajr whereby
the Prophet (Allah
Bless him and grant him peace) says: "When
satan deceived Adam and Eve, they repented and sought intercession to
Allah with my name";
Imam
Ibn al-Jawzi also says in the chapter concerning the
Prophet's superiority over the other Prophets in the same book: "Part
of the exposition of his superiority to other Prophets is the fact
that Adam asked his Lord through the sanctity (hurmat) of Muhammad
that He relent towards him, as we have already mentioned."
Imam
Suyuti cites it in his Qur'anic commentary al-Durr
al-manthur (2:37) and in al-Khasa'is al-kubra (1:12) and in al-Riyad
al-aniqa fi sharh asma' khayr al-khaliqa (p. 49), where he says
that Bayhaqi considers it sound;
this is due to the fact that Bayhaqi said in the introduction to the
Dala'il that he only included sound narrations
in his book, although he also knew and explicitly mentions 'Abd
al-Rahman ibn Zayd's weakness;
Imam
Ibn Kathir mentions it after Bayhaqi in al-Bidayat wa
al-Nihaya (1:75, 1:180).
al-Haythami in
Majma' al-zawa'id (8:253 #28870), al-Bayhaqi
himself, and al-Qari in Sharh al- shifa' show that its chains have
weakness in them.
However, the weakness of
Abd al-Rahman ibn Zayd was known by Ibn al-Jawzi,
Subki, Bayhaqi, Hakim, and Abu Nu'aym, yet all these scholars
retained this hadith for consideration in their books.
--
→"Had it not been for the Prophet the world (heavens) would not
have been"
→“You have asked me by virtue of the Prophet to pardon you. Surely I
have pardoned you. Had it not been for the Prophet I would not have
created you.”
→ “Allah Most High said: ‘by My Might and Glory, had it not been
for you (Muhammad) I would not have created the heavens, and had it
not been for you (Muhammad) I would not have created the earth.’”
→“Allah Blessed and Most High revealed to ‘Isa (alayhis Salam):
‘believe in Muhammad and instruct those among your followers who
meet him to believe in him. Indeed, had it not been for Muhammad I
would not have created Adam, and had it not been for Muhammad I would
not have created the hellfire."
--
Sheikh
‘Abd al-Fattah also presents the argument that even if only
a single
weak hadith had
been transmitted on this topic it would still be acceptable in
establishing this virtue provided the hadith was not exceptionally
weak.
--
Abu
Talib al-Makki,
al-Tha’labi,
Fakhr
al-Din al-Razi,
al-Qadhi
Iyadh,
ibn
al-Jawzi,
ibn
Rajab,
ibn
Hajar al-Haytami,
Mulla
‘Ali al-Qari,
al-Suyuti,
al-Halabi,
al-Qastallani,
al-Khatib
al-Shirbini,
al-Alusi
--
Three
scholars reject it ?
Ibn Taymiyya (Qa'ida jalila fi al-tawassul p.
89, 168-170) and his two students Ibn
'Abd al-Hadi (al-Sarim al-munki p. 61-63)
and al-Dhahabi (Mizan
al-i'tidal 2:504 and Talkhis al-mustadrak),
while 'Asqalani reports Ibn
Hibban's saying that 'Abd
al-Rahman ibn Zayd was a forger (Lisan
al-mizan 3:360, 3:442).
It
is furthermore evident that Ibn Taymiyya considers the
meaning of the creation of everything for the sake of the
Prophet (Allah Bless him and grant him
peace) as true and correct, as
he declares in his Majmu'at
al-fatawa in the volume on
tasawwuf (11:95-97):
Muhammad
is the Chief of the Children of Adam, the Best of Creation, the
noblest of them in the sight of Allah. This is why some have said
that "Allah created the Universe due to him," or that "Were
it not for him, He would have neither created a Throne, nor a
Footstool, nor a heaven, earth, sun or moon."
However,
this is not a hadith on the authority of the Prophet... but it may be
explained from a correct aspect...
Since
the best of the righteous of the children of Adam is
Muhammad, creating
him was a desirable end of deep-seated purposeful wisdom, more
than for anyone else,
and hence the completion of creation and the
fulfilment of perfection was attained with Muhammad, may
Allah Exalted bless him and grant him peace...
The
Chief of the Children of Adam is Muhammad, may Allah Exalted
bless him and grant him peace, Adam and his children being under his
banner. He, may Allah Exalted bless him and grant him peace, said:
"Truly,
I was written as the Seal of the Prophets with Allah, when
Adam was going to-and-fro in his clay," i.e. that my prophethood
was decreed and manifested when Adam was created but before the
breathing of the Spirit into him, just as Allah decrees the
livelihood, lifespan, deeds and misery or happiness of the slave when
He creates the embryo but before the breathing of the Spirit into it.
Since
man is the seal and last of all creation, and its microcosm,
and since
the best of man is thus the best of all creation absolutely, then
Muhammad, being the Pupil of the Eye, the Axis of the Mill, and the
Distributor to the Collective, is as it were the Ultimate Purpose
from amongst all the purposes of creation.
Thus
it cannot be denied to say that "Due to him all of this was
created", or that "Were it not for him, all this would not
have been created," so
if statements like this are thus explained according to what the Book
and the Sunna indicate, it is acceptable.
-
Its
latter part is mentioned as a separate hadith in the wording:
"Were
it not for Muhammad, I would not have created the
spheres (al-aflak)."
al-'Ajluni said
in Kashf al-khafa' (#2123):
"al-Saghani
(d.650) said it is forged. I
say: but its meaning is correct."
Similarly 'Ali
al-Qari said in al-Asrar al-marfu'a (#754-755):
"al-Saghani (in al-Ahadith al-mawdu'a p. 7) said: "It
is forged," however, its meaning is
sound (mi'nahu sahih), as
Daylami has
narrated on the authority of Ibn
'Abbas that
the Prophet said:
"Gabriel
came to me and said: O Muhammad! Were it not for you, Paradise would
not have been created, and were it not for you, the Fire would not
have been created."
And Ibn
'Asakir's narration has: And were
it not for you, the world would not have been created."
--
The Hadith of Maysara (ra) is the
following:
Narrated by Maysara (ra), I asked:
"O Messenger of Allah, when were you [first] a Prophet?" He replied: "When Allah created the earth ‘Then turned He to the
heaven, and fashioned it as seven heavens’(2:29), and created the Throne, He
wrote on the leg of the Throne: "Muhammad the Messenger of Allah is the
Seal of Prophets" (Muhammadun Rasûlullâhi Khâtamu al-Anbiyâ').
Then Allah created the Garden
in which He made Adam and Hawwa' dwell, and He wrote my name on the gates, its
tree-leaves, its domes and tents, at a time when Adam was still between the
spirit and the body. When Allah Most High instilled life into him he looked at
the Throne and saw my name, whereupon Allah informed him that 'He [Muhammad(s)] is the liege-lord of all your descendants.'
When Satan deceived
them both, they repented and sought intercession to Allah with my name." [Ibn Jawzi in Al Wafa bi Ahwaal lil
Mustafa, Page No. 26, Published by Dar ul Kutab al Ilmiyyah]
Imam Muhammad bin Yusuf al-Salihi (student of Imam al-Hafidh As-Suyuti) said:
This hadith is narrated by Ibn Jawzi and
the chain of it is “STRONG” and there is nothing wrong in it [Subul
al-Hadi wal Rashhad, Volume No.1, Page No. 86 – Dar ul Kutb al iLmiyyah]
Ibn Taymiyyah said:
فهذا الحديث يؤيد الذي قبله وهما كالتفسير للأحاديث الصحيحة
This hadith corresponds to the hadith mentioned before (i.e. hadith of Umar ibn ul Khattab) These two are like the explanations (tafsir) of the authentic (Sahih) ahadith [Majmua al Fatawa, 2/150]
Imam al Alawai al Makki said: This indicates that Ibn Taymiyya
found the hadith sound enough to be considered a witness for other narrations
(salih li al-istishhad wa al-i`tibar), because the forged (al-mawdu`) and
the false (al-batil) are not taken as witness by the people of hadith
--
Tabarānī, Bayhaqī, Ibn-ul-Mundhir and
Suyūtī narrated this tradition through ‘Umar
bin al-Khattāb and ‘Alī that the Holy Prophet
(صلى الله عليه وآله
وسلم)
said,
“Adam was just about to repent for his act of disobedience
that he suddenly recalled in his state of anxiety that he had seen lā ilāha
illallāhu Muhammad-ur-rasūlullāh (there is no god but Allah, Muhammad is
Allah’s Messenger) inscribed on the Throne at the time of his birth.”
It obviously meant that the distinction
the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم) possesses is denied to others. That is the
reason his name was inscribed along with Allah’s Own name. At this, he added
these words of intermediation to his prayer for divine forgiveness:
(O Allah,) I beg Your forgiveness through the mediation of Muhammad (صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم).The tradition related by Ibn-ul-Mundhir has the following words:
O Allah, I beg Your forgiveness through Your beloved and most honoured servant Muhammad and through his distinction You have blessed him with.
[Imam Suyuti cites in ad-Durr-ul-manthur, Volume:1,Page No. 60]
Following are
some of the hadiths of the mention of the Prophet's
name together
with Allah on the Throne and
in the heavens cited by the hadith masters, as related by Imam
Suyuti in al-Khasa'is
al-kubra (1:12-14)
In Ibn
'Asakir from Ka'b
al-Ahbar:
Adam
said to his son Sheeth: "O my son, you are my
successor, therefore found my Successorship upon Godwariness and the
Firm Rope, and every time you mention Allah,
do mention next to His
name the name of Muhammad, for
I saw his name written on the leg of the Throne as
I was between the spirit and the clay.
Then
I circumambulated the heavens and
I did not see in them a
single spot except the name of Muhammad was
written upon it, and when my Lord made me inhabit
Paradise I saw in it neither palace nor room
except the name of Muhammad was
written on it.
I
have seen his name written on the bosom of the wide-eyed maidens
of Paradise, on the leaves of the reed-stalks and thickets of the
Garden, on the leaves of the Tree of Bliss, on the leaves of
the Lote-tree of
the Farthermost Boundary, and upon the veils and between the eyes of
the angels. Therefore, make frequent remembrance of him, for the
angels remember him in every moment."
[…]
The
Lord said,
“Write:
la
ilaha illAllah, Muhammadan Rasulullah.”
Thereupon
the Pen exclaimed,
“Oh,
what a beautiful, great name is that of Muhammad that it is to
mentioned in one with Thy hallowed Name, oh Lord.”
The
Lord then said,
“Oh
Pen, mind your
manners!
This
name is the name of My Beloved, from his Light I
have created the Throne and the Pen and the Tablets; you, too, are
created from his Light. Had
it not been for him, I would not have created a single thing.”
---
Muhammedun
Rasûlullâh
inscribed
above the pillars of the Throne.
I
therefore thought that You would only mention
Your name with
the Most Beloved of Your creation.’
‘I forgive you,
Adam’, the Almighty declared,
‘and were it not for Muhammad صلى
الله عليه وسلم
I
surely would not have
created you.’” (Hâkim, II, 672)
Ibn 'Adi and Ibn 'Asakir from Anas:
The Prophet (Allah Bless him and grant him peace) said:
"When I was taken up to heaven I saw written on the leg of the Throne:
“la ilaha illallah Muhammadun Rasulullah”
al-Bazzar from Ibn 'Umar:
The Prophet (Allah Bless him and grant him peace) said:
"When I was taken up to heaven I did not pass a heaven except I saw in it my name written:
Muhammadun Rasulullah."
Ibn
'Asakir from Jabir:
The Prophet (Allah Bless him and grant
him peace) said:
"On
the gate of Paradise is written:
“la
ilaha illallah Muhammadun Rasulullah."
Abu
Nu'aym in al-Hilya from Ibn
'Abbas:
The Prophet(s) said: "There is not in all Paradise one tree with a single leaf but inscribed:
The Prophet(s) said: "There is not in all Paradise one tree with a single leaf but inscribed:
“la
ilaha illallah Muhammadun Rasulullah."
al-Hakim
from Ibn 'Abbas, and he graded it sahih (sound):
"Allah revealed
to 'Isa the following: Believe in Muhammad and order
all those of your Community who see him to believe in him, for were
it not for Muhammad I
would not have created Adam, nor Paradise, nor the
Fire. When I created the Throne upon the water it shuddered.
So I wrote upon it:
So I wrote upon it:
“la
ilaha illallah Muhammadun Rasulullah”
In Ibn
'Asakir from Jabir through Abu al-Zubayr:
"Between
Adam's shoulders is written:
“Muhammadun
Rasulullah khatam al-nabiyyin."
Indeed everything was created for the sake of Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) and this is also proven from Quran when Quran states:
Behold!
Allah took the covenant of
the Prophets, saying: "I
give you a Book and Wisdom; then
comes to you a Messenger, confirming what is with you; do ye
believe in him and render him help."
Allah said:
"Do ye agree, and
take this my Covenant as
binding on you?"
They
said: "We agree."
He said: "Then bear witness, and
I am with you among the witnesses." [The
Nobel Quran 3:81]
-
“DIFFERENT CHAIN”
* This proves that
even Prophethood of other Prophets and their books were
dependent upon Prophet
Muhammad (Peace
be upon him), hence It is proven
directly from Quran that
everything was created for the sake of Prophet
Muhammad (Peace
be upon him), therefore had Prophets not accepted Prophet
Muhammad (Peace
be upon him) then Allah would not have
become Witness over them and also not sent
them!
Another Sahih hadith
with
“DIFFERENT CHAIN”
Ibn
Abbas (ra) narrates that Allah
inspired Isa (a.s)
saying
"O
Isa, believe
in Muhammad (salallaho
alaihi wasalam), and whosoever form your Ummah finds him should
believe in him, If I had not created Muhammad (salallaho
alaihi wasalam) then I would not have created Adam, If
not for him I would not have created the paradise and hell, When
I made the throne on Water, it
started to shake, I wrote La
Ilaha IL Allah Muhammad ur Rasul Allah,
due to which it became still
[Imam
Hakim in Mustadrak ala Sahihayn, Volume No. 2, Page No. 609]
-
Imam
al-Hakim (rah)
after narrating it said:
هذا حديث
صحيح الإسناد
So there is no doubt left
behind that Allah created everything for the sake of Prophet (Peace be
upon him) and this is established from Quran, Sunnah and authentication of
classical scholars.
This Hadith has “SAHIH
CHAIN” [Mustadrak al-Hakim (2/609)]
---
Narrated
from Ibn Abbas,
Allah (SWT), inspired Isa (AS) to “Believe in Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم and command
those who live in his time from among your community to believe in him.
For
were it not for Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم,
I would not have created Adam; neither would
I have created
Paradise and Hell. When
I created the Throne (Arsh) on water, it started
rocking, coming to a standstill only after
I wrote over it Lâ ilâhe illâllâh
Muhammedun Rasûlullâh”. (Hâkim, II, 672)
“Allah
or
“Were it not for
him, He would have neither created a
Throne, nor a
Footstool, nor a heaven, earth, sun or moon.”
--
Ibn Taymiyya explains
(Majmu’ 11:95):
(Majmu’ 11:95):
"These are fabricated report attributed to the Prophet [s], but the
meaning is sound if understood and used correctly (as has been the practice
of the scholars)."
ويمكن أن يفسر بوجه صحيح
كقوله. (سخر لكم ما في السماوات وما في الأرض)
وقوله: (وسخر لكم الفلك
لتجري في البحر بأمره وسخر لكم الأنهار وسخر لكم
الشمس والقمر دائبين وسخر
لكم الليل والنهار وآتاكم من كل ما سألتموه وإن تعدوا
نعمة الله لا تحصوها) وأمثال
ذلك من الآيات التي يبين فيها أنه خلق المخلوقات لبني آدم
ومعلوم أن لله فيها حكما
عظيمة غير ذلك [ص: 97 ] وأعظم من ذلك ولكن يبين لبني آدم ما
فيها من المنفعة وما أسبغ
عليهم من النعمة.
فإذا قيل: فعل كذا لكذا لم
يقتض أن لا يكون فيه حكمة أخرى. وكذلك قول القائل: لولا
كذا ما خلق كذا لا يقتضي أن
لا يكون فيه حكم أخرى عظيمة بل يقتضي إذا كان أفضل
صالحي بني آدم محمد وكانت
خلقته غاية مطلوبة وحكمة بالغة مقصودة [أعظم] من غيره
صار تمام الخلق ونهاية
الكمال حصل بمحمد صلى اله عليه وسلم.
والله خلق السموات والأرض
وما بينهما في ستة أيام وكان آخر الخلق يوم الجمعة وفيه خلق
آدم وهو آخر ما خلق خلق يوم
الجمعة بعد العصر في آخر يوم الجمعة. وسيد ولد آدم هو
محمد صلى اله عليه وسلم –
آدم فمن دونه تحت لوائه – قال صلى اله عليه وسلم (إني عند الله لمكتوب خاتم
النبيين وإن
آدم لمنجدل في طينته) أي
كتبت نبوتي وأظهرت لما خلق آدم قبل نفخ الروح فيه كما
يكتب الله رزق العبد وأجله
وعمله وشقي أو سعيد إذا خلق الجنين قبل نفخ الروح فيه.
فإذا كان الإنسان هو خاتم المخلوقات
وآخرها [ص: 98 ] وهو الجامع لما فيها وفاضله هو فاضل
المخلوقات مطلقا ومحمد إنسان
هذا العين، وقطب هذه الرحى وأقسام هذا الجمع كان كأنها
غاية الغايات في المخلوقات
فما ينكر أن يقال: إنه لأجله خلقت جميعها وإنه لولاه لما خلقت
فإذا فسر هذا الكلام ونحوه
بما يدل عليه الكتاب والسنة قبل ذلك.
--
Hakim
in Mustadrak
and Abu as-Shaykh in Tabaqaat al-Isfahani’ in a report
from Sayyiduna
Abdullah ibn
Abbas (radiyallahu ta'ala anhuma) that:
“Allah revealed to Prophet ‘Isa ‘alaihis salam that:
“Allah revealed to Prophet ‘Isa ‘alaihis salam that:
O ‘Isa! Have faith (imaan) in Muhammad and
order your ummah to do the same.
If Muhammad was not in existence, I would not have created Adam nor would I have made heaven or hell”.
[Also from (Shaykh Taqi ad-Din Subki in Shifa as-Siqam and Shaykh al-Islam al-Bulqini in his Fatawa and ibn Hajar in Afdal al-Qur’an).]
If Muhammad was not in existence, I would not have created Adam nor would I have made heaven or hell”.
[Also from (Shaykh Taqi ad-Din Subki in Shifa as-Siqam and Shaykh al-Islam al-Bulqini in his Fatawa and ibn Hajar in Afdal al-Qur’an).]
Dailami
in Musnad al-Firdaus reports from
Sayyiduna
Abdullah ibn Abbas (radiyallahu
ta'ala anhuma) that:
“The
Prophet of Allah (sallallahu 'alaihi wasallam) said that Jibra’il
came to me and said that Allah says:
If you were not created, I would
not have made the heaven or hell”.
Ibn
Asakir reports from Salman al-Farsi (radiyallahu
ta'ala anhu) that:
“Jibra’il came
to the Prophet
of Allah (sallallahu
'alaihi wasallam) and said that Allah says:
I have not created
anyone who is more honoured to me that you.
I have created the world
and all that is therein so that they may know the rank that you
possess.
I would not have created the world if I
had not created you”.
Imam
Shihab ad-Din ibn Hajar ‘Asqalani says:
“These
reports say that if Muhammad (sallallahu 'alaihi wasallam)
were not created
then Allah would not have
made the skies nor the
Earth, neither heaven nor hell,
neither the sun nor the
moon”.
Imam
Saif ad-Din Abu Ja’far bin Umar al-Humairi al-Hanafi in
his
‘al-Durr
al-tanzeem fee mawlid al-nabi al-kareem’ says:
“When
Allah made Adam He revealed to Adam to ask Him:
O
Allah! Why have you made my kuniyah as ‘Abu Muhammad’?
Allah said: O
Adam! Lift you head.
He lifted his head and saw the Noor (light)
of the Prophet of Allah
(sallallahu 'alaihi wasallam) on the ‘Arsh.
Adam asked: O
Allah! Whose is this Noor?
Allah
said: It is a Prophet from
your progeny.
His name is Ahmad in
the skies and Muhammad on
the Earth.
If he were not created, I would not have created you
or the skies and the Earth”.
Sayyidi
Abul Husain Hamdooni Shadhili writes
in his Qasida
Daaliyah that:
“The dear Prophet (sallallahu 'alaihi wasallam) is the essence of the universe and is the reason for all creation. Had he not have been, then nothing would have come into existence”.
“The dear Prophet (sallallahu 'alaihi wasallam) is the essence of the universe and is the reason for all creation. Had he not have been, then nothing would have come into existence”.
Imam
Sharaf ad-Din Abu Abdullah Muhammad Busiri
writes
in his Qasida Burda that:
“If it was not for the Prophet of Allah (sallallahu 'alaihi wasallam) then the world would not exist”.
Imam Shaykh Ibrahim Baijuri writes in the commentary of Imam Busiri’s poem:
“If
the Prophet of Allah (sallallahu
'alaihi wasallam) had
remained non-existent,
then the universe would not have
come to be.
Allah said
to Adam: If Muhammad
had not existed,
I would not have created you. Adam
is the father of all men and whatever is in the Earth has been
created for man. So when Adam was created due to the existence of the
Prophet of Allah (sallallahu 'alaihi
wasallam), then it is obvious that
the whole world was created due to him.
Hence,
the Prophet of Allah (sallallahu 'alaihi wasallam) is
the cause and
the reason for all existence.
‘Allama
Khalid Azhari, commenting on the Burda, says:
“It is because of the Prophet of Allah (sallallahu 'alaihi wasallam) that the world was bought from non-existence to existence”.
“It is because of the Prophet of Allah (sallallahu 'alaihi wasallam) that the world was bought from non-existence to existence”.
Imam
Mulla Ali Qari writes:
“If
it were not for
the blessing and the generosity of the Prophet
of Allah (sallallahu
'alaihi wasallam), then the whole
world would not have
existed and apart from
Allah, nothing would Exist.
--
Hadith is
recorded in Musnad al-Firdaus on the
authority of ibn ‘Abbas who said
“Allah
Most High said: ‘by My Might and Glory, had it not been for you
(Muhammad) I would not have created the heavens, and had it not been
for you (Muhammad) I would not have created the earth.’”
Imam
Mulla ‘Ali al-Qari discusses this tradition in al-Asrar
al-Marfu’ah and points out that although the
tradition is fabricated the meaning is sound (1:295).
--
‘Allama
Abul Ayash Abdul Ali Lakhnawi writes
in his‘Fawatih
al-Rahmoot Sharh Musallam al-Thuboot’ that: “If the
Prophet of Allah (sallallahu
'alaihi wasallam)
were not in existence,
then the blessings of Allah would not have
blessed the creation”.
Only
an ignoramus will
argue against the authenticity of the subject matter, that is, that
the Prophet of Allah (sallallahu 'alaihi wasallam) is
the reason for creation.
It is due to him that Allah, the Almighty,
created the Universe.
Indeed
the Prophet of Allah (sallallahu 'alaihi wasallam) is
the reason for the creation of Adam ‘alaihis salam and
the universe.
If
the Beloved Prophet of Allah (sallallahu
'alaihi wasallam) was not in existence, then
the ‘Arsh and Kursi, Lawh and Qalam,
the Skies and
the Earth, Heaven and Hell,
the trees and stones and all other creatures would not exist.
And
while the lafdh in question is not considered an authentic wording from the Prophet (sallallahu
'alaihi wasallam), it is, as Mullah
al-Qari said,
"Though al-Saghanee says
this is mawdu even so I say
its meaning is saheeh (authentic)
even if it is not a hadith.”
Read
Majma` Fataawa Ibn Taymiyyah
الحديث: لولاك
Almighty
and Glorified - said to Adam:
"Were it
not for Muhammad I would not have created you."
Ibn
Rajab's two teachers, Ibn
Taymiyya and Ibn al-Qayyim agree:
Ibn
Taymiyya said in his Fatawa
al-Kubra (11:95-97):
"Muhammad
- Allah bless and greet him - is the Chief of the Children of Adam,
the Best of Creation, the noblest of them in the sight of Allah. This
is why some have said that "Allah created the Universe due to
him," or that "Were it not for him, He would have neither
created a Throne, nor a Footstool, nor a heaven, earth, sun or moon."
Ibn
Taymiyya on
"If not for
Muhammad I would not have
created you [Adam]"
Ibn
Taymiyya said
in his book:
"al-qaida
al-jaleela fit- tawwasali wal-waseela"
with
commentary of Dr. Rabi'a bin Hadi 'Umayr
al-Mudkhali, professor in the Islamic
University of Madinah al-Munawwara, on page
166, para 493:
"...and
like that is the hadith that is narrated by 'Abd ar-Rahman ibn Zayd
ibn Aslam from his father from his grandfather from 'Umar ibn
al-Khattaab (ra), marfu'an and mawqufan 'alayh, that
when Adam (as) has committed the sin, he said, 'O Lord! I ask you for
the sake of Muhammad [bi haqqi Muhammad] to forgive me.'
He subhanahu wa ta'ala said, 'How did you know Muhammad?' He
said, 'because when you created me with Your Hands and blew into me
from Your Spirit, I raised my head and I saw on the legs of Your
Throne written, 'laa ilaha ill-Allah Muhammadu Rasulullah' so I
knew You would not put next to your name except the one who is the
most beloved to You.' He said, 'you have said the truth, O Adam, and
if it were not for Muhammad, I would not have created you.'"
[law laa Muhammadan maa khalaqtuk].
And Ibn
Taymiyya continues:
"And
this hadith is narrated by al-Haakim in his Mustadrak, from the
hadith of 'Abdillah bin Muslim al-FiHree, from Isma'il bin Salama.
And Haakim said, 'and it is the first hadith I have mentioned from
'Abdur-Rahman in this book. And Haakim says that it is sahih.
And it is related by Shaykh Abu Bakr al-Aajuri, in the book
'ash-Shari'ah' mawqufan on 'Umar from hadith 'Abdillah bin
Isma'il bin Abi Maryam mawqufan from 'Abdur Rahman bin Zayd
bin Aslam."
And
we see here that Ibn Taymiyya is
here presenting a hadith that was verified and certified by
al-Haakim as authentic [sahih] and that
is the hadith which related from Allah that "If
not for Muhammad I would not have created you [O Adam]".
And this opposes the many objections to such hadith like the
similar hadith of Jaabir which is related
about Allah that he said, "law
laak maa khalaqtul khalq" - "If
not for you [O Muhammad] I would not have created any of the
Creation."
Ibn
Taymiyya now
goes into a lengthy discussion of the authenticity of the
hadith which
he just stated was authentic according
to al-Haakim.
He
attempts, through
various arguments and demonstrations by way of similar cases, that
this hadith is weak because al-Haakim
is not as strong as some other scholars.
Let
us examine here some of his arguments.
And
on page 172, para 506 Ibn
Taymiyya says, in support of his reasoning for weakening
the sahih hadith of al-Haakim:
"Muslim
has narrated that 'Allah has created soil on Saturday'. And some
people who have more knowledge than him disputed that, like Yahya ibn
Ma'een and Bukhari and others and they clarified that this was wrong
and it was not the words of the Prophet (saws). And the proof is with
them, because it has been proved by the Book and the Sunnah and the
Consensus [ijma'a] that Allahu ta'ala has created the heavens and
earth in six days and His last creation was Adam and his creation was
on Friday. And this hadith that has been disagreed upon indicates
that He created that in seven days. And it has been narrated a more
authentic isnaad than this that the beginning of creation was on
Sunday."
Regarding
Ibn Taymiyya's Statement regarding the hadith of Yahya bin Ma'een
It
is important to note that in the footnote on this paragraph, by Dr.
Rabi'a bin Hadi 'Umayr al-Mudkhali, professor in the Islamic
University of Madinah al-Munawwara, says, "I could not
find the words of Yahya bin Ma'een about this hadith after I
researched it."
The
professor gives another footnote about this, saying:
"al-Bukhari
in al-Taarikh al-Kabeer, 1/1/413/414, in the biography of Ayyub
ibn Khalid, 'and Isma'il ibn Ummayya narrated from Ayyub ibn Khalid
al-Ansaari from 'Abdullah ibn Raf'i from Abi Hurayrah (ra) from the
Prophet (saws) said, "khalaq-Allahu
at-turbata yawm as-sabt" - ["Allah created soil on
Saturday"]'. And some of them relate it from Abi Hurayrah from
Ka'b and that is more authentic"
Finally, Dr.
Rabi`a bin Hadi `Umayr al-Mudkhali gives a third
footnote, saying:
"I
did not find a hadith marfu` that is an exact quote that
the beginnning of creation was on Sunday. But there are aathar from
Ibn `Abbas, Ibn Mas`ud and `Abdullah ibn Sallaam that have been
mentioned by Ibn Jareer in his Tareekh, 1/47. And the athar of
Ibn `Abbas and Ibn Mas`ud, in it there is Isma'il ibn Abdur Rahman
as-Saddi, trustworthy? but he was accused of being Shi`i.
And
regarding the athar of Ibn Sallaam, in its isnad Abu
Ma`ashar, Najeeh bin Abdur Rahman as-Sindi is weak [da`eef] and in it
'Abdullah ibn Saalih. I did not know who he is, and I think he is the
writer of Layth, and if he is then he is weak [da`eef]...."
Here
we see that Ibn Taymiyya is building a
house of cards in order to prove that the hadith
of al-Haakim "law laa
Muhammadan maa khalaqtuk" is weak, through
a series of Byzantine arguments whose major foundation here is seen
to be without support. And this is to be seen in a major scholar to
be a tremendous weakness and serious indication of corruption, and
Allah knows best.
We
see here that Ibn Taymiyya states
that Muslim was wrong based on the fact that "those
more knowledgable than him" disputed it, starting
with Yahya bin Ma'een.
SURPISE
THOUGH IT MAY BE, we find that YAHYA BIN MA'EEN DID NOT SPEAK AGAINST
THIS HADITH AT ALL!!!
Ibn
Taymiyya then
tries to show that A
HADITH NARRATED BY Imam
Muslim was
rejected by other scholars, "more
knowledgeable than him"
and that the hadith
Muslim narrated
as sahih is
not so,
because Bukhari rejected
it.
We
THEN FIND that in fact, Bukhari NARRATED IT HIMSELF.
On
the contrary, the "hadith"
"that the beginning of creation was on
Sunday" which Ibn
Taymiyya tries to use to support his argument AGAINST the
hadith "Allah created soil on Saturday"
is in fact no hadith at all but is an athar with no
verifiable authenticity! And these are the words of
a Wahabi muhaqqiq!
Now
in a further footnote to this discussion of Ibn
Taymiyya, on the hadith of Muslim by the Professor
Rabi`a in which he says,
"It
was narrated by Muslim in the book 'description of hypocrites and the
laws relating to them'/chapter 'the beginning of Creation' hadith 27,
and Ahmad 2/327, and Ibn Ma'een in at-Tareekh, 3/52 and Bayhaqi
in 'al-'asma was-siffaat', page 364."
Here
again we see how Ibn Taymiyya was
using misleading arguments against Imam
Muslim.
Here
it is clearly related by Ibn
Ma`een, whereas Ibn
Taymiyya said,
"And
some people who have more knowledge than him disputed that, like
Yahya ibn Ma`een..."
Subhanallah!
How
much could a man have hated the
Prophet (s) so much to go to such deceitful lengths
to weaken a hadith which honors the Prophet (s)
so magnificently, and showing
that tawassul through
him is acceptable!!!
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Root of Creation
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The Best of Creation
The Beloved Prophet (صلى الله عليه و آله وسلم) is
Rahmatul lil Aalameen and Root of Creation in this cosmos.
Rahmatul lil Aalameen and Root of Creation in this cosmos.
The Nobel Quran
وَمَا أَرْسَلْنَاكَ إِلَّا رَحْمَةً لِّلْعَالَمِينَ
O’Prophet (صلى الله عليه و آله وسلم)
‘We have not sent you except for the Mercy upon all the worlds
‘We have not sent you except for the Mercy upon all the worlds
(Al-Anbiya – 107)
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For Heavens Sake:
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Shaykh `Abd al-Qadir Gilani (ra)
(d. 561AH) in his book,
Sirr al-asrar fi ma yahtaju ilayh al-abrar
page,12-14 of the Lahore edition) said:
“Know
that since Allah first created the soul of Muhammad sallallahu
`alayhi wa sallam from the light of His beauty, as He said: I
created Muhammad from the light of My Face, and
as the Prophet said: The
first thing Allah created is my soul, and the first thing Allah
created is the Pen, and the first thing Allah created is the
intellect — what is meant by all this is one and the same thing,
and that is the Haqiqa Muhammadiyya.
However, it
was named a light because it is completely
purified from darkness, as Allah said: There
has come to you from Allah a Light and a manifest Book.
It
was also named an intellect because it is the cause for the
transmission of knowledge, and the pen is its medium in the world of
letters.
The
Muhammadan soul (al-ruh al-muhammadiyya) is therefore the
quintessence of all created things and the first of them and their
origin, as the
Prophet(s) said:
I
am from Allah and the believers are
from me, and Allah created all souls from me in the spiritual
world and He did so in the best form. It is the name of the totality
of mankind in that primordial world, and after its creation by four
thousand years, Allah created the Throne from
the light of Muhammad himself sallallahu `alayhi wa
sallam, and from it the rest of creation.”
This
book has now been translated by Shaykh Tosun Bayrak
al-Jerrahi as The Secret of Secrets (Cambridge: Islamic Texts
Society, 1994).
Halabi (Ali
ibn Burhan al-Din, d. 1044) cites it as evidence in
his Sira (1:31 of the Maktaba Islamiyya edition in
Beirut) and then states: “It provides evidence that he is
the root of everything that exists (in creation) and Allah knows
best.”
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--
Anwar Shah Kashmiri (deobandi
akabir)
quoted the hadith of Jabir Ibn Abdillah
and stated that the Hadith of the Noor
of Rasulullah
salallahu'alayhi wasallam prevails
over the Hadith of Tirmidhi
(i.e about first creation of the
Pen).
[Malfudhaat
Al Kashmiri, 182]
--
Shafi’i
faqih
Sayyid Abu Bakr Shata
who said in his celebrated hashiyah on al-Mallibari’s Fath al-Mu’in:
‘he [Muhammad] is the asl of the origination of all created beings as Allah the Mighty, the Glorious Himself said ‘had it not been for you I would not have created the heavens’” (I’anat al-Talibin, 1:6).
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[ADHM]
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A
Star That's 200,000,000 Million
Years
Older than the Universe
Star= HD
140283 (Methuselah)
Age
of Star: 14.5,000,000,000 Years
Age of Universe: 13.8,000,000,000 Years
The current
measurement of the age of the universe is around 13.8 billion
years – 13.799±0.021 billion years
--
How
Can a Star Be Older Than the Universe?
By
David Crookes ,
All
About Space magazine October 16, 2019
Space
Mysteries: If the universe is 13.8 billion years old, how can a
star be more than 14 billion years old? [Read Here]
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A Narration comes to Mind:
The
Holy Prophet SallAllaho Alaihi wa Sallam once asked Hadrat Jibrael
Alaihis Salam,
“O
Jibrael ! How old are you?”
Jibrael
al-Ameen Alaihis Salam replied,
“O
Rasoolullah SallAllaho Alaihi wa Sallam, I don’t know how old I am,
but I do know that in the Fourth Covering (حجاب),
I saw a star shine once every 70,000 years, and I saw this 72,000
times.”
The
Holy Prophet SallAllaho Alaihi wa Sallam then said,
و
عزة ربي انا ذالك الكوكب
“By
the honour of Allah SubHanuhu wa Ta’ala! I was that star.”
[Tafseer
Rooh al-Bayaan, Vol. 1, Page 974]
--
This
narration is found without chain or
sourcing in Shaykh Isma`il Haqqi’s Sufi Tafsir Ruh
al-Bayan for Surat al-Tawba verse 9:128, and in the
Sira Halabiyya (1351H Azhariyya edition with Dahlan
Sira in the margin 1:36) where the author says he saw it in a
book whose author he does not recall, entitled al-Tashrifaat
fil-Khasa’is wal-Mu`jizaat.
The
Moroccan hadith scholar Shaykh `Abd Allah al-Ghumari in his
Murshid al-Haa’ir declares it a forgery.
However,
the veracity of its meaning is supported by several Qur’anic verses
and hadiths,
such as:
The
Verse of Light (24:35)
where the two earliest Tafsirs
—
among others — concur that the “Shimmering
Star”
(kawkabun
durriyyun)
refers to the Prophet
(upon him blessings and peace) cf. Tafsirs
of Muqatil
and
al-Tabari.
{and
I am the first of those who surrender}
(6:163).
Ruzbahan
Baqli (d.
606/1210) said of this verse in his Tafsir:
“It is an indication of the primacy (taqaddum)
of his spirit and his substance over everything else and everyone
else in existence in the Divine Presence.”
Al-Qurtubi
said
in his Tafsir:
“{and
I am the first of those who surrender}
because there is no one who is first other than Muhammad—upon him
blessings and peace. If someone asks: Are not Ibrahim and the
Prophets before him? We reply that he comes first before them because
of his primacy in creation over them.”
“I
was the first of the Prophets to be created and the last one to be
sent.”
Narrated from
Abu Hurayra
by Tammam
al-Razi
in his Fawa’id
(4:207
§1399); al-Tabarani
in Musnad
al-Shamiyyin
(4:34-35 §2662); and Abu
Nu`aym in
Dala’il
al-Nubuwwa
(p. 42 §3); also narrated mursal
from Qatada
by al-Tabari
in his Tafsir
(sub 33:7) and with the wording “the
first of the people”
by
Ibn Sa`d in
his Tabaqat
(1:124).
{And
when We exacted a covenant from the Prophets, and from you (O
Muhammad) and from Nuh and Ibrahim and Musa and `Isa son of Maryam.
We took from them a solemn covenant}
(33:7).
Al-Qurtubi
said:
“Qatada
said
that the Prophet
(upon him blessings and peace) said: ‘I
was the first of the Prophets to be created and the last one to be
sent;’ and this is the reason he was mentioned first in this verse
before Nuh and others.”
The
Prophet (upon him blessings and peace) himself gave the above
explanation by pronouncing the above hadith after reciting verse
33:7. Then he added: “Thus
the sequence began with me ahead of them” (Ibn
Abi Hatim, Tafsir 10:3116,
sub Q 33:7)
And
Allah knows best.
Shaykh Hajj
Gibril Haddad
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