La Nabi ya Baadi [No Prophet after me]

 

I have read a hadith related to Hazrat Aisha Siddiqa (Razi Allahu Anha) that she said "o people! call The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) Khatam Al Nabiyin [the seal of the prophets], but do not say that no Prophet will come after him" (Tafsir Dur-e-Manshoor)

Wa `alaykum as-Salam,

This is narrated by Ibn Abi Shayba in his Musannaf with a broken chain between `A'isha and the narrator that reports it from her, with up to three missing links.

The report that says: "No Prophet will come after me" is mass-transmitted (mutawatir).

Ibn Abi Shayba also narrates with a somewhat weak chain that al-Mughira ibn Shu`ba said: "It is enough to say 'Khatam al-Anbiya' for it was narrated to us that `Isa, upon him peace, would come out, so if he comes out, he would be both before and after him."

So these reports are meant as a reminder that the descent of `Isa, upon him peace, at the end of time is established, not that there will be any another Prophet after the Prophet, upon him peace, since `Isa will be a follower of the Shari`a and not of his own dispensation nor of the Mosaic Law which he followed in his own time. And Allah knows best.

Hajj Gibril