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layout: post
publisher: alsalafiyyah@icloud.com
title: "Are the Prophets also Messengers?"
hijri: "Safar 29, 1446"
source: "Majmu' Fatawa wa Rasa'il Vol.1/No.122"
lang: en
locale: en
date: 2024-09-02
category: [fatwas,prophets]
note: false
excerpt: "If Muhammad ﷺ was the last of the Prophets, then he (ﷺ) was also the last of the Messengers for there is no Messengership without Prophethood."
muftis:
  shaykh: 
    - name: Shaykh Ibn 'Uthaymeen
      url: /biography/uthaymeen/
---

### Question:
Are the Prophets mentioned in the saying of Allah, the Most High: **“Verily, We have inspired you (O Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him)) as We inspired Nooh…"**, Messengers or not? And who is the first Messenger?

### Answer:
The Prophets mentioned in the saying of Allaah, the Most High: **“Verily, We have inspired you (O Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him)) as We inspired Nuh (Noah) and the Prophets after him.”** [An-Nisa’ (4):163]

The ones who are mentioned in the context of the saying of Allah, the Most High, are all Messengers: **“Messengers as bearers of good news as well as of warning in order that mankind should have no plea against Allah after the Messengers.”** [An-Nisa’ (4):165]

And all the Prophets who are mentioned in the Qur’an are Messengers because of the saying of Allah, the Most High: **“And, indeed We have sent Messengers before you (O Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him)); of some of them We have related to you their story and of some We have not related to you their story.”** [Ghafir (40):78]

And the first of the Messengers is Nuh (Noah and the last of them is Muhammad ﷺ because of the saying of Allaah, the Most High: **“As We inspired Nooh and the Prophets after him.”*** [An-Nisa (4):163]

And it is established in a hadeeth regarding intercession that the people will come to Noah and they will say to him: **“You are the first Messenger that Allah sent to mankind.”**

And to the saying of Allah, the Most High about Prophet Muhammad ﷺ: **“Muhammad is not the father of any man among you, but he is the Messenger of Allah and the last (end) of the Prophets.”** [Al-Ahzab (33):40]

And if Muhammad ﷺ was the last of the Prophets, then he (ﷺ) was also the last of the Messengers for there is no Messengership without Prophethood and to this it is said: **“Every Messenger is a Prophet but not every Prophet is a Messenger.”**