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Prophet Muhammad (sws) As The Leader Of Mankind
Hadith reference :
1. https://sunnah.com/bukhari:4712
2. https://sunnah.com/muslim:523a
With regards to above hadiths, can we call prophet muhammad (sws) as the leader of mankind in this world and in the hereafter ?
PS: I did find one post about about Imam ul anbiya (Discussion 61760) but my question is with regards to leader of mankind
Jazakallahu khairaa.
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Prophet Muhammad (sws) As The Leader Of Mankind
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He is what God has told about him. He is the messenger, the role model in ethics. But he was not essentially a political leader. In his political leadership, he is still a role model in ethics. Now whoever accepts him, he is his messenger and the role model.
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Ok sir, I agree but I wanted to get clarity on these statements of the prophet–
1. https://sunnah.com/bukhari:4712 –
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Some (cooked) meat was brought to Allah Apostle and the meat of a forearm was presented to him as he used to like it. He ate a morsel of it and said, “I will be the chief of all the people on the Day of Resurrection……
2. https://sunnah.com/muslim:523a –
Abu Huraira reported that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon hlmg) said:
I have been given superiority over the other prophets in six respects: I have been given words which are concise but comprehensive in meaning; I have been helped by terror (in the hearts of enemies): spoils have been made lawful to me: the earth has been made for me clean and a place of worship; I have been sent to all mankind and the line of prophets is closed with me.
3. https://sunnah.com/shamail:238 –
In the above hadith prophet is selling a free man Zahir (rta) and with this hadith scholars infer that entire ummah is slave of prophet muhammad (sws).
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1. this is a narration of tafsir, and they are not authentic enough to make a ground for any argument. They can be presented only in support of something already established. We have to keep narrations in the frame of the religion to understand them. If we accept this narration the people would be the people of his Ummah, Muslims. and of course, we consider him our religious leader.
2. Translation of Fazilat, is not superiority but the distinguishing quality which may or may not be a superiority. The prophet explicitly forbade his followers from making him superior to other prophets. All prophets have equal status with different distinctions according to their circumstances.
3. This is a matter of fun. To sell a free man has been counted as a sin and crime. To attribute it to the prophet is not a good sense. No Haram thing is Halal for the prophet.
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@Irfan76 sir, could you please elaborate about the 1st point. Why tafsir narrations are weak and how its weak if its in Sahih Bukhari ?
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Thanks @Irfan76 sir , 3rd point which you mentioned about selling a free man was an eye opener. Yes, something is seriously wrong with that hadith.
“Traditional narrative” put it under the principle that prophet (sws) jokes are also truth as he cant speak a lie.
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Authentic traditional narrative too, does not adopt it.
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Traditional narrative in my region is still using this hadith in their azmath-e-sahaba jalsa lectures.
Attaching here the audio which I had about the hadith of Zahir (rta). (From 39:00 – 42:32).
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This is not an academic or scholarly narrative hence not traditional in this sense.
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