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Alhamdulillah, all praise is due to Allah, the one and the unique. It is He alone that we worship

and it is His aid that we seek. He is the Lord of the oppressed and the one who answers

the du'aas of the weak. So today, inshallah, we'll continue in our series of the names of

the prophets and messengers and the quantity and their characteristics. And in our last lesson,

I had mentioned the famous Hadith of Abu Dhar. And I had mentioned that even though some of our

modern scholars make it authentic, actually it does appear to be not authentic. So we do not know

the number of prophets and messengers even though there's nothing wrong with narrating the Hadith

and saying, look, this is found in a number of references in Muslim-e-Mahmed and others. And there

is some, you know, slight weakness of the chain. So we don't base our theology. As I have explained

many, many times that the genre of weak Hadith, we have a lot of different opinions about them. And

the position that is the mainstream position is that weak Hadith can never be used to derive theology.

And this is a point of theology that we're doing here. And weak Hadith may be used for specific

types of blessings and genres and whatnot. And so there's no problem in mentioning the Hadith

and pointing out that, hey, we cannot really derive theology from it, but it is narrated,

it is found in the books. So we do not know the number of prophets and the number of messengers

that have come. What we do know, however, is that there are far more than what have been

mentioned in the Quran and in the Sunnah. And this is something that is explicit in the Quran.

In Surat Al-Nisa, verse 164, Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala mentions in the Quran that

wa Rasul'an qadah qasasnahum alaykum in Qablu wa Rasul'an lam nakosusum alaykum. And there are

prophets or messengers that we have told you their stories before and there are others that we have

not told you. So lam nakosusum. So the Quran never claims to be a history book of all of the

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