Question:
As Salamu ‘alaykum wa rahmatuLLAHi ta’Ala wa barakatuh,
Could you please cite the scholars regarding the matter that every hundred years there comes a prophet (I do not mean mujaddid).
Wa salam.
Answer:
Alaykum Salam,
I do not know that saying. Some prophets lived up to a millennium such as Adam and Nuh, while others lived contemporaneously with one another such as Yaqub and his sons or Yahya and `Isa, and after the latter there were hundreds of years without prophets–upon our Prophet and all of them blessings and peace, so the saying that at the beginning of every hundred years comes a prophet does not appear to be accurate.
Hajj Gibril Haddad
