Question:
Assalamu ‘alaikum wa rahmatullah Sheikh,
Is it known definitively which of the 25 prophets mentioned in the Holy Qur’an were messengers? In the fourth citation below, Sh. Tahir al-Jazai-ri in al-Jawahir al-Kalamiyyah mentions that all 25 prophets mentioned in the Holy Qur’an were messengers.
Was Dawud ‘alayhis salaam a messenger? In the first citation, from al-Fara-id al-Hisaan of Sh. Ibrahim al-Yaqoubi, he is not mentioned as a messenger. In the second citation, from Jawahir Kalamiyyah, Sh. Tahir mentions prophet Dawud was instructed to follow the sacred law of prophet Musa, ‘alayhim as-salaam, which would entail he is a prophet and not a messenger, However in the four citation, from Jawahir, he says that Dawud ‘alayhis salaam was from the messengers. What is your understanding Sheikh?
Answer:
Alaykum Salam,
Jaza’iri’s list is confirmed by the poem of Shaykh Muhammad al-Damanhuri listing the names of the Messengers: http://www.aslein.net/
Wassalam,
Hajj Gibril Haddad
