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Shaykh al-Islām—may Allah sanctify his soul—said:
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The greatest of the “prophets” after Muhammad, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, is “Abraham, Allah’s close friend,” as established in Sahīh Muslim through Anas’s report from the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, that “he is the best of creation.”
The scholars likewise stated this. Among them was al-Rabī‘ ibn Khuthaym, who said: “I place no one above our Prophet, and after our Prophet, I place no one above Abraham.”
(1) The printed edition reads “Khaytham”; the reading adopted here follows the biographical dictionaries of hadith transmitters.
قَالَ شَيْخُ الْإِسْلَامِ - قَدَّسَ اللَّهُ رُوحَهُ -
فَصْلٌ:
وَأَفْضَلُ
" الْأَنْبِيَاءِ "
بَعْدَ مُحَمَّدٍ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ
" إبْرَاهِيمُ الْخَلِيلُ "
كَمَا ثَبَتَ فِي صَحِيحِ مُسْلِمٍ عَنْ أَنَسٍ عَنْ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ
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{أَنَّهُ خَيْرُ الْبَرِيَّةِ}
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وَكَذَلِكَ قَالَ الْعُلَمَاءُ:
مِنْهُمْ الرَّبِيعُ بْنُ خُثَيْم قَالَ: لَا أُفَضِّلُ عَلَى نَبِيِّنَا أَحَدًا وَلَا أُفَضِّلُ عَلَى إبْرَاهِيمَ بَعْدَ نَبِيِّنَا أَحَدًا.
(١) في المطبوعة " خيثم " والمثبت من كتب الرجال