Islam and Muhammad as The Brick - Seal of the Prophets

Khatam an-Nabiyyin (Arabic: خاتم النبيين‎, romanized: khātam an-nabīyīn or 'khātim an-nabīyīn), usually translated as Seal of the Prophets, is a title used in the Qur'an and by Muslims to designate the Islamic prophet Muhammad as the last of the prophets sent by God. It is synonymous with Arabic: خاتم الأنبياء‎, romanized: khātam al-anbiyā’ or khātim al-anbiyā

The title khatam an-nabiyyin or khatim an-nabiyyin, usually translated as "Seal of the Prophets", is applied to Muhammad in verse 33:40 of the Qur'an. The popular Yusuf Ali translation reads,

"Muhammad is not the father of any of your men, but (he is) the Messenger of Allah, and the Seal of the Prophets: and Allah has full knowledge of all things."

— Qur'an 33:40


In a well-known hadith reported by Abu Hurayrah, Jabir ibn Abd Allah, Ubayy ibn Ka'b, and Abu Sa‘id al-Khudri, and recorded by al-Bukhari, Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj, al-Tirmidhi, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, al-Nasa'i, and others,

Muhammad compared the relationship between himself and the previous prophets to a building missing a single brick

In Sahih al-Bukhari it is reported by Abu Hurayrah that Muhammad said,

"My similitude in comparison with the prophets before me is that of a man who has built a house nicely and beautifully, except for a place of one brick in a corner. The people go about it and wonder at its beauty, but say: 'Would that this brick be put in its place!' So I am that brick, and I am the seal of the prophets "

In Mu'jam al-Awsat, al-Tabarani narrated a variant wording of the hadith being, "So I am that [brick], I am the seal of the prophets, there is no prophet after me"

Ibn Hibban also has a variant ending with "I was the place of that brick, with me the [line of] messengers is sealed "

In Sahih Muslim and Musnad Ahmad the hadith is also reported by Jabir ibn Abd Allah " So I am the place of that brick, I have come and sealed the [line of] prophets"

Abu Dawud al-Tayalisi in his Musnad has from Jabir, "So I am the place of that brick, with me the [line of] prophets is sealed "

In another hadith, Muhammad prophesied the appearance of a number of false prophets before the day of judgement, while asserting his status as the seal of the prophets. It is reported by Thawban ibn Kaidad that Muhammad said, "The Hour will not be established until tribes of my ummah (community) unite with the idolaters, and until they worship idols. And in my ummah there will be thirty liars, each of whom will claim to be a prophet, (but) I am the seal of the prophets, there is no prophet after me."

Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman reports that Muhammad said, "In my ummah there will be twenty-seven liars and dajjals, among whom are four women, (but) I am the seal of the prophets, there is no prophet after me "

This phrasing that uses the " brick " as a metaphor for a person would have originated in Mesopotamian traditions, as discussed in my thread on the Garden of Eden HERE

While the prophet compares himself to what is essentially " the cornerstone " of a building, in turn being based on the foundational " mudbrick " of the Sumerian GAN₂ system, if we examine the Bible's gematria where " the head cornerstone " is involved, we're once again going to come across the use of triangular figurate numbers

This is discussed in my thread on The Head Corner Stone HERE