What Is The Seal of the Prophets?

The quran says that Muhammad is the “Seal of the Prophets.” (33:40)
By this, Muslims take it to mean that, he is the last of the prophets.

Impressive.

So I was very interested to learn more from the Hadith and other Islamic sources to find out what the SEAL really meant. I finally discovered what it was and I still can’t stop laughing!

Sahih Al-Bukhari explains it:

He (Muhammad) then performed ablution and I drank of the remaining water of his ablution and then stood behind his back and saw “Khatam An-Nubuwwa” (The Seal of Prophethood) between his shoulders like a button of a tent. (Vol 7, Bk 70:574)

I stood behind him (Muhammad) and saw the seal of Prophethood between his shoulders, and it was like the “Zir-al-Hijla” (means the button of a small tent, but some say ‘egg of a partridge.’ etc.) (Vol 1, 4:189)

The seal was actually something that could be seen, something physical, shaped like a button or an egg, on Muhammad’s back!

 

This is confirmed in Sahih Muslim:
Jabir b. Samura reported: I saw the seal on his back as if it were a pigeon’s egg. (Book 030, 5790)

I then went after him and saw the Seal of Prophethood between his shoulders on the left side of his shoulder having spots on it like moles. (Book 030, 5793)

So now we learn that the seal were actually a mole with spots on his back!

 

Narrated Qurrah ibn Iyas al-Muzani:
I came to the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) with a company of Muzaynah and we swore allegiance to him. The buttons of his shirt were open. I swore allegiance to him and I put my hand inside the collar of his shirt and felt the seal… (Book 32, 4071, Sunan Abu Dawud)

It was something that could be felt to the touch! Probably a benign or malignant raised mole!

 

Question: What is the SEAL OF THE PROPHET spoken of in Sura 33:40?

Answer: An egg-shaped mole with spots, on Muhammad’s back, between his shoulders.  The SEAL of the prophet has nothing to do with being the last prophet. It was simply a physical evidence on his body that he was a prophet.

For Further Reading:

In the History of al-Tabari:
… When Bahira saw this, he descended from his cell and sent the caravan a message inviting them all… Finally he looked at Muhammad’s back, and saw the seal of prophethood between his shoulders… He replied, … “I also recognize him by the seal of prophethood which is below the cartilage of his shoulders and which is like an apple.” … (The History of al-Tabari: Muhammad at Mecca, translated and annotated by W. Montgomery Watt and M. V. McDonald [State University of New York Press (SUNY), Albany 1988], Volume VI, pp. 45, 46)

Al-Harith – Muhammad b. Sa‘d – Muhammad b. ‘Umar – ‘Ali b. ‘Isa al-Hakami – his father – ‘Amir b. Rabi‘ah: I heard Zayd b. ‘Amr b. Nufayl saying … “He is a man who is neither short nor tall, whose hair is neither abundant nor sparse, whose eyes are always red, and who has the seal of prophethood between his shoulders. His name is Ahmad…” (p. 64)

Ahmad b. Sinan al-Qattan al-Wasiti – Abu Mu‘awiyah – A‘mash – Abu Zibyan – Ibn ‘Abbas: A man of the Banu ‘Amir came to the Prophet and said, “Show me the seal which is between your shoulders, and if you lie under any enchantment I will cure you, for I am the best enchanter of the Arabs.” “Do you wish me to show you a sign?” asked the Prophet. “Yes,” said the man, “summon that cluster of dates.” So the Prophet looked at a cluster of dates hanging from a date palm and summoned it, and began to snap his finger until it stood before him. Then the man said, “Tell it to go back,” and it went back. The Amiri said, “O Banu Amir, I have never seen a greater magician than I have seen today.” (Pp. 66-67)

“Then one said to the other, ‘Open his breast.’ He opened my heart, and took out from it the pollution of Satan and the clot of blood, and threw them away. Then one said to the other, ‘Wash his breast as you would a receptacle– or, wash his heart as you would a covering.’ Then he summoned the sakinah, which looked like the face of a white cat, and it was placed in my heart. Then one of them said to the other, ‘Sew up his breast.’ So they sewed up my breast and placed the seal between my shoulders…” (p. 75)

Thanks to Sam Shamoun.

Is This A True Prophet?

1. God speaks DIRECTLY to the prophets He chooses.
Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Isaiah, and the rest, right up to John the Baptist and Jesus, all spoke and heard from God directly.

Why didn’t God speak to this “prophet” Muhammad directly as HE had been doing for thousands of years?
2. The genealogies of many of the prophets are recorded in the scriptures.
We can trace Noah, Abraham, Moses, David … all the way back to Adam. The genealogy of Jesus too, is preserved and remember, this was recorded way back in the 1st century AD.

Yet a “prophet” who came 600 years later, when there had already been great advances in writing and record keeping and science, has no record of his genealogy. Why didn’t allah give it?  Muhammad claims to be descended from Ishmael but there is no such evidence.
3. Prophets in scripture worshipped God Almighty and no one else.

Muhammad worshipped hundreds of idols for 40 years of his life! Why did allah allow his chosen last “prophet” to be a pagan idolatrous polytheist bowing down and worshipping stone statues as his gods for two-thirds of his life?
4. The quran says that prophets are to come from the line of Abraham, Isaac & Jacob.
And We gave him Isaac and Jacob; and We placed among his descendants the gift of prophecy and the Scriptures;… (Al Ankabut 29:25)

Although Ishmael is a son of Abraham, there is no mention of Ishmael’s name here; only Abraham’s son, Isaac and grandson, Jacob and THEIR descendants carry the prophethood. Not Ishmael and not his descendants. Based on this and other verses like 2:44, 19:49, 37:95-109, 21:69-70, 38:43-46, Muhammad is DISQUALIFIED and has no right to become a prophet. The only way he can claim to be a prophet is to say that these Quran verses from allah are false.

5. Allah says in the quran that IF Muhammad was a false prophet, then allah would seize him and cut off his aorta. This is confirmed in the hadith and tafsir. Here is the ayah:

Qur’an 69:44-46—And if he had fabricated against Us some of the sayings, We would certainly have seized him by the right hand, then We would certainly have cut off his aorta.

Question: What happened at Muhammad’s death?
Answer: Sahih al-Bukhari 4428 —The Prophet in his ailment in which he died, used to say, “O Aishah! I still feel the pain caused by the food I ate at Khaibar, and at this time, I feel as if my aorta is being cut from that poison.”

Muhammad was a false prophet. There was no direct call from allah.

When Muhammad ran away terrified from the Hira cave after having an encounter with a mysterious being, it was his wife Katijah who first consoled him saying it was an angel even though Muhammad had originally been convinced it was a demon. So a woman was the first one to declare him a prophet? In those times, a woman’s testimony was not accepted the way a man’s testimony is.

In the end, Allah himself killed Muhammad in the most shameful and painful way at the hands of a poor Jewish girl because Muhammad was a false prophet who fabricated the sayings of allah.