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AN ANALYSIS OF THE
FAMOUS HADEETH OF
JABIR ABOUT THE
PROPHET MOHAMMED
BEING NOOR (LIGHT)

BY ABDUL KAREEM IBN

OZZIE
Some Sufi Ashari Maturidis claim the prophet Mohammed is a man
well as literal noor (light). So they state that the prophet was first
created from the light of Allah and then the rest of the creation was
then created from this light. They use a number of verse from the
Quran (with the incorrect tafsir) and hadeeth (which are mostly weak
or fabricated) to try to prove this view of theirs is correct.

One of the Sufi Ashari Maturidis strongest and most famous proofs
utilized to prove that the prophet Mohammed was first created from
the light of Allah and the rest of the creation was created from his
light is the following hadeeth.

From Mamar from ibn ul Munkadir from Jabir who said,

"What is the first thing that Allah created?" The Holy
Prophet replied 'The first thing that Allah created was the
Light of Your Prophet, Oh Jabir'. Then the Holy Prophet
continued 'Then He created within that light all goodness
and after that, He created everything else. When He
created that Luminous Light, He stood it before Him in the
Station of Nearness (Maqam al Qurb) for 12,000 years.

This light He divided into 4 portions. From the first

portion, He created the Throne. From the second portion
He created the Pedestal. From the third portion, He
created the Angels that carry the Throne and the Trustees
of the Pedestal. The fourth portion He then stood before
Him in the Station of Love (Maqam al Hubb) for 12,000
years.

From this fourth portion He created 4 more portions.

From the first portion He created the Pen, from the second
He created the Lawh (tablet), from the third He created
Paradise. Then He stood the fourth portion before Him in
the Station of Fear (Maqam al Khawf) for 12,000 years.
From this portion, He created 4 more portions. From the
first portion He created the Angels, from the second He
created the Sun, from the third He created the Moon and
all the celestial bodies. Then He stood the fourth portion
before Him in the Station of Hope (Maqam ar Rija) for
12,000 years.

From this portion, He again created 4 more portions.

From one He created the Intellect ('Aql), from the second
portion Knowledge and Gentleness, from the third, Tawfiq
(success). The fourth portion He stood before Him in the
Station of Shyness (Maqam al Haya) for 12,000 years.
After 12,000 years, Allah turned His glance upon this
light. This look caused luminous beads of perspiration to
appear upon it. From each of these 124,000 drops of light,
Allah created the Spirit of a Prophet or Messenger. Then
the Spirits of the Prophets exhaled. From this exhalation,
Allah created all the Saints and the people who will be in
perpetual happiness, the martyrs and those who are
obedient from among the believers until the Day of
Judgement.

(The Prophet continued and said) 'So the Throne and the
Pedestal are from my light. Paradise and every enjoyment
and perpetual bliss is from my light. The Angels of the
Seven Heavens are from my light. The selected angelic
beings are from my light. The Sun and the Moon and all
the celestial bodies from my light. Knowledge, Gentleness
and Success, from my light. The spirits of the Messengers
and the Prophets, from my light. The martyrs and the
conscious people from the result of my light.

Then Allah created 12 veils. That part of my light which is

the fourth portion of the fourth portion, stood in every veil
for 1,000 years. These veils are the veil of generosity, the
veil of happiness, the veil of awe, the veils of mercy and
kindness and knowledge, humbleness, dignity, gentleness
(sakinah), patience and realisation, truthfulness. After
worshipping Allah in every veil for a period of 1,000 years,
Allah caused the light to emerge and He placed it upon the
Earth. That light illuminates what is between the Easts
and the Wests like a lantern in the darkness of the night.

Then Allah created Adam from the Earth, took from that
light and placed it within his forehead. This light was
transmitted to Seth and from him it passed from one pure
soul to another - from goodness to goodness until Allah
transferred it to the loins of Abdullah bin Abd al-Muttalib.
From him, it passed into the womb of my mother, Aminah.
Then He brought me forth into this world. He made me the
Master of the Messengers (Sayyid al Mursalin), Seal of the
Prophets (Khatm an Nabiyyin) and a mercy for all
creations.

That is how the creation of your Prophet was

accomplished, Oh Jabir. Thus said the Holy Prophet
Muhamad (saw).”

Narrated by Ibn al-Arabi al-Hatimi (one of the most deviant Sufis

ever to live) in his book “Talqeeh Al-Azhaan wa Muftaah Ma’rifat Al-
Insaan”, and al-Diyarbakri in his book “Tarikh Al-Khamis fi Ahwal
Anfasi Nafis and this narration is attributed to Abdul-Razzaq in his
Musanaf by Sufis, however this is a mistake since it does not exist in
his Musanaf, Jami, or his Tafsir.

In fact in the Tafsir of Abdul-Razzaq he contradicts this hadeeth of

Jabir and affirms that the first creation was water not the light of
prophet Mohammed. In his tafsir he brought a narration from Imam
Qatadah explaining the Ayah in surah Hud:7 where Allah says, “He
created the water, then the throne”, Qatadah said: "this (water) is
the beginning of the creations before He created the heavens and the
skies and Shaykh Ibn Jareer (Tabaree) reported that Mujahid
(a famous scholar of tafsir from the taabieen) said about this verse
(‘He created the water, then the throne’) " (It means) before he
(Allah) created anything else"

Imam al-Hafidh as-Suyootiy said in al-Hawiy in al-Fatawa 1/325

he said: "as for the hadeeth of (Jabir about)the eternity of the noor of
the Prophet, it has no basis of truth" and he said: "it has no valid
isnad".

Shaykh Abdullah Al-Ghumari, in his “Murshid Al-Hair li Bayan

Wad’ Hadeeth Jabir” he said, “This hadeeth is definitively fabricated,
and it contains the terminologies of Sufis (he is referring to the
different maqams (stations) mentioned in the hadeeth, in the hadeeth
these Sufi maqmas are mentioned: the Station of Nearness
(Maqam al Qurb), Station of Love (Maqam al Hubb), the
Station of Fear (Maqam al Khawf), the Station of Hope
(Maqam ar Rija) and the Station of Shyness (Maqam al
Haya)).

Shaykh Abdullah Al-Ghumari, in his “Murshid Al-Hair li Bayan

Wad’ Hadeeth Jabir” he also said “…this is a fabricated hadeeth that
has no basis in the books of Sunnah”

Shaykh Abdullah Al-Ghumari, in addition to his other

statements on the hadeeth of Jabir he said in “Islah Abiyat Al-
Burdah” p 75: “As-Suyuti said in his “Al-Hawi”: “It is not proven”, and
this is an ugly Tasahul (being soft from As-Suyuti), rather it is clearly
fabricated…there is in it the style of the Sufis…”

Shaykh Abdullah Al-Ghumari, further said in his “Irshad At-

Talibin” p 9-10: “Among the most famous fabricated hadeeth is the
hadeeth (of Jabir); ‘the first thing Allah created is the light of your
prophet from His light O Jabir’”
Shaykh At-Tuklah said “… Abdullah Al-Habashi and Hasan Saqqaf
declared this hadeeth to be fabricated, the same as Abdul Fattah Abu
Ghuddah and Abdullah At-Tulaydi…”

Shaykh al-Albaani said “…(About the above hadeeth) The first

thing that Allah created was the light of your Prophet, O Jabir”, is
false and so are other similar hadeeth which say that the Prophet was
created from light…” Taken from al-Silsilah al-Saheehah (458)

Shaykh ‘Abd-Allaah ibn Humayd said “With regard to the

reports that Allah created Muhammad from light…there is no proof
that any of these reports were narrated from the Prophet (so they are
fabricated). And Allah knows best. Fataawa Samaahat al-, p. 16

The Standing Committee for Issuing Fatwa’s said, “…The

reports which say that the first thing created by Allah was the light of
the Prophet, or that Allah grasped a handful of the light from His
Face and that this handful was Muhammad, then He looked at it and
it formed drops, and from each of these drops He created a Prophet,
or He created all of creation from the light of the Prophet – all of
these reports and the like are not saheeh, and nothing like this has
been narrated from the Prophet.” Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah,
1/310.

From the above it is clear that this hadeeth is fabricated and can not
be used to prove the prophet Mohammed was first created from the
light of Allah and the rest of the creation was created from his light.