The Reality of the Belief about the World being created for Rasool Allah (SAW) 💚
Muhammad Ibn Sinan said, "Hushaim said, "Sayyar - Abu al-Hakam - said, "Yazid al-Fakir said, "Jabir bin Abdullah said, "The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said, "I was given five things that were not given to any of the prophets before me. I was given victory by terror (terror in heart of his enemies) for a month's march, and "the earth was made for me" a mosque and a sanctuary, and any man of my nation who is caught in prayer should pray (he can perform tayyamum anywhere from the earth), and I was given the right to the spoils of war, and a prophet used to be sent to his own people in particular, but I was sent to all men in general, and I was given intercession."
[Sahih Al Bukhari 438]
Its also narrated by Muslim and in other big Hadith collections.
This hadith mentions the word that this world was created for me and as a mosque and other narrations such as the one in Musnad Ahmad which Ibn Kathir used in his tafsir only has the words that this world was created for me at the end of this hadith.
And in other narrations that Ibn Asakir (rh) recorded, it is about the world being created for him, and the thing is that not all of these narrations are fake, and there are narrations that are supported by similar narrations, like the one in Musnad Ahmad that I mentioned, which also supports those narrations that the world was created for him.
And Imam Ibn Rajab Al Hanbali (rh) in Latif Mar'if [74] said:
"These narrations have a reality, as they support one another and are proved by each other."
And Ibn Tayimiyyah (rh) said:
"When Adam was created, God wrote my prophethood and revealed it before the soul was breathed into him, just as God writes the slave's livelihood, his time, his work, and whether he will be happy or unhappy if he creates the fetus before the soul is breathed into it. If man is the seal of the creatures, the last of them, the sum total of all of them, and his virtue is the virtue of the creatures at all, and Muhammad is the man of this eye and the center of this millstone and the parts of this assembly were as if they were the ultimate ends of the creatures, it is not denied that for him it is said that all of them were shaved and if it was not for him, it would not have been created, so that if this speech and similar is explained by what is indicated in the Book and Sunnah, then this is acceptable to him. So this is unobjectionable (and cannot be refuted)."
(Majmu Rasil wal Masail vol,1 pg,157)
All of them were with the belief that the world was created for the Prophet (SAW). Even Ibn Kathir is one of those with this belief and also Imam Dahabi in his Siyar and Tarikh Al Islam has said things that put him in the list of great scholars who are with the belief that this world was created for Rasool Allah (SAW).
No scholar from the past has ever rejected this, and no one from the Salaf is ever reported to have said anything against this belief, and only scholars who deviated and made their own beliefs have opposed this belief, as this has been the traditional view of the Ahlus Sunnah.
And there is a Verse in the Holy Quran "We did not made Mankind and the Jinn except to Worship me".
And This verse is that the Living creatures which are the Mankind and the Jinn were created so that they will Worship their Lord And one important point is that this verse also needs explanation as people who quote verses without their explanation are always misguided
Ibn Tayimiyyah (rh) explained it in "كتاب درء تعارض العقل والنقل (8/480)"
“Ibn Jurayj narrated on the authority of Zayd ibn Aslam: “Except that they worship Me.” He said: He created them for misery and happiness.
And also on the authority of Wahb bin Munabbih: {Except that they worship Me} He said: He created them for obedience and created them for disobedience. Ibn Abi Hatim mentioned them both?
Accordingly, what is meant by worship is that they are subject to His judgment and decree, and that His will is effective in them.
This is what Al-Walibi narrated on the authority of Ibn Abbas, where he said: Except that they acknowledge their servitude to Me willingly or unwillingly.
Al-Tha’labi said: “If it is said: How did they disbelieve, when He created them to acknowledge His Lordship and to submit to His command and will? It is said: They submitted to His decree that He decreed upon them, because His decree is binding upon them, and they are not able to refrain from it if it descends upon them. Rather, those who disbelieved in Him disobeyed Him by doing what He commanded.
And the Saying of Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (RA) is very clear it clearly means that this Verse means that they should submit to Allah willingly or unwillingly as they were created to Believe in Allah but deviated and went astray."
So this verse is explained that it cannot be used to refute the belief that this world was created for Rasool Allah (SAW) and if this verse was a proof against it, then why the scholars of the past never used this verse or refuted the belief? And scholars like Ibn Tayimiyyah called this belief unassailable.
Ibn Asakir narrated on the authority of Salman Farsi who said: It was said to the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace: God spoke to Moses directly, created Jesus from the Holy Spirit, took Abraham as a friend, and chose Adam. What bounty have you been given? Gabriel descended and said: Your Lord says: If you have taken Abraham as a friend, then I have taken you as a beloved. If you have spoken to Moses on earth, then I have spoken to you in heaven. If you have created Jesus from the Holy Spirit, then I have created your name two thousand years before I created creation. You have trodden in heaven a place that no one has trodden before you and no one will trod after you. If you were… I have chosen Adam, and I have sealed the prophets with you. I have not created a creation more honorable to Me than you. I have given you the Pool, intercession, the she-camel, the rod, the crown, the club, the Hajj, the Umrah, the month of Ramadan, and intercession. All of this is for you, until the shade of My Throne on the Day of Resurrection is extended over you, and the crown of praise is tied upon your head. I have linked your name with My name, so I am not mentioned in any place until you are mentioned with Me. I have created the world and its people so that they may know your honor and your status with Me. Were it not for you, I would not have created the world.
And this hadith is not the only one that mentions that if it were not for you, I would not have created the world. Ibn Asakir narrated this hadith with 4 chains of transmission and all have a chain of transmission from 4 different companions of the Prophet (SAW).
And Ibn Tayimiyyah has already said that this belief is correct on the basis of such ahadith because they are supported by other narrations.
And Also Shaykh Al Islam Jalaludin Suyuti (rh) in "كتاب الخصائص الكبرى" (2/330):
"Has a Whole Chapter where he has quoted narrations from Bukhari Muslim, Musnad Ahmad and from the collections of Al Tabarani to prove this view and more than half of those narrations there are authentic and fabricated are not included there.
Sheikh Al Islam Izz al-Din Al Salam (rh) said: Among his characteristics, may God bless him and grant him peace, is that God Almighty spoke to him through three types of revelation: true visions, speech without an intermediary, and speech through Gabriel."
So if you see scholars who say or have said that this belief is wrong, then you should avoid listening to those scholars because they have deviated from the traditional opinions of the great scholars of Islam. And they have tried to say something against the unassailable Belief of Traditional Islam and Ahlus Sunnah.
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