Prophecies About Prophet Muhammad ﷺ By Adam

(Reference: Mufti. Shah Rafi Uddin Hamdani & Dr. Imran Khan (2018), Encyclopedia of Muhammad , Article: 02, Seerat Research Center Karachi, Pakistan, Vol. 1, Pg. 91-97.)

Adam, the father of mankind, discussed the arrival of Muhammad in his teachings which are found in different Holy Scriptures of divine religions. His words which are not found in the written form directly, as no press or paper was available at that time, were preserved by God and discussed in divine books. Some of those glad tidings which are found about Muhammad’s arrival are going to discuss in upcoming lines to show what Abu Adam said about his greatest progeny.

There is a chapter about Adam in the Bible of Barnabas ¹ that presents a discussion of Jesus with one of his disciples. Jesus said:

فلما انتصب آدم على قدمیه رأى في الهواء كتابة تتألق كالشمس نصھا ’’لا إله إلا اللّٰه و محمد رسول اللّٰه‘‘، ففتح حینئذ آدم فاه وقال: ’’محمد رسول اللّٰه‘‘، فأجاب اللّٰه: ’’مرحبا بك یا عبدى آدم، وإنى أقول لكل أنك أول إنسان خلقت، وھذا الذى رأیته إنما ھو ابنک الذى سیأتى إلى العالم بعد الآن بسنین عدیدة، وسیكون رسولي الذى لأجله خلقت كل الأشیاء، الذى متى جاء سیعطى نورا للعالم، الذى كانت نفسه موضوعة فی بھاء سماوى ستین ألف سنة قبل أن أخلق شیٔا‘‘ فضرع آدم إلى اللّٰه قائلا: یا رب ھبنی ھذه الکتابة على أظفار أصابع یدي‘‘ فمنح اللّٰه الإنسان أول تلك الكتابة على إبھامیه، على ظفر إبھام الید الیمنى مانصه ’’لا إله إلا اللّٰه‘‘، وعلی ظفر أبھام الید الیسرى مانصه ’’محمد رسول اللّٰه‘‘، فقبّل الأنسان الأول بحنو أبوى ھذه الكلمات، ومسح عینیه وقال: ’’بورک ذلک الیوم الذي سیأتي فیه ألى العالم.‘‘ ²

'Adam, having sprung up upon his feet, saw in the air a writing that shone like the sun, which said: "There is only one God, and Mohammed is the messenger of God." After that Adam opened his mouth and said: "I thank thee, O Lord my God, that thou hast deigned to create me; but tell me. I pray thee, what meaneth the message of these words: "Mohammed is the messenger of God. Have there been other men before me?" 'Then said God: "Be thou welcome, O my servant Adam. I tell thee that thou art the first man whom I have created. He whom thou hast seen undefined is thy son, who shall come into the world many years hence. He shall be My messenger, for whom I had created all things; who shall give light to the world when he shall come; whose soul was set in a celestial splendour sixty thousand years before I made anything." 'Adam besought God, saying: "Lord, grant me this writing upon the nails of the fingers of my hands." Then God gave to the first man upon his thumbs that writing; upon the thumb-nail of the right hand it said: "There is only one God," and upon the thumb-nail of the left it said: "Mohammed is the Messenger of God." Then with fatherly affection, the first man kissed those words, and rubbed his eyes, and said: "Blessed be that day when thou shalt come to the world."

These verses of the Gospel support the Muslims’ belief (developed in the light of Ahadith) that the first creation of Allah was the soul of Prophet Muhammad . All other things were created after it. The following hadith further supports this claim. The Holy Prophet said:

عن جابر بن عبد اللّٰه الأنصارى قال: قلت يا رسول اللّٰه، بأبى أنت وأمى، أخبرنى عن أول شىء خلقه اللّٰه تعالى قبل الأشياء. قال: يا جابر، إن اللّٰه تعالى قد خلق قبل الأشياء نور نبيك من نوره، فجعل ذلك النور يدور بالقدرة حيث شاء اللّٰه تعالى، ولم يكن فى ذلك الوقت لوح ولا قلم، ولا جنة ولا نار، ولا ملك ولا سماء، ولا أرض ولا شمس ولا قمر، ولا جنى ولا أنس…³

Jabir bin Abdullah Ansari said: I said, O Messenger of Allah, my father and mother are foregone on you, tell me about the first thing created by God Almighty before all the things. He said: O Jabir, God Almighty has created Light (Noor) of your Prophet before the Light (Noor)of the things from His own Light (Noor), Making this light spins everywhere where God Almighty wished, and there were not at the time, board and pen, nor the heaven nor the fire, nor the angel nor the sky, nor land nor sun nor the moon, nor the jinn nor the human being.

The statement “God Almighty has created Light (Noor) of your prophet before the Noor of the things” clearly shows that Prophet Muhammad was the first creation, and Adam was created after him. So Adam , even though he was the first human to be created, was sent to this earth as a messenger, and a witness to the prophet hood of Muhammad . In this regard, another verse in the Gospel of Barnabas in which Adam states:

فاحتجب اللّٰه وطردھما الملاک میخائیل من الفردوس، فلما التفت آدم رأى مکتوبا فوق الباب: ’’لا إله إلا اللّٰه محمد رسول اللّٰه‘‘ فبکى عند ذلک وقال: ’’أیھا الابن عسی اللّٰه أن یرید أن تأتي سریعا تخلصنا من ھذا الشقاء‘‘. ⁴

'God hid himself, and the angel Michael drove them forth from paradise. Whereupon Adam, turning him round, saw written above the gate, "There is only one God, and Mohammed is messenger of God." Whereupon, weeping, he said: "May it be pleasing to God, O my son, that thou come quickly and draw us out of misery."

It is a known fact that all the Gospels and the Bible have been continuously tampered by the Christians and the Jews. This tampering has been done over the course of centuries to ensure that the edited verses support their claims and beliefs. Hence the Christians have always tried to accommodate the verses (which were revealed for Muhammad ) upon Jesus . This act is baffling since the sanctity of Jesus is certain and established. There are many verses in the Holy Quran and the Ahadith (to be discussed in the subsequent chapter) which elucidate and support the actual status of Jesus .

Hence, tampering with the verses of the present Bible, which still indicates the true prophecy about Muhammad (even though it has been altered many times in the past) is unethical, dishonest, deceitful and a grave sin. Another manipulated verse given in the Bible, which the Christians try to fit on Jesus (and fail dismally) is follows:

فَقَالَ ٱلرَّبُّ ٱلْإِلَهُ لِلْحَيَّةِ: لِأَنَّكِ فَعَلْتِ هَذَا، مَلْعُونَةٌ أَنْتِ مِنْ جَمِيعِ ٱلْبَهَائِمِ وَمِنْ جَمِيعِ وُحُوشِ ٱلْبَرِّيَّةِ. عَلَى بَطْنِكِ تَسْعَيْنَ وَتُرَابًا تَأْكُلِينَ كُلَّ أَيَّامِ حَيَاتِكِ. وَأَضَعُ عَدَاوَةً بَيْنَكِ وَبَيْنَ ٱلْمَرْأَةِ، وَبَيْنَ نَسْلِكِ وَنَسْلِهَا. هُوَ يَسْحَقُ رَأْسَكِ، وَأَنْتِ تَسْحَقِينَ عَقِبَهُ. ⁵

Then the Lord God said to the snake, “You will be punished for this; you alone of all the animals must bear this curse: From now on you will crawl on your belly, and you will have to eat dust as long as you live. I will make you and the woman hate each other; her offspring and yours will always be enemies. Her offspring will crush your head, and you will bite her offspring's heel.”

If we consider the Christian’s interpretation that these verses of the Bible are for Jesus and he was the one who smashed the head of the Devil by sacrificing his life through crucifixion, so this is the spot to be scrutinised in the logical directive under the light of history. Throughout the life of Jesus , very few of the people, including 12 disciples accepted his faith out of which Peter hurt Jesus and was called Satan at one spot as it is remarked in the given verse that:

فَأَخَذَهُ بُطْرُسُ إِلَيْهِ وَٱبْتَدَأَ يَنْتَهِرُهُ قَائِلًا: حَاشَاكَ يَارَبُّ! لَا يَكُونُ لَكَ هَذَا! َٱلْتَفَتَ وَقَالَ لِبُطْرُسَ: ٱذْهَبْ عَنِّي يَاشَيْطَانُ! أَنْتَ مَعْثَرَةٌ لِي، لِأَنَّكَ لَا تَهْتَمُّ بِمَا لِلهِ لَكِنْ بِمَا لِلنَّاسِ⁶.

Jesus turned around and said to Peter, “Get away from me Satan! You are an obstacle in my way, because these thoughts of yours do not come from God, but from human nature.”

In reality, Jesus had already told Peter that he would refuse him. Peter had indignantly refuted the idea and declared that, even if all the other disciples deserted Jesus , he would suffer death rather than disown his lord. However, when the moment came, Peter had to withdraw from his claim, and pronouncement as Jesus predicted: when confronted in the courtyard of the high priest, he denied ever knowing Jesus . When he realised what he had done, and that Jesus had been right all along, Peter was deeply ashamed, and wept bitterly as Matthew mentions it:

فَتَذَكَّرَ بُطْرُسُ كَلَامَ يَسُوعَ ٱلَّذِي قَالَ لَهُ: «إِنَّكَ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَصِيحَ ٱلدِّيكُ تُنْكِرُنِي ثَلَاثَ مَرَّاتٍ». فَخَرَجَ إِلَى خَارِجٍ وَبَكَى بُكَاءً مُرًّا. ⁷

Peter remembered what Jesus had told him: “Before the rooster crows, you will say three times that you do not know me.” He went out and wept bitterly.

Another disciple Judas Iscariot, the traitor, was the son of Simon who lived in Kerioth of Judah. He betrayed Jesus for thirty pieces of silver and later hanged himself. The Bible of Matthew states:

حِينَئِذٍ ذَهَبَ وَاحِدٌ مِنَ ٱلِٱثْنَيْ عَشَرَ، ٱلَّذِي يُدْعَى يَهُوذَا ٱلْإِسْخَرْيُوطِيَّ، إِلَى رُؤَسَاءِ ٱلْكَهَنَةِ وَقَالَ: مَاذَا تُرِيدُونَ أَنْ تُعْطُونِي وَأَنَا أُسَلِّمُهُ إِلَيْكُمْ؟». فَجَعَلُوا لَهُ ثَلَاثِينَ مِنَ ٱلْفِضَّةِ. وَمِنْ ذَلِكَ ٱلْوَقْتِ كَانَ يَطْلُبُ فُرْصَةً لِيُسَلِّمَهُ. ⁸

Then one of the twelve disciples—the one named Judas Iscariot—went to the chief priests and asked, “What will you give me if I betray Jesus to you?” They counted out thirty silver coins and gave them to him. From then on Judas was looking for a good chance to hand Jesus over to them.

It is said that Judas was a violent Jewish Nationalist who had followed Jesus in the hope that through him his nationalistic flame and dreams might be realised. Nevertheless, he was one of the recognised disciples of Jesus who is referred in the Bible as:

أَجَابَهُمْ يَسُوعُ: أَلَيْسَ أَنِّي أَنَا ٱخْتَرْتُكُمْ، ٱلِٱثْنَيْ عَشَرَ؟ وَوَاحِدٌ مِنْكُمْ شَيْطَانٌ! ⁹

Jesus replied, “I chose the twelve of you, didn't I? Yet one of you is a devil!”?

ثُمَّ إِنَّ يَهُوذَا ٱلْإِسْخَرْيُوطِيَّ، وَاحِدًا مِنَ ٱلِٱثْنَيْ عَشَرَ، مَضَى إِلَى رُؤَسَاءِ ٱلْكَهَنَةِ لِيُسَلِّمَهُ إِلَيْهِمْ. وَلَمَّا سَمِعُوا فَرِحُوا، وَوَعَدُوهُ أَنْ يُعْطُوهُ فِضَّةً. وَكَانَ يَطْلُبُ كَيْفَ يُسَلِّمُهُ فِي فُرْصَةٍ مُوافِقَةٍ. ¹⁰

Then Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve disciples, went off to the chief priests in order to betray Jesus to them. They were pleased to hear what he had to say, and promised to give him money. So Judas started looking for a good chance to hand Jesus over to them.

These are the proofs that the quoted verses of the Bible, Genesis 3: 14-15 are not for Jesus but the precise application of them are possible for the Holy Prophet . Some of the Christian Scholars state that the triumph of the demon was only in appearance. Spiritually, Jesus won, but if we scrutinise the historically available facts, it becomes clear that Jesus could not overcome the devil spiritually too. As the 2 out of the 12 disciples were called Satan by him and the mission of the Satan is to detract the creature of Allah for sending them to Hell; he succeeded in his mission against Jesus at least in the case of Judas Iscariot, the traitor. ¹¹

Contrary to Jesus , Prophet Muhammad was the man in the history of the world who crashed the complete system of Satan and overwhelmed it. He changed the existing world by his endeavours and finally applies the teachings of Allah on the earth. On the other hand, he worked on the inner side of the human beings and turned his thousands of disciples in the pious people and saint of Allah. As the Holy Quran states:

مُّحَمَّدٌ رَّسُولُ اللَّهِ وَالَّذِينَ مَعَهُ أَشِدَّاءُ عَلَى الْكُفَّارِ رُحَمَاءُ بَيْنَهُمْ تَرَاهُمْ رُكَّعًا سُجَّدًا يَبْتَغُونَ فَضْلًا مِّنَ اللَّهِ وَرِضْوَانًا سِيمَاهُمْ فِي وُجُوهِهِم مِّنْ أَثَرِ السُّجُودِ ذَٰلِكَ مَثَلُهُمْ فِي التَّوْرَاةِ وَمَثَلُهُمْ فِي الْإِنجِيلِ كَزَرْعٍ أَخْرَجَ شَطْأَهُ فَآزَرَهُ فَاسْتَغْلَظَ فَاسْتَوَىٰ عَلَىٰ سُوقِهِ يُعْجِبُ الزُّرَّاعَ لِيَغِيظَ بِهِمُ الْكُفَّارَ وَعَدَ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ مِنْهُم مَّغْفِرَةً وَأَجْرًا عَظِيمًا. ¹²

Mohammed (peace and blessings be upon him) is the Noble Messenger of Allah; and his companions are stern with the disbelievers and merciful among themselves – you will see them bowing and falling in prostration, seeking Allah’s munificence and His pleasure; their signs are on their faces, from the effects of their prostration; this trait of theirs is mentioned in the Taurat; and their trait is mentioned in the Injeel; like a cultivation that sprouted its shoot, then strengthened it, then thickened and then stood firm upon its stem, pleasing the farmer – in order to enrage the disbelievers with them; Allah has promised forgiveness and a great reward to those among them who have faith and do good deeds.

Moreover, the Holy Prophet himself said:

عن ابن عباس، أن رسول اللّٰه صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم خطب الناس في حجة الوداع، فقال: قد يئس الشيطان بأن يعبد بأرضكم ولكنه رضي أن يطاع فيما سوى ذلك مما تحاقرون من أعمالكم، فاحذروا يا أيها الناس إني قد تركت فيكم ما إن اعتصمتم به فلن تضلوا أبدا كتاب اللّٰه وسنة نبيه صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم.¹³

Ibn-e-Abbas reported that Allah’s Prophet spoke to the people at Hijjat-ul-Wida and said: O people! This day Satan has lost all hope of re-establishing his worship in this land of yours. But should you obey him even in what may seem to you trilling, it will be a matter of pleasure for him. O people I have left in between you (two things) if you hold them you will never detract, Book of Allah and Sunnah of His Prophet .

This claim of Holy Prophet , the Honest and the Trustworthy, that the devil got disappointed completely from the continent of Arab is the proof that his head was crushed completely according to the verse of Bible, Genesis: 3: 14-15. The Holy Prophet said about Umar :

‏"‏إِيهًا يَا ابْنَ الْخَطَّابِ وَالَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ مَا لَقِيَكَ الشَّيْطَانُ سَالِكًا فَجًّا قَطُّ إِلاَّ سَلَكَ فَجًّا غَيْرَ فَجِّكَ.‏" ¹⁴

"O Ibne Al-Khattab! By Him in Whose Hands, my life is! Never does Satan see you going in a way, but he takes another way other than yours."

It shows that a few companions of Prophet Muhammad were themselves, the head crushers of devil, and Satan used to run away from them. At another place Allah says:

قَالَ هَٰذَا صِرَاطٌ عَلَيَّ مُسْتَقِيمٌ 41‏ إِنَّ عِبَادِي لَيْسَ لَكَ عَلَيْهِمْ سُلْطَانٌ إِلَّا مَنِ اتَّبَعَكَ مِنَ الْغَاوِينَ ‎42‏ ¹⁵

Said Allah, “This path leads straight towards Me. Indeed you do not have any power over My bondmen, except those wanderers who follow you.”(The devil is unsuccessful in tempting Allah’s chosen bondmen to commit sin.)

By all the details which are presented in this discussion, it proofs that the forecast which was given in the Gospel of Barnabas Ch. 39 and Genesis, 3: 14-15 are for Prophet Muhammad and he is the true personality for which they were revealed on Adam .

• ¹  The Gospel of Barnabas depicts the life of Jesus, who was one of the twelfth disciples of Jesus Christ. Two unique duplicates are known to have existed, both dated to the late sixteenth or mid seventeenth several years, with one written in ItaLiyan and the other in Spanish. The Spanish unique duplicate is lost, its substance surviving just in a partial eighteenth-century transcript. Barnabas is about the same length as the four canonical gospels put together, with the bulk being devoted to an account of Jesus' ministry, much of it harmonized from accounts also found in the canonical gospels. In some key respects, it fits in with the Islamic clarification of Christian beginnings and invalidates the New Testament lessons of Christianity.
• ²  Gospel of Barnabas: 39
• ³  Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Abi Bakr bin Abdul Malik Al-Qastalani, Al-Mawahib-ul-Laduniyah bil Manahil Muhammadiyah, Tashreef-ul-Allahi Ta’ala lahu { }, Al-Maktaba-tul-Taufiqiyah, Cairo, Egypt, Vol. 1, Pg. 48.
• ⁴  Gospel of Barnabas: 41
• ⁵  The Bible, Genesis 3: 14-15
• ⁶  The Bible, Matthew 16: 23
• ⁷  The Bible, Matthew 26: 75
• ⁸  The Bible, Matthew 26: 14-16
• ⁹  The Bible, John 6: 70
• ¹⁰  The Bible, Mark 14: 10-11
• ¹¹  Here this statement is used only to develop the argument otherwise this is prohibited in Islamic theology to belief that devil can beat any prophet of Allah ever.
• ¹²  Holy Quran, Al Fath (The Victory) 48: 29
• ¹³  Abu ‘Abdullah Al-Hakim Neshapuri (1990), Al-Mustadrak ‘Ala Al-Sahihain, Hadith: 318, Darul Kutub Al-‘Ilmia, Beirut, Lebanon, Vol. 1, Pg. 171.
• ¹⁴  Abu Abdullah Muhammad Bin Ismail Al-Bukhari (1999), Sahih Bukhari, Kitab-ul-Fazailu Ashaab-un-Nabi, Hadith: 3683, Darussalam, Riyadh, Saudia, Pg. 619.
• ¹⁵  Holy Quran, Al-Hijr (The Stones) 15: 41-42