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Are the Prophets also Messengers?

Question:

Are the Prophets mentioned in the saying of Allaah, the Most High: "Verily, We have inspired you (O Muhammad (??? ???? ???? ????)) as We inspired Nooh.", Messengers or not? And who is the first Messenger?
Answer:

The Prophets mentioned in the saying of Allaah, the Most High: "Verily, We have inspired you (O Muhammad (??? ???? ???? ????)) as We inspired Nooh and the Prophets after him." - An-Nisaa' (4):163
The ones who are mentioned in the context of the saying of Allaah, the Most High, are all Messengers: "Messengers as bearers of good news as well as of warning in order that mankind should have no plea against Allaah after the Messengers." - An-Nisaa' (4):165

And all the Prophets who are mentioned in the Qur'aan are Messengers because of the saying of Allaah, the Most High: "And, indeed We have sent Messengers before you (O Muhammad (??? ???? ???? ????)); of some of them We have related to you their story and of some We have not related to you their story." - Ghaafir (40):78

And the first of the Messengers is Nooh and the last of them is Muhammad (??? ???? ???? ????) because of the saying of Allaah, the Most High: "As We inspired Nooh and the Prophets after him." - An-Nisa (4):163

And it is established in a hadeeth regarding intercession that the people will come to Nooh and they will say to him: "You are the first Messenger that Allaah sent to mankind."

And to the saying of Allaah, the Most High about Prophet Muhammad (??? ???? ???? ????): "Muhammad is not the father of any man among you, but he is the Messenger of Allaah and the last (end) of the Prophets." - Al-Ahzaab (33):40

And if Muhammad (??? ???? ???? ????) was the last of the Prophets, then he (??? ???? ???? ????) was also the last of the Messengers for there is no Messengership without Prophethood and to this it is said: "Every Messenger is a Prophet but not every Prophet is a Messenger."

Shaykh Muhammad bin Saalih al-`Uthaymeen
Majmoo' Fatawaa wa Rasa'il - Volume One, Number 122
http://www.masjiduthaymeen.org

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