What is the authenticity of the hadith: (I am with Allah the Seal of the Prophets, and Adam is still in his clay) and the hadith: When did you become a Prophet? He said

The Shaykh : Here are three hadiths about which the questioner is asking. The first hadith: al-Hakim and al-Bayhaqi narrated from al-'Arba' ibn Sari'ah who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said . The second hadith: Ahmad, al-Bukhari in his Tarikh, al-Tabarani, al-Hakim, and al-Bayhaqi narrated from Mayasir al-Fajr who said: I said, O Messenger of Allah, when did you become a Prophet? He said . The third: al-Hakim, al-Bayhaqi, and Abu Nu'aym narrated from Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that it was said to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): When was your Prophethood decreed? He said . Ibn al-Jawzi included them in his book al-Wafa, these hadiths, Part 1, page 33. The reality is that these three hadiths are authentic, but they do not indicate what many Muslims today, from their ignorant or negligent ones, or from their scholars, hold. These hadiths do not indicate that the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) was the first thing Allah created. The only thing these hadiths indicate is that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was written with Allah, the Exalted, as a Prophet, and Adam was between the spirit and the body. "Written" does not mean "created" with his body and spirit, and Adam between the spirit and the body. Rather, he was written with Allah, the Exalted, as a Prophet, and Adam was between the spirit and the body. Some of these hadiths are more explicit in indicating this meaning than others. In the first hadith, he says The hadith that follows, the wording "When did you become a Prophet?" in another wording is more explicit: instead of "became," it says "was written." "When were you written as a Prophet?" He answered . The third hadith here: "When was your Prophethood decreed?" He said . Therefore, it is not correct to use this hadith as evidence for the falsehood that the Messenger (peace be upon him) was the first created thing Allah, the Exalted, created. Rather, this hadith indicates that the writing of the Messenger (peace be upon him) as a Prophet with Allah was before the creation of Adam . Therefore, if that is the case, and the hadith has no connection to proving that the Messenger was the first of Allah's creation, as they say and claim, the matter remains as it is agreed upon by all Muslim scholars, from when Allah sent Muhammad (peace be upon him) until the Hour comes, that Muhammad is Muhammad ibn 'Abd Allah ibn 'Abd al-Muttalib. He is preceded by hundreds of fathers before him, and between him and Adam (peace be upon him). So how is it correct to say at that time that the Messenger was the first thing created? In addition to that, this false belief contradicts an authentic hadith, which is his saying (peace be upon him) . This is an authentic hadith narrated by Abu Dawud in his Sunan and Ahmad in his Musnad and others. This is an explicit text in determining the first created thing, where he (peace be upon him) said . This pen is the one that wrote that the Messenger (peace be upon him) is a Prophet . So even his writing as a Prophet with Allah is later than the first created thing, let alone his self (peace be upon him) with his body and spirit. Therefore, it is regrettable that voices are raised on minarets and pulpits with this false belief, which is that he (peace be upon him) was the first created thing. This is in reality something that makes us feel the distance of Muslims from studying the Sunnah and studying the Prophetic hadith, and from knowing what is authentic and what is not, until they cling to every hadith that reaches their ears or every hadith they read in a book from the thousands of books printed by printing presses without any scientific supervision whatsoever. They claim that the Messenger (peace be upon him) said "O Jabir, the first thing Allah created was the light of your Prophet". This has no basis whatsoever in the books of the Sunnah, and it does not exist in any book of hadith, not the six famous books: al-Bukhari, Muslim, the Sunan of Abu Dawud, al-Tirmidhi, al-Nasa'i, and Ibn Majah, and the other books of hadith, and these are the most famous, which are the six. This hadith has no basis in any of them, nor in the sixty books, nor the six hundred. All these books did not narrate this hadith, even with a fabricated, false chain. This hadith has no origin. Despite that, they relied on it and struck against the authentic hadith as we mentioned. And when one of them feels that the hadith about the creation of the Messenger (peace be upon him) and the creation of his light truly has no basis or existence at all, they resort to these hadiths which we began answering, and which are in reality authentic hadiths, but they do not indicate the meaning they hold and use as evidence for it, which is the hadith . These three hadiths have no connection or relation to the hadith of Jabir at all. Rather, they contain that Allah, the Exalted, wrote with Him that the Messenger is a Prophet, chosen and selected, and Adam is in his clay. This is what is available in the answer to these three hadiths.