Exegesis of the saying of Allah the Exalted: ((And indeed, Noah called Us, so We were the best of responders))

This phrase is a detail of His saying Here, Allah Mighty and Majestic begins to explain how this misguidance was and when it was. It was from the first messenger Allah sent to the people of the earth, who is Noah (peace be upon him). Noah is the first messenger by the evidence of the Book and the Sunnah. As for the Book, it is His saying the Exalted Therefore, there is no sent prophet before Noah. And His saying the Exalted
[Al-Hadid: 26] So if the prophethood and the Book are in their descendants, then no one before Noah was given prophethood and the Book. The intended meaning of prophethood here is the prophethood of messengership. As for the prophethood of revelation and worship, it preceded with Adam, for Adam was a prophet who was spoken to, but he was not a sent prophet. As for the Sunnah, it is authentic from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) in the hadith of intercession: So Noah (peace be upon him) is the first of the messengers. He remained among his people for a thousand years except fifty years, meaning nine hundred and fifty years, calling them night and day. He called them in secret and in public. But they, may Allah protect us from that, did not increase in that except in aversion and arrogance, despite the strength of the message and the great signs. But they, may Allah protect us from that, were deficient and arrogant, and only a few believed with him. When he (peace be upon him) saw what happened from his people and despaired of them, he called for a curse upon them. And he said: So Allah the Exalted answered his supplication.