And it is necessary to confess that God has aided them with miracles (_mu‘jizat_) and that He has distinguished our Prophet in that he is the seal of the Apostles, and that his law (_shar_) will not be abrogated till time is fulfilled. And Isa, after his descent, will judge according to the law of our Prophet. It is said that he will take it from the Qur’an and the Sunna. It is said also that he will go to the Glorious Tomb [of Muhammad] and learn from him. And know that he will abrogate one part of the law of our Prophet with a later part, just as the waiting period of a woman after the death of her husband was changed from a year to four months and ten days. And in this there is no defect. And it is necessary also that every _mukallaf_, male and female, should know in detail the Apostles who are mentioned in the Qur’an, and should believe in them in detail. As for the other Prophets, belief is necessary in them as a whole. As-Sa‘d handed down an authority in his commentary on the _Maqasid_ that belief in all the Prophets as a whole suffices, but he was not followed. And someone put them into verse as follows: “There is imposed upon every _mukallaf_ a knowledge Of Prophets in detail, who have been named In that document of ours [_i.e._, the Qur’an]. Of them are eight After ten [_i.e._, eighteen]. And there remain seven who are Idris, Hud, Shu‘ayb, Salih, and similarly, Dhu-l-Kifl, Adam, with the Chosen One [Muhammad] they close.” And it is necessary to confess that the Companions (_sahibs_) of the Prophet are the most excellent of the generations. Then their followers (_tabi‘s_); then the followers of their followers. And the most excellent of the Companions is Abu Bakr, then Umar, then Uthman, then Ali—in this order. But al-Alqami said that our Lady Fatima and her brother, our Lord Ibrahim, were absolutely more excellent than the Companions, including the Four [Khalifas]. And our Lord Malik [ibn Anas] was wont to say, “There is none more excellent than the children of the Prophet.” This is that the confession of which is incumbent; and we will meet God confessing it, if it is His Will.