and al-ʿAynī in "al-ʿUmda" (7/307), among others. The researcher al-Ālūsī said in his "Tafsīr" (5/449): "Ibn al-Jawzī claimed it is fabricated, but it is not so. Yes, it is said: its isnād is weak but supported by follow-up." He was preceded in this and in refuting Ibn al-Jawzī by al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar in "Takhrīj al-Kashshāf" (4/114), and this is what the diligent researcher cannot avoid, as you see in our takhrīj here, and all praise is due to Allāh. There are other ḥadīths regarding the number of prophets, which generally agree with the previous ḥadīths that their number is greater than the number of messengers. They are narrated from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī and from Anas ibn Mālik through various chains, found with Abū Yaʿlá, al-Ṭabarānī, and al-Ḥākim. We might dedicate ourselves to tracing them and authenticating them in their appropriate place at another opportunity, if Allāh wills. Then I authenticated them in "al-Ḍaʿīfa" under number (6090). Know that the ḥadīth and what we mentioned of other ḥadīths indicate the distinction between a messenger and a prophet, which is also indicated by the Quran in His saying: *"And We did not send before you any messenger or prophet except that when he spoke, Satan threw into his speech"* (Sūrah Al-Ḥajj, verse 52). This is the view of the majority of the commentators, from the imam Ibn Jarīr al-Ṭabarī to the last of the researchers al-Ālūsī. It is what Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah decisively stated in various places in his fatāwá (Majmūʿ 10/290 and 18/7) that every messenger is a prophet, but not every prophet is a messenger. Al-Qurṭubī said in his "Tafsīr" (12/80):