The agreement of all exacting Qur’anic commentators in expounding the verse, “And the moon is split.” [^27]
[^27]:See, al-Wāḥidī, al-Wajīz fī Tafsīr al-Kitāb al-‘Azīz, i, 370; al-Ṭabarī, Jāmi‘ al-Bayān, xxvii, 84-7; al-Qurtubī, al-Jāmi‘ li-Aḥkām al-Qur’ān, xvii, 126-7; al-Suyūṭī, al-Durr al-Manthūr, vii, 672.
The fact that, relying on numerous different chains of authorities and lines of transmission, all the scholars of the Prophetic Hadiths and transmitters of the sound narrations narrated the event. [^28]
[^28]:See, from, ‘Abdullāh b. Mas’ūd: Bukhārī, Tafsīr 54:1; Muslim, Ṣifāt al-Munāfiqīn, 44-5; Tirmidhī, Tafsīr 54. From, ‘Abdullāh b. ‘Umar: Muslim, Ṣifāt al-Munāfiqīn, 45, 48; Tirmidhī, Tafsīr 54:1. From, ‘Abdullāh b. ‘Abbās: Bukhārī, Manāqib, 27; Manāqib al-Anṣār, 36; Tafsīr 54:1; Muslim, Ṣifāt al-Munāfiqīn, 48. From, Anas b. Mālik: Bukhārī, Manāqib, 27; Tafsīr 54:1; Manāqib al-Anṣār, 36; Muslim, Ṣifāt al-Munāfiqīn, 46; Tirmidhī, Tafsīr 54. From, Hudhayfa ibn al-Yamān: al-Ṭabarī, Jāmi‘ al-Bayān, xxvii, 51; ‘Abd al-Razzāq, al-Muṣannaf, iii, 193-4; Abū Nu’aym, Ḥilyat al-Awliyā’, i, 280-1. From, Jubayr b. Muṭ‘im: Tirmidhī, Tafsīr 54; Musnad, iv, 82; Ibn Ḥibbān, al-Ṣaḥīḥ, xiv, 422.
The testimony of all the saints and the veracious, and those who receive inspiration and uncover the mysteries of the creation.
The confirmation of learned scholars and theologians, whose ways differ greatly from one another.
The fact that the community of Muhammad (UWBP) accepted its occurrence, which, on an established principle, never agrees upon error. [^29]
[^29]:See, Abū Dā’ūd, Fitan wa Malāḥim, 1; Tirmidhī, Fitan, 7; Ibn Māja, Fitan, 7.
These six evidences prove the Splitting of the Moon as clearly as the sun.
Conclusion
CONCLUSION
Up to here the purpose of this Addendum has been to establish the truth, and to silence those enemies who deny it. Its concluding sentences will now be in the name of the truth and for the sake of belief. Indeed, establishing the truth spoke as above, now the truth speaks.
The Seal of the Office of Prophethood (UWBP), who was the luminous moon of its heaven, proved his sainthood through his Ascension. This was the greatest wonder and supreme miracle of sainthood, achieved through his worship, which was so elevated as to make him God’s beloved. That is to say, by travelling with his earthly body through the heavens, his superiority and his being God’s beloved were demonstrated to the dwellers of the heavens and inhabitants of the lofty worlds. So too, by the moon, which is bound to the earth and suspended in the heavens, being split into two halves at the sign of an inhabitant of the earth, a miracle was displayed to the other inhabitants of the earth that demonstrated that earth-dweller’s