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Abu Sayeid Al Khudri narrated that the Prophet said, "Gabriel came to me and said, 'My Lord and your Lord says: Do you know how I have raised your name? When My Name is mentioned, he is mentioned with Me."

Allah says, "Obey Allah and His Messenger" (3:32) and "Believers, believe in Allah and His Messenger" (4:136). Here it is evident that obedience to Allah is connected to our being obedient to His Prophet and notice how his name is mentioned alongside with the Name of Allah.

Note how Allah added the Prophet after Him with the word "and". It is evident and stresses the importance of the Prophet’s favored, prominent status that was not bestowed upon any of the other prophets or messengers of Allah.

Huthaifa informs us that the Prophet said, "No one should say, 'What Allah wills and (wa) so-and-so wills,' rather one should say, 'What Allah wills" and thereafter say, 'then so-and-so wills."

At a gathering in which the Prophet was present, someone spoke saying, "Whosoever obeys Allah and His Messenger has been rightly guided, and whosever disobeys them both …" Whereupon the Prophet stopped him and said, "What a bad speaker you are, get up" or, in another rendering "leave". This was because of his joining Allah and His Prophet by using a dual pronoun.

Abu Sulayman commented it was because, "He disliked the two names being joined together in that way because of the implication of equality." Whereas there is another opinion that what the Prophet disliked was the person stopping at 'whosever disobeys them both.' However, Abu Sulayman's statement is considered to be more correct because it is in compliance with another authentic prophetic saying which reads, "Whosoever disobeys them has erred," without pausing after "… whosoever disobeys them."

Allah says, "Allah, and His angels praise and venerate the Prophet" (33:56). Some have commented whether or not the word "praise" refers to Allah and His angels. Some hold it permissible to refer to both whereas it is forbidden by others on account of the notion of partnership. They consider the pronoun refers to the angels alone and conclude that the verse means "Allah praises and venerates the Prophet, and His angels praise and venerate the Prophet."

The Messenger of Allah
is the one who came with the truth and believed it

The consensus of Islamic scholars upon the verse of Allah that reads, "And