By Muhammad ibn ʿAli al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi
Translated by Muzzammil Husayn
The following is a translated quote from Hakim al-Tirmidhi’s (d. 320) Kitab Khatm al-Awliya in which he offers a similar deeper significance to “Khatam al-Nabiyyin” and denounces the opinion that it only entails chronological finality in much the same way as Mawlana Nanautwi.
A speaker said to him [al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi]: What is the Seal of Prophethood?
