مسلم بن الحجاج
In a well-known hadith reported by Abu Hurayrah, Jabir ibn Abd Allah, Ubayy ibn Ka'b, and Abu Sa‘id al-Khudri, and recorded by al-Bukhari, Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj, al-Tirmidhi, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, al-Nasa'i, and others, Muhammad compared the relationship between himself and the previous prophets to a building missing a single brick. In "Sahih al-Bukhari" it is reported by Abu Hurayrah that Muhammad said, "My similitude in comparison with the prophets before me is that of a man who has built a house nicely and beautifully, except for a place of one brick in a corner. The people go about it and wonder at its beauty, but say: 'Would that this brick be put in its place!' So I am that brick, and I am the seal of the prophets" (fa’anā ’l-labinah, wa anā khātamu ’n-nabīyīn). This hadith is narrated with similar wording in "Sahih Muslim", "Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal", "as-Sunan al-Kubra" of al-Nasa'i, and "Sahih Ibn Hibban". In "Mu'jam al-Awsat", al-Tabarani narrated a variant wording of the hadith with the last statement being, "So I am that [brick], I am the seal of the prophets, there is no prophet after me" ("fa’anā dhālika, anā khātamu ’n-nabīyīn, lā nabīya ba‘dī"). Ibn Hibban also has a variant ending with "I was the place of that brick, with me the [line of] messengers is sealed" ("fakuntu anā mawḍi‘u tilka ’l-labinah, khutima biya ’r-rusul"). In "Sahih Muslim" and "Musnad Ahmad" the hadith is also reported by Jabir ibn Abd Allah, with the last statement being "So I am the place of that brick, I have come and sealed the [line of] prophets" (fa’anā mawḍi‘u ’l-labinah, ji’tu fakhatamtu ’l-anbiyā’). Abu Dawud al-Tayalisi in his "Musnad" has from Jabir, "So I am the place of that brick, with me the [line of] prophets is sealed" ("fa’anā mawḍi‘u ’l-labinah, khutima biya ’l-anbiyā’").