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THE ORDER OF
ALLAHS FIRST
CREATIONS

BY ABDUL KAREEM
IBN OZZIE
Many Muslim people have become confused concerning the issue
who or what was the firs creation due to a number of seemingly
conflicting verse from the Quran, hadeeth and explanations of the
scholars.

The aim of this article is to show that verses and the authentic
hadeeth of this religion never contradict each other and there is no
need for confusion on this issue.

In Bukhari, Bayhaqi, and ibn Al-Jaroud reported from

Umran Ibn Haseen that the people of Yemen came to
Prophet Mohammed and said: O Prophet of Allah we came
to you to learn about our religion and to ask you about the
Beginning of this thing, how was it? So he replied: It was
Allah, and nothing else, and His Throne was on the water,
and he (Allah created the pen then he) wrote in the Book
(Al-Lawh Al-Mahfuth (the preserved tablet)) all things and
then he created the heavens and the earth”.

This hadeeth indicates the order of Allahs first creations:

1. Allah created water first. The prophet said, ‘everything was

created from water’…” recorder by Imam Ahmed, this chain
of narration fulfils the conditions of the Bukhari and Muslim,
apart from Abu Maymunah, but he is one of the men of the
Sunans, his first name was Salim; and At-Tirmidhi classed him
as Saheeh. Imam As-Suddi narrated in his tafsir narrated from
Ibn Abbas that he said “Allah the Exalted did not create
anything before the water”.

2. Then Allah created his throne above the water (Ibn Hajar said in
the explanation of Bukhari that this hadeeth indicated that water
was the first creation and then Allah created the throne.)
 3. Then Allah created the pen to write all things. The Prophet
said, “The first thing (meaning after the water and the
throne as indicated in the above hadeeths) created by
Allah was the pen, then, He ordered it to write, so it
wrote everything that will happen till the Day of
Judgment.” Recorded by At-Tirmidhee, Abu-Dawood, and
Ahmad also this hadeeth is recorded in another way by
Bukhari.

4. Then Allah created the Al-Lawh Al-Mahfuth (the preserved

tablet) to write every thing in it. All things (events for all the
creation: past events, present events, and future events) have
been written down (exactly how they will/have/or are been
decreed) in the Preserved Tablet (Al-Lauh Al-Mahfuz) this is
based on Allahs saying, “No calamity befalls on the
earth or in yourselves but is inscribed in the Book of
Decrees (Al-Lawh Al-Mahfuth), before We bring it into
existence. Verily, that is easy for Allah”. Quran 57:22

5. Then Allah created the heavens and the earth. The prophet
said in Saheeh Bukhari “he (Allah created the pen then
he) wrote in the Book (Al-Lawh Al-Mahfuth (the
preserved tablet)) all things and then he created the
heavens and the earth”

Side Point

Was The Prophet Mohammed The First Thing To Be Created?

The famous hadeeth of Jabir indicates that the prophet Mohammed

was the first thing to be created.

The prophet said, “The first thing that Allah created was
the light of your Prophet, O Jabir”
However Shaykh Albaani said this hadeeth and other similar ones
are false in his al-Silsilah al-Saheehah (458).

Shaykh Abdullah Al-Ghumari said in his “Murshid Al-Hair li

Bayan Wad’ Hadeeth Jabir” and he said, “this is a fabricated hadeeth
that has no basis in the books of Sunnah.”