Who is the last prophet in Islam?

Muhammad is the last prophet in Islam. Muslims call him the Seal of the Prophets, meaning that prophethood reaches its final completion with him.

Islamic tradition holds that Muhammad began receiving revelation from God around 610 CE, when he was 40 years old and meditating in the Cave of Hira near Mecca. These revelations continued for about 23 years and became the Qur'an, Islam's central scripture. Muhammad preached monotheism, moral accountability, charity, and worship of the one God.

He was born in Mecca around 570 CE and later migrated with his followers to Medina in 622 CE. This migration, known as the Hijra, marks the beginning of the Islamic calendar. By the time of his death in Medina in 632 CE, Islam had spread across much of Arabia.

Muhammad is not considered the founder of a completely new prophetic message in Islamic theology. Rather, Muslims believe he confirmed and completed the same core faith taught by earlier prophets such as Adam, Ibrahim, Musa, and Isa. A common mix-up is to identify Isa as the final prophet; in Islam, Isa is an earlier prophet, while Muhammad is the last.