Is the statement of the slave girl, "And among us is a Prophet who knows what will happen tomorrow," disbelief, and did the Prophet (peace be upon him) excuse her due to her ignorance and not declare her a disbeliever, and does the comment that her statement is not disbelief or shirk conform to the creed of the Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jama'ah?

Ibn Hajar inclined to the view that the reason the Prophet, peace be upon him, forbade the young girl from what she said was to prohibit exaggeration in praise and attributing knowledge of the unseen to him, citing as evidence the hadith: "None knows what will happen tomorrow except Allah." He disapproved of her attributing absolute knowledge of the unseen, because it is a characteristic exclusive to Allah Almighty, as in His saying: "Say: 'None in the heavens and earth knows the unseen except Allah.'" And what the Prophet informed of regarding the unseen was through Allah's informing him, not that he independently possessed knowledge of it. Therefore, attributing absolute knowledge of the unseen to the Prophet is forbidden by Islamic law. It has been reported from some scholars that they consider someone who claims the Prophet knows the unseen absolutely to be a disbeliever.