Is it the case that one whom Allah has honored with visions and inspirations that come true shares with the prophets in these characteristics, after the cessation of prophethood and the persistence of its glad tidings?

The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "Nothing remains of prophethood except the glad tidings." They asked: "And what are the glad tidings?" He replied: "The righteous dream." A good dream from a righteous man or a dream of a believer is one of forty-six parts of prophethood. This does not mean that the dream's recipient shares in prophethood and revelation with the prophets.

Scholars have differed in their interpretation of the Hadith: 1. Al-Khattabi: The dream is a part of prophethood for the prophets who received revelation in their sleep. Its parts were specified by the mentioned number because revelation began in a dream six months in Mecca, and this is a part of the prophetic period which lasted 23 years (13 in Mecca and 10 in Medina). 2. Some scholars: The dream comes in agreement with prophethood, and is not a remaining part of it. 3. Others: It is a part of the remaining parts of the science of prophethood, and prophethood does not remain after the Messenger, peace and blessings be upon him, as confirmed by his saying: "Prophethood has departed, and only the glad tidings remain: the righteous dream." 4. Ibn Battal: Prophethood and inba’ (informing) mean conveying information. The dream is a truthful informing from Allah with no falsehood in it, just as prophethood is a truthful informing with no falsehood in it. Thus, the dream resembled prophethood in the truthfulness of the news about the unseen. 5. Al-Mazari (in Fath al-Bari by Ibn Hajar): Prophethood in the Hadith means news of the unseen, which is one of the fruits of prophethood, and the prophet's news of the unseen is truthful and real.