The first prophet of God: Adam Abu al-Bashar or Prophet Noah (AS)

Citing verse "( All )people are a single nation; so Allah raised prophets as bearers of good news and as warners, and He revealed with them the Book with truth, that it might judge between people in that in which they differed" (2:213), some scholars reject the prophecy of Adam and consider Noah (AS) as the first prophet of God. Because the first people lived in the same way and religion that they did not need a prophet (external argument) when unresolved differences arose with the rule of intellect judgement (internal argument), God began the raising of the prophets by sending Prophet Noah (AS). The verses “He has made plain to you of the religion what He enjoined upon Nuh and that which We have revealed to you” (42: 13) and “Surely We have revealed to you as We revealed to Nuh, and the prophets after him” as well as authentic hadiths explain it. The present study, while examining the reasons of this group of scholars, by reflecting on the verses of the Qur'an and studying the hadiths, has criticized and evaluated the prophethood of Adam Abu al-Bashar with the components proposed for the arising and prophethood of the prophets.