Was luqman a prophet

Answer 1

No he was not a prophet

but a whole chapter is

named after him because

of his wisdom. The hadith you are

referring to is different

then what I know,

Luqman already had

wisdom. An angel came

to him (Not sure if it was Gibrael forgot) and asked

if he wanted to be a

prophet and he declined

because of all the

responsibilities. It is not

a very strong hadith but it does not mean its

weak. Instead, the

prophethood went to

Dawood who was alive

during the same time. He was just a very wise

man, an African man. A

story about him, Luqman

was actually not very

attractive and a man

made a comment and called him ugly, and

Luqman replied with pure

wisdom and said "Are

you making fun of me or

the creator?" and the

man could not answer. Another story of Luqman

is when he is with his son

and they are travelling

with a donkey/horse and

Luqman was riding the

the animal and came across people and the

people said, look at that

man, riding the animal

while making his son

walk. So Luqman and his

son swapped places and came across people who

said, look the father

walks and the son is on

top. Then both of them

went on and another

group saw that and said, look at that poor animal.

They both went off and

all walked and the final

group said look, they

have an animal and no

one is riding it. After Luqman told his

son, look, no matter

what you do you will

never please everyone.