And know that it is from God’s mercy upon His creation that He placed at the foot of every prophet a guardian and heir to him, and whatever more, there must be in every era one hundred thousand guardians and twenty-four thousand guardians according to the number of the prophets, and they increase and do not decrease. If they increase, God divides the knowledge of that prophet among those who inherited it. For the knowledge that was revealed to the hearts of the prophets does not rise from the world, and it only belongs to the hearts of men, so it is divided among them according to their number, so there must be in the nation among the saints equal to the number of prophets, and more than that.

We narrated on the authority of Al-Khidr that he said, “There will never be a day.” I thought to myself that there was not a saint of God left on earth except that I had seen him and met with him, so I must meet on that day with a saint of God whom I had not known before .