And Ibn Makrun stated in his treatise, within the chapter The Classifications of Islam: 'As for direct gnosis [al-Ma'rifah] regarding the entirety of His manifestations, it is that which we have previously detailed in the chapter on worship, without placing any restriction on His capacity to manifest in alternative forms. For Allah the Exalted has stated: {Say: Though the sea became ink for the Words of my Lord} 1 —signifying His infinite cosmic manifestations—{the sea would assuredly be exhausted before the Words of my Lord were exhausted, even though We brought the like thereof to help} 2 .
The structural intent behind this statement is the absolute impossibility of confining His manifestations to a finite number.
And from the book Kashf al-Mahajjah by al-Sayyid 'Ali ibn Tawus in the chapter of prophethood that he said: Verily the number of the prophets is one hundred thousand and four and twenty thousand, and the number of their successors is likewise, since for every prophet is his successor, so all of them came with the truth from Allah, and verily their speech is the speech of Allah, and their command is the command of Allah,