Gautama Buddha was a prophet.
The Buddha is also regarded as a prophet by the minority Ahmadiyya sect
 It was also the age of influential thinkers like Mahavira, Praa Kassapa, Makkhali Gosla, Ajita Kesakambal, Pakudha Kaccyana, and Sajaya Belahaputta, as recorded in Samaaphala Sutta, with whose viewpoints the Buddha must have been acquainted

