﴿ وَرُسُلًۭا قَدْ قَصَصْنَٰهُمْ عَلَيْكَ مِن قَبْلُ وَرُسُلًۭا لَّمْ نَقْصُصْهُمْ عَلَيْكَ ۚ وَكَلَّمَ ٱللَّهُ مُوسَىٰ تَكْلِيمًۭا ﴾

“and as [We inspired other] apostles whom We have mentioned to thee ere this, as well as apostles whom We have not mentioned to thee; and as God spoke His word unto Moses:”

And We sent messengers We have told you of before and messengers We have not told you of it is related that God sent eight thousand prophets in total four thousand of them from the Children of Israel and the remaining four thousand from other peoples as stated by the Shaykh Jalāl al-Dīn al-Mahallī in his commentary on sūrat Ghāfir Q. 4078; and God spoke directly without mediation to Moses