Allah is All-Wise and All-Knowing; He alone decides whom to choose for His blessings and favors.

However, some scholars such as Imam Qurtubi have stated, based on their meditations on the relevant verses in the Qur’an, that Allah chose to send more prophets to the people of the book than any other nation on the face of the earth because of their rebellious nature. The Qur’an makes it abundantly clear that they were a hard-necked people given into much rebellion and acts of disobedience. Therefore, it is akin to the case of assigning more physicians to a population with the greater number of sick people. Allah knows best.