Browse approved accounts by category and verified person-registry attribution, with evidence levels and original sources. Prophetic miracles, karamat, historical accounts, and modern claims remain terminologically distinct.
Saintly karamah
Sirr al-Asrar wa Mazhar al-Anwar preserves a detailed account linking two moments in the lives of Shaykh Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani and Shaykh Hammad al-Dabbas, may Allah have mercy on them. The story recalls a cold-water trial in 499 AH, when Hammad pushed Abd al-Qadir into the river and Abd al-Qadir endured the ordeal without complaint. Thirty years later, during a long stay at Hammad's grave in al-Shuniziyya, Abd al-Qadir related a vision in which Hammad asked his forgiveness and requested prayer for his right hand. The account continues with the reported restoration of the hand and later confirmations in Baghdad from Yusuf al-Hamadhani and Abd al-Rahman al-Kurdi.
Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · PER-000398 · Later manaqib accounts
Saintly karamahTrial
A classical biographical report preserves an account attributed directly to Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani from his days as a student. During severe poverty and hunger, he said that he heard the voice of an unseen speaker telling him to borrow for his need. He obtained food on credit from a grocer, and later, according to the same account, was directed to a place where he found a large piece of gold and used it to repay the debt.
Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · PER-000398 · Early history
Prophetic miracleProphetic confirmation signMercy or blessing
Sahih al-Bukhari authentically preserves the Prophet Muhammad's statement, peace and blessings be upon him,, “My eyes sleep, but my heart does not sleep.” Aisha, may Allah be pleased with her, records the statement in connection with his sleeping before witr, and the same report appears in another Bukhari placement. Bukhari also preserves the characteristic in an Isra narrative from Anas and states that this is how the prophets are. Classical commentary explains that this special wakefulness of the heart does not mean that the Prophet never slept or that his sleeping eyes perceived every external event.
Prophet Muhammad ﷺ · PER-000001 · Authentic hadith
Prophetic miracleProphetic confirmation signMercy or blessing
Sahih Muslim and Sahih al-Bukhari authentically preserve the Prophet Muhammad’s peace and blessings be upon him teaching that whoever sees him in a dream has truly seen him, because Satan cannot assume his form. Sahih Muslim also preserves a parallel wording that whoever sees the Prophet has seen the truth. The extraordinary feature of the report is therefore the specific protection of the Prophet’s dream-image from satanic impersonation. The hadith does not make every private dream a source of new revelation, law, or doctrine.
Prophet Muhammad ﷺ · PER-000001 · Authentic hadith
Modern scientific or medical claimLater exegetical explanation
Islamic scripture presents the Night Journey and heavenly ascent as a religious event, while a modern interpretive work uses special relativity, time dilation and light-speed language to make aspects of the journey more imaginable to contemporary readers. Einstein’s theory genuinely changes how elapsed time and motion are measured between inertial frames, but it neither discusses Mi‘raj nor supplies historical evidence for it. The sound conclusion is to keep the religious evidence, the modern analogy and the physical theory in separate layers.
Prophet Muhammad ﷺ · PER-000001 · Institutional report
Revelatory sign or foretellingProphetic confirmation signMercy or blessing
Sahih al-Bukhari 1149 and 3679 and Sahih Muslim 2457–2458 preserve reports in which the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ heard the sound of Bilal ibn Rabah’s footsteps or sandals in Paradise. In the Fajr report, the Prophet asked Bilal which deed gave him the greatest hope, and Bilal described his practice of praying after performing ablution. Another Bukhari report explicitly presents the Paradise scene as a dream. The event is therefore best understood as a prophetic vision or disclosure confirming Bilal’s merit, not as an independent karamah performed by Bilal.
Prophet Muhammad ﷺ · PER-000001 · Authentic hadith
Revelatory sign or foretellingProphetic confirmation signRevelation or foretellingTrialHistorical outcome
Sahih al-Bukhari 3695 and Sahih Muslim 2403c preserve the strongest core: the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ gave Uthman ibn Affan glad tidings of Paradise together with notice of a future calamity or trial. A separate report in Jami al-Tirmidhi states more explicitly that Uthman would be killed wrongfully during a fitnah. Other reports warn him not to remove the 'garment' Allah would place upon him if people later pressured him to do so. Uthman was ultimately killed in Medina in 35 AH / 656 CE, forming the historical outcome layer of these earlier foretellings.
Prophet Muhammad ﷺ · PER-000001 · Authentic hadith
Revelatory sign or foretellingProphetic confirmation signRevelation or foretellingTrialHistorical outcome
Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim preserve multiple authentic reports in which the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ foretold that Ammar ibn Yasir رضي الله عنه would be killed by a rebellious group. One Bukhari report places the statement during the construction of the Prophet’s mosque, while Muslim independently preserves the same prediction through Umm Salama رضي الله عنها. Years later Ammar was killed at Siffin while fighting in Ali ibn Abi Talib’s army. The extraordinary core is the fulfilled foretelling; later political interpretation should remain a separate layer.
Prophet Muhammad ﷺ · PER-000001 · Authentic hadith
Revelatory sign or foretellingProphetic confirmation signRevelation or foretellingHistorical outcome
Sahih al-Bukhari 3623–3624 and Sahih Muslim 2450a/2450c preserve the Prophet Muhammad’s final-illness conversation with Fatima and the foretelling that she would be the first of his family to follow him. The first caused her to weep: he told her that Gabriel had reviewed the Qur’an with him twice that year and that he understood this as a sign that his death was near. He also foretold that Fatima would be the first member of his household to follow him after his death. A second private message concerning her elevated rank brought her joy. Bukhari later records that Fatima lived for six months after the Prophet and then died.
Prophet Muhammad ﷺ · PER-000001 · Authentic hadith
Divine salvationProphetic confirmation signSalvation of believersMercy or blessing
The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and Abu Bakr رضي الله عنه taking refuge in the cave during the Hijrah is securely established in Sahih al-Bukhari 3653. Classical reports add that a spider wove at the entrance and two wild pigeons stood at the cave mouth, causing a Quraysh seeker to turn away. The combined spider-and-pigeons route, however, is weak, and the exact al-Bayhaqi wording mentions neither a nest nor eggs. A separate Ibn Abbas route contains only the spider-web detail and is also graded weak. The story is therefore published with the sahih cave core clearly separated from the weaker protective details.
Prophet Muhammad ﷺ · PER-000001 · Early history
Prophetic miracleProphetic confirmation signMercy or blessing
The Mi‘raj was one of the greatest miracles granted to the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. The sahih reports describe a real heavenly ascent with Jibril عليه السلام through the gates of the heavens, meetings with earlier prophets, al-Bayt al-Ma‘mur, Sidrat al-Muntaha, Paradise and signs connected with the Hereafter. Ibn Hajar records the majority position of hadith scholars, jurists and theologians that the Isra and Mi‘raj occurred in wakefulness with the Prophet’s body and soul. At the highest stage Allah revealed directly to the Prophet ﷺ and prescribed fifty daily prayers; after repeated return to his Lord, they were reduced to five while retaining the reward of fifty.
Prophet Muhammad ﷺ · PER-000001 · Authentic hadith
Revelatory sign or foretellingProphetic confirmation signHistorical outcome
Sahih al-Bukhari preserves the Prophet Muhammad's ﷺ foretelling that al-Hasan ibn Ali, may Allah be pleased with him, would be a sayyid and that Allah would bring reconciliation through him between two large groups of Muslims. The same Bukhari report preserves the later conflict setting, peace negotiations, and al-Hasan's conclusion of peace with Muawiya. Parallel reports appear in al-Nasa'i, Abu Dawud, and al-Tirmidhi, with al-Tirmidhi grading his version hasan sahih. Later historical accounts differ over whether the settlement belongs to 40 or early 41 AH, so that dating should remain distinct from the authenticated core prophecy and fulfillment.
Prophet Muhammad ﷺ · PER-000001 · Authentic hadith
