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.
Prophetic miracleProphetic confirmation signProof against opponents
A strong classical report from Ibn Umar describes a Bedouin meeting the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ during a journey and asking for a witness to his message. The Prophet called a tree from the side of the valley; it came to him, testified three times that he was truthful, and returned to its place. Ibn Kathir calls the chain good, al-Haythami says its transmitters are transmitters of the Sahih, and Ibn Hibban includes it in his Sahih. A separate Rukana story also describes a tree coming and returning on command, but that exact route is mursal.
Prophet Muhammad ﷺ · PER-000001 · Authentic hadith
Prophetic miracleProphetic confirmation signAccepted prayerHistorical outcome
A classical report from Asma bint Umays says that Ali ibn Abi Talib had not prayed Asr before sunset while attending the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. Al-Tahawi preserves two routes in which the Prophet supplicates to Allah and the sun is then described as becoming visible again so Ali can pray. The report became a well-known sign-of-prophethood narrative, but hadith critics disagreed sharply over its authenticity: Ibn al-Iraqi graded one route hasan, while Ibn Kathir rejected the report as objectionable through all its routes.
Prophet Muhammad ﷺ · PER-000001 · Authentic hadith
Revelatory sign or foretellingRevelation or foretelling
Surah al-Fath confirms the Prophet’s true vision of entering the Sacred Mosque. Sahih al-Bukhari shows its direct historical fulfilment in the following year’s ‘Umrat al-Qada, when the Prophet ﷺ and his Companions entered Makkah and performed the rites. The Conquest of Makkah came later as a separate greater victory, when he recited Surah al-Fath and prayed inside the Ka‘bah.
Prophet Muhammad ﷺ · PER-000001 · Quran
Saintly karamahAccepted prayerHistorical outcome
Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah preserves a report that Ali ibn Abi Talib, may Allah be pleased with him, passed a house being built in an area associated with the tribe of Murad. A piece of brick or building material fell from the structure, struck him, and wounded his head. Ali then prayed that the building would not be completed, and the report continues that no further brick was placed upon it and it remained unlike completed houses. The same episode was later preserved by Ibn Abi al-Dunya and other classical authors.
Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib · PER-000005 · Authentic hadith
Saintly karamahDivine punishmentAccepted prayerHistorical outcome
Al-Lalaka'i preserves a report among the karamat of Ali ibn Abi Talib, may Allah be pleased with him, about a man who disputed a hadith or statement in Ali's presence. Ali told him that he appeared to have lied and asked whether he should supplicate to Allah against him if he had lied. The man accepted the challenge, Ali supplicated, and the report says the man became blind before leaving the gathering. Ibn Abi al-Dunya, al-Tabarani, and Ahmad's Fada'il al-Sahaba also preserve forms of the same basic event.
Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib · PER-000005 · Later manaqib accounts
Saintly karamahRevelation or foretellingHistorical outcome
Al-Ajurri preserves a report from the final days of Ali ibn Abi Talib, may Allah be pleased with him, in which Ali saw the Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, in a dream and spoke of the hardship he had faced from his people. The Prophet is then reported to have told him to supplicate, and Ali prayed that Allah replace his people for him with better people and replace him for them with someone worse than him. The account then moves directly to the morning prayer, when Ali went out and was attacked. A shorter form of the same story is also preserved by Ibn Abi al-Dunya and al-Lalaka'i.
Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib · PER-000005 · Early history
Saintly karamahHistorical outcome
Sahih al-Bukhari records that on the day of Khaybar the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ gave the banner to Ali ibn Abi Talib, may Allah be pleased with him, and that Allah granted victory through his hands. A separate report from Abu Rafi, preserved in Musnad Ahmad and al-Bayhaqi, says that during the fighting Ali lost his shield, took a door from the fortress, and used it as a shield until victory. The same report says that after Ali put the door down, Abu Rafi and seven other men tried to turn it over but could not. Other reports give larger numbers, but those are separate versions and are not merged into the Abu Rafi account here.
Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib · PER-000005 · Early history
Saintly karamahMercy or blessingHistorical outcome
Classical sources preserve a well-known report that Ali ibn Abi Talib, may Allah be pleased with him, was born inside the Kaaba in Mecca. Al-Hakim records that reports of the birth had become widely transmitted, while al-Mufid also places the birth in the Sacred House. In a more detailed report preserved by al-Saduq, Fatima bint Asad enters through an opening in the rear wall of the Kaaba, the wall closes again, and those present are unable to open the door. The same report then describes her emerging carrying Ali ibn Abi Talib.
Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib · PER-000005 · Early history
Saintly karamahDivine punishmentAccepted prayerHistorical outcome
Al-Lalaka'i preserves a Karbala report in which a hostile man approached Husayn ibn Ali, may Allah be pleased with him, and told him to expect the Fire. Husayn rejected the man's words and replied that he was going to a merciful or forgiving Lord and to an accepted intercessor. He then prayed concerning the man, with al-Lalaka'i's version giving the prayer in a conditional form if the man was lying. The report says that the man's horse then threw him, his leg remained caught in the stirrup, and he was dragged until he died. Similar forms of the incident also appear in other classical works, but this retelling follows al-Lalaka'i's account as the main narrative.
Imam Husayn ibn Ali · PER-000007 · Later manaqib accounts
Saintly karamahDivine punishmentHistorical outcome
Early and classical Sunni sources preserve a report about a man returning from Kufa after the killing of Husayn ibn Ali may Allah be pleased with him who spoke mockingly or abusively about Husayn. The report says that two star-like or luminous objects struck his eyes and destroyed his sight. Ibn Sa'd preserves an early route through Qurra ibn Khalid from Abu Raja al-Ataridi, while Ahmad, al-Tabarani, and al-Lalaka'i preserve close parallels. A variant explicitly has Abu Raja say that he personally saw the blinded man, and classical graders describe the route's transmitters positively.
Imam Husayn ibn Ali · PER-000007 · Later manaqib accounts
Saintly karamahDivine punishmentHistorical outcome
A classical report preserved by al-Lalaka'i describes an unnamed man who admitted that he had been among those who looted Husayn ibn Ali may Allah be pleased with him and his companions. The man was noticed using perfume while a smell like tar still overpowered him. He then related a frightening dream in which he was thirsty, saw the Prophet Muhammad peace and blessings be upon him near water, was identified as one of those who had looted Husayn, and was given tar instead of water. He claimed that the tar-like smell remained after he woke. The report is preserved as a karamah connected with Husayn, but the exact dream-and-odor sequence rests essentially on one report family with an anonymous subject.
Imam Husayn ibn Ali · PER-000007 · Early history
Saintly karamahMercy or blessingProof against opponentsHistorical outcome
Al-Kafi preserves a Twelver Imami report set in Mecca after the martyrdom of Imam al-Husayn, peace be upon him. Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyya and Imam Ali ibn al-Husayn, peace be upon him, brought their disagreement over succession and Imamate before the Black Stone. Muhammad prayed and addressed the Stone, but no reply is reported. Imam Ali ibn al-Husayn then supplicated, whereupon the Stone moved and, according to the report, Allah caused it to speak in clear Arabic and testify for his succession after Imam al-Husayn. The story ends with Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyya acknowledging him.
Imam Ali Zayn al-Abidin · PER-000011 · Later manaqib accounts
