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.
Companion karamahProphetic confirmation signHistorical outcome
A famous classical report from Ibn Umar describes Umar ibn al-Khattab calling during a sermon, “O Sariya, the mountain!” while Sariya commanded an army far away. Later, an army messenger reported that the Muslims had been under severe pressure, heard the same warning, moved so that the mountain protected their rear, and were then granted victory. Ibn Hajar grades the core route hasan, and Ibn Kathir also calls its chain good and hasan.
Umar ibn al-Khattab · PER-000393 · Authentic hadith
Prophetic miracleMercy or blessingLater exegetical explanation
Surah al-Baqarah 2:260 records one of the Qur’an’s most vivid signs of resurrection. Prophet Abraham asked Allah not whether He could raise the dead, but to show him how He gives them life, so that his heart would gain witnessed reassurance. Allah commanded him to take four birds, place portions from them on the mountains, call them, and watch them come to him in haste. The dominant classical tafsir explains that the birds had been slaughtered and divided, then visibly reassembled and returned to life by Allah’s command.
Prophet Abraham (Ibrahim) · PER-000365 · Quran
Revelatory sign or foretellingMercy or blessingHistorical outcomeLater exegetical explanation
The Qur’an tells how honored messengers came to Prophet Abraham with peace and glad tidings. After Abraham welcomed them with a roasted calf, their refusal to eat caused him concern, but they reassured him and announced a learned son. His wife, amazed because she was old and barren and Abraham was also advanced in age, was given the glad tidings of Isaac and, after Isaac, Jacob. The messengers answered her wonder by reminding the household of Allah’s decree, wisdom, mercy, and blessing.
Prophet Abraham (Ibrahim) · PER-000365 · Quran
Historical account
Lata’if al-Minan preserves Abu al-Abbas al-Mursi’s account of a Ramadan night in Qayrawan with his teacher Abu al-Hasan al-Shadhili. It was a Friday night and the twenty-seventh of Ramadan. After spending the night at the congregational mosque, al-Shadhili said the next morning that it had been Laylat al-Qadr and described a dream in which he saw the Prophet and received a spiritual teaching centered on purification, love, knowledge, tawhid, faith, and submission to God.
Abu al-Hasan al-Shadhili · PER-000438 · Early history
Saintly karamahAccepted prayer
Al-Lalaka'i preserves a classical report in which an unnamed man falsely claimed that Habib al-Ajami owed him three hundred dirhams. Habib did not argue publicly with him; he asked him to return, performed ablution and prayer, and made a conditional supplication that the truth be made clear. The report says the claimant was then brought back afflicted on one side, confessed that the debt was invented to embarrass Habib into paying him, promised not to repeat the act, and after Habib prayed for his well-being stood up restored.
Habib al-Ajami · PER-000426 · Early history
Saintly karamah
A named account preserved by Ibn al-Sabbagh from al-Shadhili’s son Sharaf al-Din describes the saint’s final pilgrimage journey and last night at Humaythira. When al-Shadhili asked for water from the local brackish well, he drank from it and had the remaining water returned; his son reports that the well then became sweeter and more abundant. That same night al-Shadhili remained in remembrance of God until before dawn, when he died and was buried at Humaythira.
Abu al-Hasan al-Shadhili · PER-000438 · Early history
Historical account
Latā’if al-Minan preserves a named Shadhili transmission in which Abu Zakariya Yahya al-Bilbisi, after accompanying Abu al-Hasan al-Shadhili, set out for al-Andalus. At their farewell, al-Shadhili instructed him to seek Abu al-Abbas ibn Maknun. When Yahya eventually reached Ibn Maknun, the Andalusian shaykh reportedly greeted him by name despite not having known him before, referred to Yahya’s meeting with the great shaykh, and immediately alluded to the private words al-Shadhili had spoken about him.
Abu al-Hasan al-Shadhili · PER-000438 · Early history
Saintly karamah
Al-Qushayri transmits through a named chain that Ibrahim al-Khawwas became so thirsty during a journey that he collapsed. When water touched his face and he opened his eyes, he saw a handsome rider who gave him water and took him behind him on his mount. After only a short time Madinah was visible, and the rider told him to convey greetings to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, identifying himself in that message as al-Khidr.
Ibrahim al-Khawwas · PER-000437 · Early history
Historical account
Al-Qushayri reports that Bishr al-Hafi entered his house and unexpectedly found a man inside. When Bishr asked who he was and how he had entered without permission, the man identified himself as al-Khidr. Bishr asked for prayer, and two brief supplications followed: that obedience to God be made easy for him and that this obedience be concealed. Earlier classical material in Qut al-Qulub preserves the same core prayer and explains the meaning of concealment.
Bishr al-Hafi · PER-000454 · Early history
Saintly karamah
Several classical biographical works preserve a striking one-line report about Ibrahim ibn Adham: he was said to pluck ripe dates from oak trees. Research shows that the wording is older than Abu Nu'aym's Hilya and already appears in Ibn Abi al-Dunya, who identifies the narrator as Abu al-Nadr al-Harith ibn al-Nu'man. Ibn Asakir and al-Dhahabi later preserve the same substance. The wording is genuinely classical, but its chain is materially disputed and the report provides no time, place, or eyewitness scene.
Ibrahim ibn Adham · PER-000430 · Early history
Divine salvationProphetic confirmation signMoral warningProof against opponentsHistorical outcomeLater exegetical explanation
The Qur’an recounts that Abraham’s opponents, unable to answer his challenge to their idols, decided to burn him in defense of their gods. They prepared a blazing fire and cast him into it. At that moment Allah commanded the fire to become coolness and safety for Abraham, and another Qur’anic passage states plainly that Allah saved him from the fire. Sahih al-Bukhari also preserves Ibn Abbas’s report that Abraham said, “Allah is sufficient for us and He is the best disposer of affairs,” when he was thrown into the fire.
Prophet Abraham (Ibrahim) · PER-000365 · Quran
Prophetic miracleProphetic confirmation signMoral warningProof against opponentsHistorical outcomeLater exegetical explanation
The Qur’an presents the staff of Prophet Moses as one of his clearest prophetic miracles. At the sacred call, his ordinary shepherd’s staff became a living, moving serpent by Allah’s command and was then restored to its former state. Later, before Pharaoh and in a deliberately public contest, the same sign overwhelmed the magicians’ visual deception, swallowed what they had fabricated, and led the expert magicians themselves to prostrate and believe. Their faith remained firm even when Pharaoh threatened mutilation and crucifixion.
Prophet Moses (Musa) · PER-000366 · Quran
