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 karamahAccepted prayerMercy or blessing
Sahih al-Bukhari 6502 gives the canonical foundation for this candidate: a servant draws near to Allah through obligatory duties and then voluntary deeds until Allah loves him. The hadith then speaks of Allah supporting the beloved servant's hearing, sight, hand, and foot, and promises response when he asks and protection when he seeks refuge. Sirr al-Asrar preserves a shortened later wording that also adds the tongue. That tongue element is not part of the canonical Bukhari text and should remain a later literary variant rather than be quoted as Bukhari verbatim.
Saints and People of the Spiritual Path (General) · PER-000411 · Peer-reviewed research
Companion karamahDivine punishmentAccepted prayerHistorical outcome
Al-Lalaka'i preserves a report in which Abu Qilaba, while traveling in Syria, encountered a blind man who had lost his hands and legs. The man said that he had been among those who entered the house of Uthman ibn Affan, may Allah be pleased with him, during the siege, and that he struck Uthman’s wife when she came out. He then recalled that Uthman prayed that Allah take away his hands, legs and sight and enter him into the Fire. According to the man’s own account, he later found himself without his hands and legs and blind, and he understood his condition as the fulfillment of Uthman’s prayer. Al-Lalaka'i included the report among the karamat of Uthman.
Uthman ibn Affan · PER-000402 · Later manaqib accounts
Companion karamahDivine punishmentHistorical outcome
Classical Sunni sources preserve a report that a man called Jahjah al-Ghifari took a staff from Uthman ibn Affan, may Allah be pleased with him, while Uthman was on the pulpit and broke it. The reports then say that Jahjah was struck by an affliction called al-akila. Some versions place it in his knee, while a report from Ibn Umar preserved by Abu Nu'aym places it in his hand and adds that he died before a year had passed. Classical authors included the episode among extraordinary signs associated with Uthman.
Uthman ibn Affan · PER-000402 · Later manaqib accounts
Companion karamahAccepted prayerMercy or blessing
Ibn Abi al-Dunya preserves a report from the time of Umar ibn al-Khattab, may Allah be pleased with him, when the people were suffering from severe drought. According to the account, Umar led the people in two rak'ahs for rain, turned his cloak, asked Allah for forgiveness and rain, and rain fell before the gathering dispersed. The report then says that Bedouins came to Umar and described a cloud that had shaded them, from which they heard a voice announcing relief for Abu Hafs, Umar’s well-known kunya. Al-Lalaka'i and Ibn Kathir also preserve the same memorable account in later works.
Umar ibn al-Khattab · PER-000393 · Later manaqib accounts
Companion karamahHistorical outcome
Sahih al-Bukhari preserves Ibn Umar's statement that when Umar ibn al-Khattab, may Allah be pleased with him, expressed a judgment about something, events repeatedly turned out as he had thought. The same report gives a concrete example: Umar suspected that a passing Muslim man had served as his people's soothsayer before Islam, and the man confirmed it. A separate sahih Prophetic report describes Umar in connection with the muhaddathun, while Ibn Hajar explains this as inspired or truthful insight without prophethood. Supporting reports also preserve several famous instances in which Umar's judgments corresponded with later Qur'anic revelation, without establishing infallibility or revelation for Umar himself.
Umar ibn al-Khattab · PER-000393 · Authentic hadith
Companion karamahRevelation or foretellingHistorical outcome
A report in Malik’s al-Muwatta records that, during his final illness, Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, may Allah be pleased with him, told Aisha, may Allah be pleased with her, that the unborn child carried by Bint Kharija was, in his judgment, a girl, saying: “araha jariyatan” — “I think she is a girl.” An early recension of the Muwatta adds that a girl was later born, while al-Lalaka’i identifies her as Umm Kulthum and explicitly treats the fulfilled intuition as a karamah. The report should remain a fulfilled intuition, not be presented as Prophetic revelation, independent knowledge of the unseen, or a medical prediction.
Abu Bakr al-Siddiq · PER-000387 · Later manaqib accounts
Divine salvationSalvation of believersMercy or blessingHistorical outcome
Sahih al-Bukhari preserves the full story of Hajar and the infant Isma‘il in the barren valley of Mecca. Ibrahim left them near the Sacred House with a small supply of dates and water. When Hajar learned that this was Allah’s command, she trusted that Allah would not neglect them. After the water was exhausted, she searched desperately between Safa and Marwah seven times. At the place of Zamzam an angel struck or dug the ground with his heel or wing until water appeared. Hajar drank, nursed her child, and was reassured that Allah would not neglect the people of that place. Later Jurhum discovered the water and settled nearby with her permission.
Hajar (Hagar) · PER-000381 · Quran
Prophetic miracleProphetic confirmation signMoral warningProof against opponents
Sahih al-Bukhari preserves an extraordinary event in which Allah publicly cleared Prophet Musa of a harmful bodily accusation. Musa was exceptionally modest and bathed in seclusion. Some among Bani Israel turned that modesty into suspicion and attributed a bodily defect to him. During one private bath, Musa placed his clothes on a stone; the stone moved away carrying them, and Musa pursued it until the accusation was publicly disproved. Bukhari explicitly connects this vindication with Qur’an 33:69, while a second sahih route independently confirms the moving-stone core.
Prophet Moses (Musa) · PER-000366 · Authentic hadith
Accepted prophetic prayerProphetic confirmation signAccepted prayerTrialMoral warningMercy or blessing
The Qur’an recounts a striking request from the disciples of Prophet Isa عليه السلام: they asked for a table spread from heaven so they could eat from it, have their hearts reassured, know that Isa had spoken truthfully, and become witnesses to the sign. Isa first told them to fear Allah, then prayed that the table become a feast for the first and last of them, a sign from Allah, and provision. Allah answered that He would send it down, while attaching an exceptional warning against disbelief afterward. Major classical exegetes understand the divine response as the actual descent of the table.
Prophet Jesus (Isa) · PER-000378 · Quran
Divine salvationSalvation of believersMercy or blessingProof against opponentsHistorical outcome
The Qur’an tells of believing youths who stood firm against their people’s worship of other deities, withdrew to a cave, and prayed for mercy and right guidance. Allah answered with extraordinary protection: He caused them to sleep for many years, preserved them in the cave, and later awakened them. Thinking they had stayed only a day or part of a day, they sent one companion with a silver coin to the city for food and warned him to remain hidden because discovery could mean stoning or forced return to the old religion. Their eventual discovery became a public sign that Allah’s promise is true and that the Hour is beyond doubt.
People of the Cave · PER-000379 · Quran
Revelatory sign or foretellingProphetic confirmation signRevelation or foretellingProof against opponents
Among the signs Prophet Isa عليه السلام presented to the Children of Israel, the Qur’an records an unusual form of knowledge: he would inform them about what they ate and what they stored inside their houses. The same verse places this knowledge beside his other prophetic signs and says that in these matters was a sign for those willing to believe. Classical tafsir explains the household information as private matters Isa had not ordinarily witnessed and which Allah enabled him to know, while later narrative expansions are not part of the Qur’an’s explicit wording.
Prophet Jesus (Isa) · PER-000378 · Quran
Prophetic miracleProphetic confirmation signMercy or blessingProof against opponents
The Qur’an presents Prophet Isa giving life to the dead as one of the clearest signs of his mission to the Children of Israel. In Ali ‘Imran 3:49, Isa explicitly says that he gives life to the dead by Allah’s permission. Al-Ma’idah 5:110 later recalls the same act as one of Allah’s favors and again repeats the divine-permission boundary. The miracle therefore supports prophethood without implying independent power. The surrounding verses connect these signs to obedience to Allah’s messenger, worship of Allah alone, and the straight path.
Prophet Jesus (Isa) · PER-000378 · Quran
