The Noble Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) was born in the Year of the Elephant. This hadith is narrated from Abdullah bin Abbas and Qais bin Makhramah (may Allah be pleased with them).

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him), he says that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Buraq was brought to me, it was an animal white in color, larger than a donkey and smaller than a mule, long in stature, it would place its hoof where its gaze would reach. I mounted it (and set off) until I reached Bayt al-Maqdis (Jerusalem). I tied it to the ring to which the other Prophets would tie their animals. Then I entered the mosque and prayed two rak‘ahs. When I came out, Jibril (peace be upon him) brought a vessel of wine and a vessel of milk. I chose the milk. Jibril said: You have chosen the natural disposition (fitrah). Then we were raised towards the heavens. (When we reached there) Jibril (peace be upon him) asked for the door to be opened. It was said: Who is it? He said: Jibril. Then it was said: Who is with you? He said: Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). It was said: Has he been called? He said: (Yes) he has been called. Then the door was opened for us. I saw Adam (peace be upon him), he welcomed me and prayed for me. Then we were raised to the second heaven. Jibril asked for the door to be opened. It was asked: Who is it? He said: Jibril. The angels asked: Who is with you? He said: Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). The angels said: Has he been called? Jibril said: (Yes!) He has been called. Then the door was opened for us. I saw the maternal cousins, ‘Isa bin Maryam and Yahya bin Zakariyya (peace be upon them), both welcomed me and prayed for my well-being. Then we were raised to the third heaven. Jibril (peace be upon him) asked for the door to be opened. The angels asked: Who? He said: Jibril. The angels asked: Who is with you? He said: Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). It was said: Has he been called? Jibril said: Yes! He has been called. So the door was opened for us. There I saw Yusuf (peace be upon him), (from his beauty it was apparent that) half of all beauty had been given to him. He welcomed me and prayed for my well-being. Then we were raised to the fourth heaven. Jibril asked for the door to be opened. It was asked: Who? He said: Jibril. Then it was asked: Who is with you? He said: Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). It was said: Has he been called? He said: Yes! He has been called. Then the door was opened for us. There I saw Idris (peace be upon him), he welcomed me and prayed for my well-being. Allah the Exalted said: And We raised him to a high station. Then we were raised to the fifth heaven, and the request for the door to be opened was made. It was said: Who? He said: I am Jibril. It was said: Who is with you? He said: Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). It was asked: Has he been called? Jibril replied: Yes! He has been called. Then the door was opened for us. There I saw Harun (peace be upon him), he welcomed me and prayed for my well-being. Then we were raised to the sixth heaven and the request for the door to be opened was made. It was said: Who? He said: Jibril. It was said: Who is with you? He said: Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). Then it was asked: Has he been called? He said: Yes! So the door was opened for us. There I saw Musa (peace be upon him). He welcomed me and prayed for my well-being. Then we were raised to the seventh heaven and the request for the door to be opened was made. It was asked: Who? He said: Jibril. It was said: Who is with you? He said: Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). It was said: Has he been called? Jibril (peace be upon him) said: Yes! He has been called. So the door was opened. I saw Ibrahim (peace be upon him). He was reclining against the Bayt al-Ma‘mur. (The state of Bayt al-Ma‘mur is such that) every day seventy thousand angels enter it and never return to it again. Then Jibril took me to Sidrat al-Muntaha, its leaves were like the ears of elephants and its fruits like large jars. When it was covered by the command of Allah, (its state) changed in such a way that none among creation can describe its beauty. Then Allah the Exalted revealed to me and made fifty prayers obligatory every day and night. I returned and came to Musa (peace be upon him), he asked: What has your Lord enjoined upon your Ummah? I said: Fifty prayers. Sayyiduna Musa (peace be upon him) said: Go back to your Lord and ask for a reduction, your Ummah will not be able to bear it, I have tested the Children of Israel and experienced them. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: So I returned to my Lord and said: O my Lord! Please reduce (the command of prayers) for my Ummah. So Allah the Exalted reduced five prayers. Then I returned to Musa (peace be upon him) and informed him that five prayers had been reduced for me. He said: Your Ummah will not be able to bear even this, so go back to your Lord and ask for further reduction. You said: I kept going back and forth between my Lord and Musa, until Allah the Exalted said: O Muhammad! Five prayers are obligatory every day and night, each prayer is worth ten prayers in reward, (in this way) they become fifty prayers. (And listen further) whoever intends to do a good deed but does not do it, one good deed will be written for him, and if he does it, tenfold reward will be written for him. And whoever intends to do an evil deed but does not commit it, nothing will be written against him, and if he commits it, only one evil deed will be written for him. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: I descended and came to Musa (peace be upon him) and informed him (of the whole situation). He again said: Go back to your Lord and ask for further reduction. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: I said: I have returned to my Lord (again and again) so much that now I feel shy before my Lord."

Ibn Buraidah narrates from his father that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "When we reached Bayt al-Maqdis, Jibril made a hole in the stone with his finger and tied al-Buraq to it."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The night I was taken on the Mi'raj (Ascension), and in the morning I was in Makkah, I was anxious, because I knew that people would belie me." So, you sat aside, worried. Meanwhile, the enemy of Allah, Abu Jahl, passed by there. He came and sat next to you (peace and blessings be upon him) and, mocking, said: "Has something happened?" You (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Yes." He said: "What happened?" You (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Tonight, I was taken on a journey." Abu Jahl said: "To where?" You (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "To Bayt al-Maqdis." Abu Jahl said: "Then you reached us here in the morning as well?" You (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Yes." Abu Jahl did not belie you at that moment, lest when he gathered the people and you (peace and blessings be upon him) denied it, so Abu Jahl said: "If I call your people, will you tell them this?" You (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Yes." Abu Jahl called out: "O Banu Ka'b bin Lu'ayy, come!" (As soon as they heard this call,) people arrived and sat down with them. Abu Jahl said to you (peace and blessings be upon him): "Tell them what you told me." You (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I was taken on a journey tonight." The people asked: "Where to?" You (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "To Bayt al-Maqdis." The people said: "Then you returned here (to Makkah) in the morning as well?" You (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Yes." Hearing this, some started clapping and others, astonished at this claim, put their hands on their heads. Since some people had traveled to that city and seen the (Aqsa) Mosque, they said: "Can you describe for us the characteristics of Masjid al-Aqsa?" The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I began to describe its features, I kept explaining, but some signs became confused for me, so Masjid al-Aqsa was brought and placed in front of the house of Iqal or Aqil, and I began to describe its features while looking at it, yet there were still some signs I could not remember." The people said: "As for the signs, by Allah, he has described them correctly."

Sayyiduna Abu Qatadah (may Allah be pleased with him) says: We were on a journey with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him). The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "If you do not find water tomorrow, thirst will overcome you." The hasty people set out with the intention of searching for water. I stayed close to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him). The mount of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) began to lean to one side and he dozed off, so I supported him and he regained his balance. Then again, due to drowsiness, he began to lean, so I supported him and he regained his balance. Then he leaned so much that he was about to fall from his mount, so I supported him, and at that moment he woke up and asked: "Who is this man?" I said: Abu Qatadah. He asked: "Since when have you been walking?" I said: Since the night. He said: "May Allah protect you as you have protected His Messenger." Then he said: "If we take some rest, it would be better." Then he turned towards a tree and dismounted there and said: "See if any man is visible." I said: Here is one rider, here are two riders, until a total of seven people gathered. We said: Please keep watch for the Fajr prayer, lest we fall asleep. (But we all fell asleep and) the heat of the sun woke us up, and we awoke. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) mounted and set off, and we were with him. After a short distance, he dismounted and asked: "Do you have any water?" I said: Yes, I have a vessel for ablution with a little water in it. He said: "Bring it." I brought it. Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "Take water, take water." All the people performed ablution and a sip of water remained in the vessel. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "Abu Qatadah! Preserve this water, soon a great (miracle) will occur because of it." Then Sayyiduna Bilal (may Allah be pleased with him) gave the call to prayer, the people prayed the two Sunnah before Fajr, and then performed the Fajr prayer. Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) mounted and so did we. We began to say to each other that we had missed the prayer. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) asked: "What are you saying? If it is a worldly matter, resolve it yourselves, and if it is a religious matter, bring it to me." We said: O Messenger of Allah! We have missed the prayer. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "There is no negligence in delay due to sleep; negligence is only when one delays the prayer while awake and alert. If it happens as it did today, then pray as soon as you remember, and on the next day, pray at its time." The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) further said: "Estimate about the people." They said: You said yesterday that if we do not find water tomorrow, thirst will overcome us, and we have water. He said: "When morning came and the people (of the large group) found their Prophet missing, some said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) must be at the water. Abu Bakr and Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) were also present. They said: O people! It is not possible that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) would go to the water before you and leave you behind. If the people follow Abu Bakr and Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both), they will be rightly guided." These words were said three times. When the intense heat of the day began and the people saw the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), they said: O Messenger of Allah! We are perishing from thirst and our throats have become dry like thorns due to thirst. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "No destruction will befall you today." Then he said: "Abu Qatadah! Bring the ablution vessel (in which there was a sip of water)." I brought it. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "Remove the lid of my cup." I removed the lid and brought the cup to him. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) kept pouring water into it and kept giving it to the people to drink, and a large number of people gathered. Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "People! Fill up well, everyone will return fully quenched." And all the people except the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) drank the water. Finally, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) poured water for me and said: "Abu Qatadah! Drink." I said: O Messenger of Allah! You drink. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "The one who serves the people drinks last." So I drank first, then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) drank, and there was as much water left in the ablution vessel as there was before. On that day, the number of the army was three hundred (300).

Umar bin Abdullah bin Ya’la bin Murrah narrates from his father, and he from his grandfather, who says: I saw three things in the Noble Prophet (peace be upon him) that no one before me had seen. (1) I was with the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) on the way to Makkah. He passed by a girl who had her son with her, and he was in a state of madness. I had never seen such severe insanity before. The girl said: O Messenger of Allah! This is the condition of my son, as you can see (what should be done now)? The Prophet (peace be upon him) said:“If you wish, I will pray for him.”So the Prophet (peace be upon him) prayed for him and moved on. (2) Then a camel passed near the Prophet (peace be upon him), its neck was bowed and it was groaning. The Prophet (peace be upon him) said:“Bring its owner to me.”(When he came) the Prophet (peace be upon him) said:“This camel is saying that I was born at my owner’s place, he used me well, and now that I have grown old, he intends to slaughter me.”The Prophet (peace be upon him) moved on. (3) Then the Prophet (peace be upon him) saw two separate trees and said to me:“Go and tell those trees to come together (at one place).”So they came together, and the Prophet (peace be upon him) sat behind them and relieved himself, then said:“Go and tell them to separate.”Then the Prophet (peace be upon him) moved on from there. When the Prophet (peace be upon him) returned, he passed by the same child, who was playing with other children, and his mother had kept six rams for him. She sacrificed two rams and said that he never suffered from madness again. Then the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said:“Everything knows that I am the Messenger of Allah, except the disbelieving and rebellious jinn and humans.”

Abu Nadrah ‘Awfi says: I asked Sayyiduna Abu Sa‘id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) about the Seal (of Prophethood) of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). He said: The Seal of Prophethood was a raised piece of flesh on his blessed back.

Sayyiduna Sahl bin Sa’d (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates from Sayyiduna Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him), who says that when revelation would descend upon the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), he would fall into hardship, and sweat like pearls would flow from his forehead, even if it was the cold season.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) stood up and performed the Fajr prayer, and he (Abu Sa'id) was behind him. When you recited (Qur'an), it became mixed up for you. When you finished the prayer, you said: "If only you could have seen me and Iblis. I stretched out my hand and kept choking him, until I felt the coolness of his saliva between my thumb and the finger next to it. If it were not for the supplication of my brother Sulaiman (peace be upon him), he would have woken up in the morning tied to one of the pillars of the mosque, and the children of Madinah would have been playing with him. Whoever among you is able, during prayer, to prevent anything from coming between him and his qiblah, let him do so."

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her), she says: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said to me: "You were shown to me twice in a dream. A man brought you to me wrapped in a piece of silk and said: This is your wife. I said: If this matter is from Allah, then He will make it happen."