As for the first category:

• The prostration in al-Aʿrāf: “Indeed, those who are in the presence of your Lord are never too proud to worship Him; they glorify Him and to Him they prostrate.” (al-Aʿrāf 7:206). Allah mentions this immediately after commanding that the Qur’an be listened to and remembered.

• In ar-Raʿd: “To Allah prostrates everyone in the heavens and on the earth, willingly or unwillingly—and so do their shadows in the mornings and the evenings.” (ar-Raʿd 13:15).

• In an-Naḥl: “Have they not considered all that Allah has created—how their shadows incline to the right and to the left, prostrating to Allah in utter humility? And to Allah prostrates whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on the earth of living creatures, and so do the angels, and they are not arrogant. They fear their Lord above them and do what they are commanded.” (an-Naḥl 16:48-50).

• In Sūrat al-Isrāʾ (Subḥān): “Those who were given knowledge beforehand—when it is recited to them they fall down upon their faces in prostration, saying, ‘Glory be to our Lord! The promise of our Lord has indeed been fulfilled.’ And they fall upon their faces weeping, and it increases them in humility.” (al-Isrāʾ 17:107-109). This passage reports people who, upon hearing the Qur’an, prostrated.

• Likewise in Maryam: “Those are the ones upon whom Allah bestowed His favor—prophets from the descendants of Adam, of those We carried with Noah, of the descendants of Abraham and Israel, and of those We guided and chose. Whenever the verses of the Most Merciful were recited to them, they would fall down in prostration and tears.” (Maryam 19:58). These prophets prostrated when the verses of the Most Merciful were recited to them, and those who were given knowledge—