and are recurrently transmitted in the hadith corpus. No other prophet was granted anything comparable; through them the truth of the Almighty’s words becomes manifest:

“Those messengers—We have exalted some of them over others. Among them are those to whom Allah spoke, and He raised some of them in rank, and We gave Jesus son of Mary the clear proofs and strengthened him with the Holy Spirit.” (al-Baqarah 2:253)

The ranks to which Muhammad was elevated on the night of the miʿrāj (Ascension)—and to which he will be raised in the Hereafter at the Praiseworthy Station (al-maqām al-maḥmūd), a station that will be the envy of both the first and the last and is shared by no one else—are recorded in the two Ṣaḥīḥs in the hadith of Anas ibn Mālik, related from Mālik ibn Ṣaʿṣaʿah and Abū Dharr, as well as in the narrations of Ibn ʿAbbās, Abū Ḥabbah al-Anṣārī, and others.