A ḥadith in which the Messenger of Allah ﷺ answered one who came to ask, before the questioner had uttered a single word.
Imam Aḥmad said: ʿAffān narrated to us; Ḥammād ibn Salamah narrated to us; al-Zubayr Abū ʿAbd al-Salām informed us; from Ayyūb ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Makraz—though he did not hear it directly from him—who said: “His companions, whom I met, related it to me, from Wābiṣah al-Asadī.” ʿAffān added: “He narrated it to us more than once,” without the phrase “his companions related it to me.”
Wābiṣah said: “I came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ resolved not to leave out a single matter of righteousness or sin without asking him about it. Around him was a group of Muslims seeking legal opinions, and I began stepping over them.
“They said, ‘Step back, Wābiṣah, from the Messenger of Allah!’
“I replied, ‘Leave me to draw near to him; of all people he is the one I most wish to approach.’
“The Prophet ﷺ said, ‘Leave Wābiṣah alone; come forward, Wābiṣah,’—two or three times. I drew close until I sat right in front of him.
“He asked, ‘Wābiṣah, shall I tell you what you came to ask, or will you ask me yourself?’
“I said, ‘Tell me instead.’
“He said, ‘You came to ask about righteousness and sin.’
“I replied, ‘Yes.’
“He gathered his fingers and began tapping them against my chest, saying, ‘Wābiṣah, consult your heart, consult your soul—three times. Righteousness is that which the soul feels tranquil with; sin is that which troubles the soul and makes the breast hesitant, even if the people give you fatwā after fatwā.’”
Chapter: Prophecies the Prophet ﷺ made concerning future events—during his life and after it—that occurred exactly as he foretold.
This is a tremendous field, far too vast to catalogue in full because of its sheer abundance. We shall therefore point to only a small portion of it; Allah’s help is sought, upon Him we rely, and there is no power and no might except with Allah, the All-Mighty, the All-Wise. These proofs are drawn from both the Qur’an and the ḥadith.
As for the Qur’an, the Exalted says in Sūrat al-Muzzammil—which is among the earliest revelations in Mecca—
“He knew that you would not be able to keep count, so He turned to you in mercy …” (73:20)