Some of the greatest and most convincing testimonies to the prophethood of Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم are the numerous occasions on which he correctly predicted future events. Only one to whom God had granted access to the realm of the unseen could have, time and again, accurately foretold the future. This chapter will seek to capture some of these predictions—all derived from Qur’anic verses and authentic hadith—and how each one of them came to pass, just as he صلى الله عليه وسلم predicted.

Al-Qāḍī ‘Iyāḍ (d. 1149) says, “This genre of hadith(s) are a bottomless ocean and an unending stream. They are one of his miracles which are undeniably established, transmitted to us by tawātur (abundant concurrence), due to their many narrators and the concordance of their meanings, all corroborating the fact that he صلى الله عليه وسلم was privy to [some of] the unseen.”263

In this chapter, we will take a dive into this ocean, exploring some of its wonders.