Depth
At a glance
- Era
- The Prophetic Era
- Region
- Arabia · Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
In time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
ProphetsWorship and the pillars
Opinions on the question
The question: Was the Isra and Miraj in body and soul while awake, and how is it dated and understood?
First opinion · Sunni tradition (the museum's frame)Main reference
Sunni scholars hold that the journey occurred in both body and soul while awake, citing explicit hadith reports in Bukhari and Muslim and the opening of Surat al-Isra.
More opinions (1)
Academic viewSecondary opinion
Historians analyse the varied early reports and traditions regarding the dating and nature of the night journey, contrasting the concise Qur'anic text with the developed details in classical hadith literature.
Connections
- Occurred at
- MeccaJerusalem
- Had participant
- MuhammadAbu Bakr al-SiddiqAbu Jahl (Amr ibn Hisham)
- Part of
- The Prophetic Era
- Revealed in
- Qur'an 17:1Qur'an 53:1
People and things also explored
The three years of the secret callThe Battle of BadrThe boycott of the Banu HashimThe Farewell PilgrimageThe HijraHamza accepts IslamLast Quraysh delegation to Abu TalibThe persecution of the vulnerable Muslims
Sources
- al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri
- Zad al-Ma'ad — Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya
- Sahih al-Bukhari
- Sahih Muslim
- al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “The Isra and Mi'raj”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/isra-and-miraj/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-12.