1328), in spite of his well-known objections to the visiting of saints' graves, nevertheless stated: 'The miracles of saints are absolutely true and correct, by the acceptance of all Muslim scholars. The fourteenth-century Hanbali scholar Ibn Taymiyyah (d. The references in the corpus of hadith literature to bona fide miracle-working saints like the pre-Islamic Jurayj̲ (seemingly an Arabic form of the Greek Grēgorios), only lent further credence to this early understanding of the miracles of the saints. As the Quran referred to the miracles of non-prophetic saintly people like Khidr (18:65-82), the disciples of Jesus (5:111-115), and the People of the Cave (18:7-26), amongst many others, many prominent early scholars deduced that a group of venerable people must exist who occupy a rank below the prophets but who are nevertheless capable of performing miracles. 1000), emerged from the two basic Islamic doctrinal sources of the Quran and the hadith.

The doctrine of the karāmāt al-awliyāʾ, which became enshrined as an orthodox and required belief in many of the most prominent Sunni creeds of the classical era such as the Creed of Tahawi (ca.

According to orthodox Sunni doctrine, all miracles performed by saints are done by the leave of God, and usually involve a 'breaking of the natural order of things' ( k̲h̲āriḳ li'l-ʿāda),' or represent, in other words, 'an extraordinary happening which breaks the 'divine custom' ( sunnat Allāh) which is the normal course of events.' Traditionally, Sunni Islam has also strictly emphasized that the miracle of a saint, however extraordinary it may be, is never in any way the 'sign of a prophetic mission,' and this has been stressed in order to safeguard the Islamic doctrine of Muhammad being the Seal of the Prophets. 700-1400), as well as by many prominent late-medieval scholars. Historically, a 'belief in the miracles of saints ( karāmāt al-awliyāʾ, literally 'marvels of the friends ')' has been 'a requirement in Sunni Islam.' This is evident from the fact that an acceptance of the miracles wrought by saints is taken for granted by many of the major authors of the Islamic Golden Age (ca.

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