People asked Imâm Ahmad ibn Hanbal (rahimah-Allâhu ta’âlâ), “As-Sahâbat al-kirâm (radî-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anhum ajma’în) had not been witnessed to have so many karâmât as their posterity had been. What was the reason for this?” He said: “It was not necessary for karâmât be endowed upon as-Sahâbat al-kirâm to strengthen their îmân, because their îmân was very strong. However, because the posterity’s îmân was not so strong, they were given karâmât to affirm their îmân.” Abu Bakr (radî-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anh) willed that his children would be looked after by Hadrat ’Â’isha (radî-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anhâ) when he was about to leave this world. “My son and two daughters, I entrust them to you,” he said. Whereas, he had only one daughter named Asmâ’ other than Hadrat ’Â’isha, who inquired, “I have only one sister. Who is the other sister of mine?” He said, “My wife is pregnant. I think she will have a baby-girl.” After he died, a baby-girl was born as he had said.

Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sal-lam’ states in a hadîth-i-sherîf, which is quoted at the end of the first fascicle of the book Berîqa: “One who has three things will enter Paradise through any door he may wish: one who returns others’ rights which he has violated before, who recites eleven times the chapter of ‘Ikhlâs’ of the Qur’ân after every ‘salât’ prayer, and who forgives his murderer before he dies.”