Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "Allah says, 'If My slave intends to do a bad deed then (O Angels) do not write
it unless he does it; if he does it, then write it as it is, but if he refrains from doing it for My Sake, then
write it as a good deed (in his account). (On the other hand) if he intends to do a good deed, but does
not do it, then write a good deed (in his account), and if he does it, then write it for him (in his
account) as ten good deeds up to seven-hundred times.' "
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 97, Hadith 126
'Abd Allah b. Rabah al-Ansari, whom the Ansar called faqih (juries), came to us from Medina, and reported us on the authority of Abu Qatadah al-Ansari, the horseman of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) saying: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) sent a military expedition consisting of the chief Companions. He then narrated the same story, saying Nothing awakened us except the rising sun. We stoop up in bewilderment, for our prayer. The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Wait a little, wait a little. When the sun rose high, the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Those who sued to observer the two rak'ahs of Fajr prayer (sunnah prayer before obligatory prayer) should observe them. Then those who used to observe and those who would not observe stood up and said prayer. Then the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) commanded to call for prayer; the call for prayer was made accordingly. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) stood and led us in prayer. When he turned away (from the prayer) he said: We thank Allah for the fact that we were not engaged in any wordily affairs which detained us from our prayer. Instead our souls were in the hands of Allah. He released them whenever He wished. If any one of you gets morning prayer tomorrow at its proper time, he should offer a similar prayer as an atonement.
Sunan Abi Dawud Book 2, Hadith 48
Zaid bin Thabit said “I was beside the Apostle of Allaah(ﷺ) when the divinely-inspired calmness overtook him and the thigh of the Apostle of Allaah(ﷺ) fell on my thigh. I did not find any weightier than the thigh of the Apostle of Allaah(ﷺ). He then regained his composure and said “Write down. I wrote on a shoulder. Not equal are thise believers who sit (at home), other than those who have a (disabling) hurt, and those who strive in the way of Allaah. When Ibn Umm Makhtum who was blind heard the excellence of the warriors. He stood up and said “Apostle of Allaah(ﷺ) how is it for those believers who are unable to fight (in the path of Allaah)? When he finished his question his divinely-inspired calmness overtook him, and his thigh fell on my thigh and I found its weight the second time as I found the first time.” When the Apostle of Allaah(ﷺ) regained his composure, he said “Apostle of Allaah(ﷺ) said “Other than those who have a (disabling hurt). Zaid said “Allaah, the exalted, revealed it alone and I appended it.” By Him in Whose hands is my life, I am seeing, as it were the place where I put it (i.e., the verse) at the crack in the shoulder.”
Sunan Abi Dawud Book 15, Hadith 31
Yahya related to me from Malik from Yazid ibn Abdullah ibn al-
Hadi from Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Harith at-Taymi from Abu Salama ibn
Abd ar-Rahman that Abu Said al-Khudri said, "The Messenger of Allah,
may Allah bless him and grant him peace, used to do itikaf in the
middle ten days of Ramadan. One year he was doing itikaf and then,
when it came to the night of the twenty-first, which was the night
before the morning when he would normally have finished his itikaf, he
said, 'Whoever has done i'tikaf with me should continue doing itikaf
for the last ten days. I saw a certain night and then I was made to
forget it. I saw myself prostrating the following morning in water and
clay. Look for it in the last ten days, and look for it on the odd
days.' "
Abu Said continued, "The sky poured with rain that
night and the mosque had a roof (made of palm fronds) and the mosque
was soaked. With my own eyes I saw the Messenger of Allah, may Allah
bless him and grant him peace, leave with traces of water and clay on
his forehead and nose, in the morning after the night of the twenty-
first."
Muwatta Malik Book 19, Hadith 11