Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) says that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I have been given five things that were not given to any prophet before me, and I do not say this out of pride: I have been sent to every fair-skinned and every dark-skinned person; I have been helped by awe (cast into the enemy) from a distance of a month; the spoils of war have been made lawful for me, which were not made lawful for anyone before me; the earth has been made for me a place of prayer and a means of purification; and I have been given the intercession, which I have deferred for my Ummah, and it will be for every person who dies in a state in which he does not associate anything with Allah."