Book 91: Interpretation of Dreams
Sahih al-Bukhari
Sahih al-Bukhari 6982
Yahya bin Bukair narrated to us that Laith told us. He narrated from Uqail (bin Khalid), Uqail from Ibn Shihab. And Abdullah bin Muhammad narrated to me that Abdur Razzaq told us. Ma'mar narrated to us that Zuhri said: Urwah informed me. Urwah narrated from Hazrat Aishah (ra). She says: The revelation that first began to come to the Messenger of Allah (saw) was in the form of true dreams in the state of sleep. Whatever dream he (saw) saw would be fulfilled like the break of dawn. He (saw) (used to) come to (the cave of) Hira and worship in it; this worship lasted a certain number of nights, and he (saw) used to take provisions for this purpose. Then he would return to Hazrat Khadijah (ra), and she would give him (saw) the same amount of provisions. (He (saw) continued worshipping in this manner) until suddenly the Truth came to him (saw) while he (saw) was in the cave of Hira. There the angel came to him (saw) and said: “Read.” The Prophet (saw) said to him: “I am not a reader.” (He (saw) said:) “He seized me and pressed me so hard that all my strength was spent. Then he released me and said: ‘Read.’ I said: ‘I am not a reader.’ Then he seized me and pressed me a second time with such force that my strength was spent. Then he released me and said: ‘Read.’ I said: ‘I am not a reader.’ Then he seized me and pressed me a third time with such force that all my strength was spent. Then he released me and said: Convey thou in the name of thy Lord Who created, … (Qur’an 96:2) and he reached this verse: Taught man what he knew not (Qur’an 96:6).” He returned with this (Divine revelation). The muscles between his (saw) shoulders and neck were trembling. He came to Hazrat Khadijah (ra) and said: “Wrap me up, wrap me up.” So she wrapped him (saw) up, until the fear left him (saw). He (saw) said: “Khadijah, what has happened to me?” and he (saw) told her the whole incident and said: “I fear for my life.” Hazrat Khadijah (ra) said to him (saw): “Never! Glad tidings to you. By Allah, Allah will never disgrace you. You treat your relatives kindly, speak the truth, bear the burden of the helpless, honour the guest and help in the hardships that come in the cause of truth.” Then Hazrat Khadijah (ra) took him (saw) with her to Waraqah bin Naufal bin Asad bin Abdul Uzza bin Qusayy; he was the son of that paternal uncle of Hazrat Khadijah (ra) who was the (full) brother of her father. He was a man who had become a Christian in the time of ignorance and knew how to write Arabic script, and he used to write in the Arabic language from the Gospel whatever Allah willed that he should write. He was old and had become blind. Hazrat Khadijah (ra) said to him: “Son of my uncle, listen to your nephew.” Waraqah said: “My nephew, what do you see?” The Prophet (saw) told him what he had seen. Waraqah said: “This is the same angel who was sent down to Hazrat Moses (as). Would that I were young at that time; (would that) I might remain alive until the time when your people will drive you out.” The Messenger of Allah (saw) said: “Will they drive me out?” Waraqah said: “Yes. Whenever any man has brought the revelation that you have brought, he has always been met with hostility; and if your time finds me alive, I shall help you with girded loins.” Then after this Waraqah soon died, and the revelation stopped for some time, so much so that the Prophet (saw), as news has reached us, became so grieved that several times, out of this grief, he (saw) went out in the morning in order to throw himself down from the peaks of high mountains and perish; but whenever he climbed to the top of a mountain for the purpose of throwing himself down from it, Gabriel (as) would appear before him (saw) and say: “Muhammad, you are truly the Messenger of Allah (saw).” By this his (saw) heart would find peace and his soul would be at rest, and he would return. Then when the revelation remained suspended for long, he would go out in the morning with this intention. When he climbed to the mountain top, Gabriel (as) would appear before him (saw) and say the same to him. Hazrat Ibn Abbas (ra) said: As for what is said (in Surah Al-An'am): He causes the break of day (Qur’an 6:97), by this is meant the light of the sun by day and the light of the moon by night.
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Abdullah bin Maslamah narrated to us. He narrated from Malik, Malik from Ishaq bin Abdullah bin Abi Talhah, he from Hazrat Anas bin Malik (ra), that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said: “The good dream of a righteous person is one part out of forty-six parts of prophethood.”
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Ahmad bin Yunus narrated to us that Zuhair (bin Mu'awiyah) told us. Yahya bin Sa'id narrated to us. Yahya said: I heard Abu Salamah; he used to say: I heard Hazrat Abu Qatadah (ra). He narrated from the Prophet (saw); he (saw) said: “A true vision is from Allah, and a disturbing dream is from Satan.”
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Abdullah bin Yusuf narrated to us that Laith told us. Ibnul Had narrated to me. He narrated from Abdullah bin Khabbab, Abdullah from Hazrat Abu Sa'id Khudri (ra), that he heard the Prophet (saw). He (saw) says: “If one of you sees a dream that he likes, it is from Allah alone, and he should thank Allah for it and relate this dream; and if he sees some other dream which he dislikes, it is from Satan. He should seek refuge from its evil and not mention it to anyone; then that dream will not harm him.”
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Musaddad narrated to us that Abdullah bin Yahya bin Abi Kathir told us, and Musaddad praised him highly. (He said:) I met him in Yamamah. He used to narrate from his father. (He said:) Abu Salamah narrated to us. He narrated from Hazrat Abu Qatadah (ra), and he from the Prophet (saw). He (saw) said: “A good dream is from Allah and a disturbing dream is from Satan. If someone sees a disturbing dream, he should seek refuge from it and spit to his left side, and then that dream will not harm him.” And he also narrated this chain from his father. He said: Abdullah bin Abi Qatadah narrated to us. He narrated from his father, and his father from the Prophet (saw), a hadith like this.
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Muhammad bin Bashshar narrated to us that Ghundar told us. Shu'bah narrated to us. He narrated from Qatadah, Qatadah from Hazrat Anas bin Malik (ra), Hazrat Anas (ra) from Hazrat Ubadah bin Samit (ra), and he from the Prophet (saw). He (saw) said: “The dream of a believer is one part of the forty-six parts of prophethood.”
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Yahya bin Qaza'ah narrated to us that Ibrahim bin Sa'd told us. He narrated from Zuhri, Zuhri from Sa'id bin Musayyab, and Sa'id from Hazrat Abu Hurairah (ra), that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said: “The dream of a believer is one part of the forty-six parts of prophethood.” Thabit, Humaid, Ishaq bin Abdullah (bin Abi Talhah) and Shu'aib (bin Habhab) also narrated this hadith. They narrated from Hazrat Anas (ra), and he from the Prophet (saw).
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Ibrahim bin Hamzah narrated to me that Ibn Abi Hazim and Darawardi told me. They narrated from Yazid bin Abdullah bin Khabbab, and he from Hazrat Abu Sa'id Khudri (ra), that he heard the Messenger of Allah (saw). He (saw) says: “A good dream is one part of the forty-six parts of prophethood.”
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Abul Yaman narrated to us that Shu'aib told us. He narrated from Zuhri that Sa'id bin Musayyab narrated to me that Hazrat Abu Hurairah (ra) said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (saw). He (saw) used to say: “Of prophethood, now only the things that give glad tidings remain.” People said: What is meant by these things that give glad tidings? He (saw) said: “A good dream.”
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Yahya bin Bukair narrated to us that Laith told us. He narrated from Uqail, Uqail from Ibn Shihab, Ibn Shihab from Salim bin Abdullah, and Salim from Hazrat Ibn Umar (ra), that some people were shown in a dream that Lailat-ul-Qadr is in the last seven nights, and some people were shown in a dream that it is in the last ten nights. So the Prophet (saw) said: “Seek it in the last seven nights.”
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Abdullah bin Muhammad bin Asma narrated to us that Juwairiyah (bin Asma) told us. He narrated from Malik, and Malik from Zuhri, that Sa'id bin Musayyab and Abu Ubaid told him. Both of them narrated from Hazrat Abu Hurairah (ra). He said that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said: “If I had stayed in prison as long as Joseph (as) stayed, and then the summoner had come, I would have accepted his call.”
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Abdan narrated to us that Abdullah (bin Mubarak) told us. He narrated from Yunus, and Yunus from Zuhri, that Abu Salamah told me that Hazrat Abu Hurairah (ra) said: I heard the Prophet (saw). He (saw) used to say: “Whoever has seen me in a dream will soon see me in the waking state as well, and Satan does not take on my form.” Abu Abdullah (Imam Bukhari) said: Ibn Sirin used to say: This means if he sees him (saw) in a dream in his (saw) own form.
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Mu'alla bin Asad narrated to us that Abdul Aziz bin Mukhtar told us. Thabit Bunani narrated to us. He narrated from Hazrat Anas (ra). He said: The Prophet (saw) said: “Whoever has seen me in a dream has indeed seen me, because Satan cannot take on my appearance; and the dream of a believer is one part of the forty-six parts of prophethood.”
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Sahih al-Bukhari 6995
Yahya bin Bukair narrated to us that Laith told us. He narrated from Ubaidullah bin Abi Ja'far that Abu Salamah told me. He narrated from Hazrat Abu Qatadah (ra). He said that the Prophet (saw) said: “A good dream is from Allah and a disturbing dream is from Satan. Therefore, whoever sees something that he dislikes should spit to his left side three times and seek refuge from Satan, and then that dream will not harm him; and Satan cannot take on an appearance like mine.”
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Khalid bin Khali narrated to us that Muhammad bin Harb told us. Zubaidi narrated to me. He narrated from Zuhri that Abu Salamah said that Hazrat Abu Qatadah (ra) said: The Prophet (saw) said: “Whoever has seen me in a dream has truly seen me indeed.” (Like Zubaidi) Yunus and the nephew of Zuhri also narrated this hadith.
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Abdullah bin Yusuf narrated to us that Laith told us. Ibn al-Had narrated to me. He narrated from Abdullah bin Khabbab, and he from Hazrat Abu Sa'id Khudri (ra). He heard the Prophet (saw); he (saw) used to say: “Whoever has seen me in a dream has truly seen me indeed, because Satan cannot be in my form.”
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Ahmad bin Miqdam Ijli narrated to us that Muhammad bin Abdur Rahman Tufawi told us. Ayyub narrated to us. Ayyub narrated from Muhammad (bin Sirin), and Muhammad from Hazrat Abu Hurairah (ra). He said: The Prophet (saw) said: “I have been given the keys of words, and I have been helped with awe; and last night I was asleep when the keys of the treasures of the earth were brought to me and placed in my hand.” Hazrat Abu Hurairah (ra) said: The Messenger of Allah (saw) has gone, and now you are bringing out these treasures, carrying them away one after another.
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Abdullah bin Maslamah narrated to us. He narrated from Malik, Malik from Nafi', and Nafi' from Hazrat Abdullah bin Umar (ra), that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said: “Tonight I saw myself in a dream near the Ka'bah. Then I saw a man of wheat-brown complexion who was extremely handsome, as handsome as the best you have ever seen among men of brown complexion. He had locks of hair, as beautiful as the most beautiful locks you have ever seen. He had combed them and water was dripping from them. He was leaning on two men,” or he said: “leaning on the shoulders of two men. He was performing the circuit (Tawaf) of the House of Allah. I asked: ‘Who is this?’ I was told: ‘The Messiah, son of Mary.’ Then all at once I saw another man with curly hair, very curly, blind in the right eye; it looked as if it were a swollen grape. I asked: ‘Who is this?’ And I was told: ‘This is the Messiah, the Dajjal.’”
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Yahya (bin Abdullah bin Bukair) narrated to us that Laith (bin Sa'd) told us. He narrated from Yunus, Yunus from Ibn Shihab, and he from Ubaidullah bin Abdullah, that Hazrat Ibn Abbas (ra) used to relate that a man came to the Messenger of Allah (saw) and said: I was shown a dream last night. And (Ibn Shihab) related the whole hadith. And (like Yunus) Sulaiman bin Kathir, the nephew of Zuhri, and Sufyan bin Husain also related it, narrating from Zuhri. They narrated from Ubaidullah (bin Abdullah), Ubaidullah from Hazrat Ibn Abbas (ra), and Hazrat Ibn Abbas (ra) from the Prophet (saw). And Zubaidi, narrating from Zuhri, said: Zuhri reported from Ubaidullah that Hazrat Ibn Abbas (ra) or Hazrat Abu Hurairah (ra) narrated it from the Prophet (saw). And Shu'aib and Ishaq bin Yahya reported from Zuhri that Hazrat Abu Hurairah (ra) used to relate it, narrating from the Prophet (saw). And Ma'mar (bin Rashid) at first did not relate this hadith with a connected chain; then later he began to do so.
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Abdullah bin Yusuf narrated to us that Malik told us. He narrated from Ishaq bin Abdullah bin Abi Talhah that he heard Hazrat Anas bin Malik (ra). He relates: The Messenger of Allah (saw) used to visit Umm Haram bint Milhan (ra), and she was married to Hazrat Ubadah bin Samit (ra). One day he (saw) went to her house, and she gave him (saw) food and began to look through the hair of his (saw) head. Meanwhile the Messenger of Allah (saw) fell asleep. Then he (saw) woke up, and he (saw) was laughing.
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