Ash-Shama'il Al-Muhammadiyah

The Seeing Of Rasoolullah In a Dream

باب ماجاء في رؤية رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم

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Yazid al-Farisi, who used to inscribe copies of the Qur’an said

“I saw the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) in my sleep in the time of Ibn 'Abbas, so I said to Ibn 'Abbas:‘I saw Allah’s Messenger (Allah bless him and give him peace) in my sleep!’Ibn 'Abbas said: “Allah’s Messenger (Allah bless him and give him peace) used to say: ‘Satan cannot imitate me, so if someone sees me in his sleep, he has indeed seen me!’ Can you describe this man whom you saw in your sleep?” “Yes,” he said. “I shall describe for you an average man: his body and his flesh were brown-to-white; he was black eyed, endowed with a pleasant smile and handsome facial features; his beard went from here to here, and it came down over the top of his chest.”'Awf said: "I do not know what could be added to this description,” and Ibn 'Abbas said: "If you had seen him in the state of wakefulness, you could not have described him more accurately than this.”

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(Regarding one of the narrators of the previous narration) `Awf (Abu Jamilah) al-A`rabi said

"I am older then Qatadah."

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'Abdullah ibn Mas'ud, that the Prophet said (Allah bless him and give him peace)

“If someone sees me in his sleep, he has indeed seen me, for Satan cannot imitate me!"

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Abu Qatada said

“Allah’s Messenger said (Allah bless him and give him peace): ‘If someone sees me (meaning in his sleep), he has seen me truly!'”

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Anas said

"The Prophet said (Allah bless him and give him peace): 'If someone sees me in his sleep, he has indeed seen me, for Satan cannot impersonate me!' He also said: 'The vision of the believer is one of forty-six parts of Prophethood.'"

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Ibn Sirin said

"This tradition [hadith] is religion, so consider from whom you accept your religion.”

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Abu Huraira (may Allah be well pleased with him) said

“Allah’s Messenger said (Allah bless him and give him peace): ‘If someone sees me in his sleep, he has indeed seen me, for Satan cannot appear in disguise as me’(or: ‘cannot imitate me’).”

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Abu Malik al-Ashja'i reported that his father said

"Allah’s Messenger said (Allah bless him and give him peace): “If someone sees me in his sleep, he has indeed seen me!”

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Khalaf ibn Khalifa said

“I saw Amr ibn Huraith, the Companion of the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace), when I was a little boy.”

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'Asim ibn Kulaib’s father heard Abu Huraira say

“Allah’s Messenger (Allah bless him and give him peace) said: ‘If someone sees me in his sleep, he has indeed seen me, for Satan cannot imitate me!’ The father then related this to Ibn Abbas, saying that he had seen the Prophet. He also mentioned al-Hasan ibn ‘Ali, noting that he resembled the Prophet. To this Ibn 'Abbas replied, ‘Yes, he resembled him.’”

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Abdu llah ibn al-Mubarak said

“If you are afflicted with the responsibility of judgeship, you must follow the [Prophetic] tradition [al-athar]!”