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Sahih Muslim 2266a

The Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) said: He who saw me in a dream in fact saw me, for the satan does not appear in my form.

Abu Hurayrahnarrated it
Sahihgraded sahih
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الرَّبِيعِ، سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ دَاوُدَ الْعَتَكِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادٌ، (يَعْنِي ابْنَ زَيْدٍ) حَدَّثَنَا أَيُّوبُ، وَهِشَامٌ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَنْ رَآنِي فِي الْمَنَامِ فَقَدْ رَآنِي فَإِنَّ الشَّيْطَانَ لَا يَتَمَثَّلُ بِي»

The Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) said: He who saw me in a dream in fact saw me, for the satan does not appear in my form.

আবূ কামিল ফুযায়ল ইবনু হুসায়ন আল জাহদারী (রহঃ) .... আবূ সাঈদ আল খুদরী (রাযিঃ) থেকে। তিনি বলেন, রসূলুল্লাহ সাল্লাল্লাহু আলাইহি ওয়াসাল্লাম বলেছেনঃ পাঁচ ওয়াসাকের কম পরিমাণ শস্যের কোন যাকাত ধার্য হয় না। পাঁচ উটের কম সংখ্যক হলে কোন যাকাত ধার্য হয় না এবং পাঁচ উকিয়্যার কমে (রৌপ্যের) কোন যাকাত নেই।

عمارہ بن غزیہ نے یحییٰ بن عمارہ سے حدیث بیان کی ، انھوں نے کہا : میں نے حضرت ابو سعید خدری رضی اللہ تعالیٰ عنہ کو کہتے ہوئے سنا ، انھوں نے کہا : رسول اللہ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم نے فرمایا : " پانچ وسق سے کم ( کھجور یا غلے ) میں صدقہ نہیں اور پانچ سے کم اونٹوں میں صدقہ نہیں اور پانچ اوقیہ سے کم ( چاندی ) میں صدقہ نہیں ۔

Dan telah menceritakan kepadaku [Abu Kamil Fudlail bin Husain Al Jahdari] Telah menceritakan kepada kami [Bisyr yakni Ibnu Mufadldlal] Telah menceritakan kepada kami [Umarah bin Ghaziyyyah] dari [Yahya bin Umarah] ia berkata, saya mendengar [Abu Sa'id Al Khudri] berkata; Rasulullah shallallahu 'alaihi wasallam bersabda: "Tidak wajib dizakati binatang ternak yang kurang dari lima ekor, dan emas perak yang kurang dari lima uqiyah (lima uqiyah sama dengan dua ratus dirham)

Bana Ebû Kâmil Fudayl b. Hüseyin El-Cahderî rivayet etti. (Dediki): Bize, Bişr yâni İbni Mufaddâl rivayet etti. (Dediki): Bize Umârutü'bnü Gaziyye, Yahya b. Umâra'dan naklen rivayet etti. Demişki: Ebû Saîd-i Hudrî'yi şunları söylerken işittim: Resulullah (Sallallahu Aleyhi ve Sellem)'- «Beş vesk'den daha az da zekât yoktur. Beş tane üçer yaşında deveden daha aşağı da zekât yoktur. Ve beş okiyye'den daha az gümüşte zekât yoktur.» buyurdular

Sahih Muslim 2266a, Book 42, The Book of Dreams, Hadith 23. 1 min read

What it means

Scholars held different opinions regarding the interpretation of this Hadīth; some of which are as follows: First: The Hadīth addresses the people contemporaneous with the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him). It means that whoever saw him in a dream and had not yet made Hijrah, Allah would guide him to make Hijrah and see the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) with his own eyes in wakefulness.

Second: That this dream will come true in the Hereafter, because all Muslims will see him in the Hereafter, both those who saw him in the life and those who did not. Third: That he will see him in the Hereafter in a special manner in terms of closeness to him and receiving his intercession and so on. His statement: “or it is as if he has seen me while awake” is part of the narration of Imām Muslim, and he was doubtful about it as to whether the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) said “then he will see me while he is awake,” or “it is as if he has seen me while he is awake.”

Meaning: Whoever sees the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) in a dream in his true image, it is as if he has seen him while awake. It is similar to his statement: “Whoever sees me in a dream has indeed seen me.” And his statement: “Whoever sees me in a dream then what he has seen is true.” His statement: “the devil does not take my shape,” and in another wording; “Whoever has seen me in a dream has indeed seen me for the devil is not permitted to take my shape.”

Meaning: the devil cannot assume the appearance of the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) in his true shape. Nevertheless, the devil may come (and trick people) saying that he is the Messenger of Allah while assume an appearance that is not the true appearance of the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him).

This would not be the Messenger of Allah. Therefore if a person sees someone (in a dream) and his soul tells him that this is really the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) then he should verify whether the description of the person he saw matches the Prophet's. If they did indeed match then he has seen the Prophet.

If they do not match then it definitely was not the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) but rather illusions that the devil put into the heart of the sleeping person insinuating to him that it was the Messenger, while in fact it was not him.

Yazīd al-Fārisi said: “I saw the Messenger of Allah in a dream so I said to Ibn ‘Abbās: ‘I have seen the Messenger of Allah in a dream.’ Ibn ‘Abbās said: ‘The Messenger of Allah used to say: 'The devil cannot take my shape, so whoever has seen me in a dream has without doubt seen me.' Can you describe to me the man that you saw?’

I said: ‘Yes.'" After Yazīd had described him, Ibn ‘Abbās said: "If you had seen him while awake, you wouldn’t have described him better.” Meaning: If you had seen the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) while you were awake, you wouldn’t have given a more accurate description of him. This is the meaning of the statement that he has truly seen the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him).

From the Encyclopedia of Translated Prophetic Hadiths, hadeethenc.com.

The chain

Who passed it on, from Imam Muslim back to the one who was there.

  1. 1Imam MuslimCompiler, died 261 AH
  2. 2Sulayman ibn DawudTold us, Fourth generation, died 234 AH
  3. 3Hammad ibn ZaydTold us, Third generation, died 177 AH
  4. 4Ayyub as-SakhtiyaniTold us, Successor, died 130 AH
  5. 5هِشَامٌWith
  6. 6Muhammad ibn SirinFrom, Successor, died 110 AH
  7. 7Abu HurayrahFrom, Companion, died 57 AH

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