Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 32508 — Reports on the dreams the Prophet

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Samurah bin Jundub (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) would often say to his Companions: "Has any of you seen a dream?" Then whatever Allah Almighty willed would be related to him. One morning he said to us: "Two men came to me last night (the narrator mentioned the word 'atiyan' or 'ithnan'), and those two men said to me: 'Come along.' So I set off with them. We came to a man who was lying down, and another man stood at his head holding up a rock. Suddenly he threw the rock on his head and crushed his head, and the stone rolled some distance away. The man goes and picks up the stone, and before he has come back to the man lying down, his head becomes whole and sound as it was before. Then he repeats on him what he did the first time. I said: 'Subhan Allah! What is this?' They said: 'Come along.' Then we went on until we came to a man lying on the back of his neck, and another man stood near him holding an iron hook. He comes to one side of the face of the man lying down and rips his cheek to the back of his neck, and rips his eye too to the back of his neck, and his nostril too to the back of his neck. Then he comes to the other side and does the same to it. He has not finished with that second side before the first side becomes sound and healthy as it was before. Then he does again what he did the first time. I said to my two companions: 'Subhan Allah! What is this?' They said to me: 'Keep going.' Then we went on until we came to a building like an oven. The narrator says: I think he said: We heard the sound of uproar in that oven. We looked into that building, and in it were naked men and naked women, and flames of fire come up from below them. When the flames reach them, they scream and cry out. I said to the two of them: 'Who are these people?' They said: 'Keep going.' Then we went on until we came to a river. The narrator says: I think he said that it was a red river, the colour of blood. There we saw a man swimming in the river, and on the bank of the river a man who had gathered many stones around him. The swimmer swims as far as he can until he reaches the man who has gathered the stones around him, and on reaching him he opens his mouth, and that man throws a stone into his mouth. Then he goes off and swims as far as he can, and then he comes back to that man; every time he returns he opens his mouth, and the man throws the stone into it. I said: 'What is this?' They said to me: 'Keep going.' We went on until we came to an extremely ugly man, so ugly that no one will have seen his like, and we saw that beside him was a fire which he was stoking and circling around. I said to my two companions: 'What is this?' They said to me: 'Keep going.' So we went on until we reached a garden in which flowers of every kind of the spring season were coming out. In the middle of the garden we saw a tall man; I could hardly make out the height of his head in the sky. Around that man I saw children in very great numbers, and very handsome. I said to the two of them: 'Who is this person, and who are these children?' They said to me: 'Keep going.' In short we went on and came to a huge staircase; I had never before seen a staircase bigger or better than it. They said to me: 'Climb it.' I climbed it, and we reached a city built of bricks of gold and silver. We came to the gate of the city and asked for it to be opened, and it was opened for us, so we entered it. There we met some people, one part of whose bodies was most beautiful and the other part most ugly. My two companions said to those people: 'Go and plunge into that river.' I looked, and there was a river flowing whose water was intensely white. They went and jumped into that river. Then they returned to us with the ugliness gone from them, and they had changed into a beautiful form. The two of them said: 'This is the Garden of Eden, and look, this is your home.' My gaze rose upward, and I saw a palace like a white cloud. They said to me: 'That is your home.' I said to them: 'May Allah bless you both! Let me go and enter it.' They said to me: 'Not now, but you will enter it.' I said to them: 'Tonight I have seen wonders. What is this that I have seen?' They said: 'We will certainly tell you. As for the first man you came to, whose head was being crushed with the stone, he is a man who takes up the Qur'an and sleeps through the obligatory prayer. As for the man you came to whose cheek, eye and nostril were being ripped to the back of his neck, he is a man who leaves his house in the morning and tells a lie that reaches the far horizons. As for the naked men and women in the building like an oven, they are the fornicators, men and women. As for the man swimming in the river and being fed stones, he is the one who consumes usury (riba). As for the ugly man beside the fire, he is Malik, the keeper of Hell. As for the tall man in the garden, he is Ibrahim, and as for the children around him, they are every child who died upon the natural disposition (fitrah).'" The narrator says that some of the Muslims said: "O Messenger of Allah! And the children of the polytheists?" The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "And the children of the polytheists. As for the people of whom one part was as ugly as anything you have seen and one part as beautiful as anything you have seen, they are people who mixed a righteous deed with another that was evil, and Allah overlooked their sins."