Reports on the dreams the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) told of

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I saw in a dream gold bracelets on my hands, and I blew on them. I took the interpretation of these bracelets to be these two liars: Musaylimah and al-Ansi."

It is narrated from al-Hasan that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I saw in a dream as though there were two bracelets of gold on my hands. I disliked them, so I blew on them and they flew away: one was Chosroes and the other Caesar."

Muslim (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates that a man came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: "O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)! I saw in a dream a man coming out of the ground. Over his head stood a man as a guard, holding an iron mace in his hand. Whenever he brought his head out of the ground, that man struck him on the head with the mace, and he sank back into the ground. Then he would come out from another place, and that man would come to him again and strike him on the head with the mace." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "That person is Abu Jahl bin Hisham. This will keep being done to him until the Day of Resurrection."

It is narrated from Abd al-Rahman bin Abi Layla that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him): "I saw in a dream that black sheep were walking behind me, and behind them were dust-coloured sheep." Sayyiduna Abu Bakr al-Siddiq (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "O Messenger of Allah! These are the Arabs, who will follow you, and behind them will walk the non-Arabs." The narrator says that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The angel too gave this same interpretation of the dream."

Al-Hurr bin al-Sayyah says that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The angel too gave this same interpretation at dawn."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that a man came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: "I saw a cloud from which ghee and honey were dripping, and the people were taking from it. Some were taking much, some little, and some in between. Meanwhile a rope was let down from the sky. You came, took hold of that rope and climbed up, and Allah Almighty took you to the heights. Then a man came after you; he too took hold of the rope and began to climb, and Allah Almighty brought him too to the heights. Then another man came after the two of you; he took hold of the rope and began to climb, and Allah brought him too up. Then after the three of you a man took hold of that rope, and it was cut. Then it was joined again, and that man too began to climb, and Allah brought him too up." Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)! Permit me to give the interpretation of this dream." He gave him permission, and he said: "The cloud means Islam, and the ghee and honey mean the Qur'an. The rope means the path you are on, climbing on and on to the heights, and Allah Almighty will bring you to the heights. Then after you a man will walk in your footsteps and keep climbing to the heights, and Allah Almighty will bring him too up. Then a man will come after the two of you, walk in your footsteps and go towards the heights, and Allah Almighty will bring him too up. Then after the three of you a man will walk in your footsteps. Then an obstacle will come before him, and then that obstacle will be removed, so he will go towards the heights, and Allah Almighty will bring him too to the heights." After this he said: "O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)! Did I give the right interpretation?" He said: "You were right in part of the interpretation and you also made a mistake." He said: "O Messenger of Allah! I adjure you to tell me." He said: "Do not adjure me."

Abd al-Rahman bin Abi Bakrah narrates from his father (may Allah be pleased with him), who said: We came with Ziyad as a delegation to Sayyiduna Mu'awiyah (may Allah be pleased with him), and he was not as pleased with any delegation as he was with us. The narrator says that he said: "O Abu Bakrah! Tell us something you heard from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)." He said: "I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say, and he used to like good dreams, about which he (peace and blessings be upon him) would be asked; he was saying: 'I saw in a dream that a scale was sent down from the sky. Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) and I were weighed in it, and I outweighed Abu Bakr. Then Abu Bakr and Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) were weighed, and Abu Bakr outweighed him. Then Umar and Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) were weighed, and Umar outweighed Uthman. Then the scale was taken up to the sky.'" Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "This is a caliphate of prophethood; after that Allah Almighty will give kingship to whomever He wills." Sayyiduna Abu Bakrah says: Then we were seized by the napes of our necks and put out.

Musa bin Uqbah (may Allah have mercy on him) says that Salim (may Allah have mercy on him) related to him, through Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both), the dream of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) concerning the epidemic of Madinah: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I saw a black woman with dishevelled hair who came out of Madinah until she reached a place called Mahya'ah and stopped there. I took its interpretation to be that the epidemic of Madinah had been transferred to Mahya'ah."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that one morning the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) came out to us and said: "I have just seen that I was given scales and keys. As for the keys, they are these keys, and the scales are those with which you weigh. I was placed in one pan and my nation was placed in the other, and I outweighed them. Then Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) was brought and weighed, and he outweighed. Then Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) was brought and weighed, and he too outweighed. Then Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) was brought and weighed, and he too outweighed." He said: "Then the scales were taken up." The narrator says that a man said to him: "Then where will we be?" He said: "In the place where you put yourselves."

Salim narrates from his father, Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him), who said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I saw in a dream that I was drawing the bucket of a pulley fixed over a well. Then Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) came and drew out one or two buckets, and he drew weakly, and Allah Almighty will forgive him. Then Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) came and began to draw water, and the bucket took the form of a very large bucket. I have not seen any mighty man who did such excellent work as he did, until the people had drunk their fill and began to settle their camels near the water."

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."

It is narrated from Kharashah bin al-Hurr, who said: I came to Madinah and sat with some elderly men in the mosque who were Companions of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). An elderly man came, leaning on a staff, and the people said: "Whoever wishes to see a man of Paradise, let him look at this man." The narrator says that he stood behind a pillar and prayed two rak'ahs. I got up, went to him and said: "Some people are saying such and such." He replied: "Allah Almighty will admit to Paradise whomever He wills, but I saw a dream in the time of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). I saw that a man came to me and said to me: 'Come along.' I went with him, and he took me towards a great road. On my left another road spread out, and I wished to walk on that road, but it was said: 'You are not of the people of this road.' Then a road spread out on my right, and I walked on that road until I reached a slippery mountain. The man took me by the hand and took me up until I reached its summit, but I could not stay in place and my feet would not hold firm. Meanwhile I saw an iron pillar at the top of which was a ring of gold. The man took me by the hand and pushed me until I took hold of the ring. He said: 'Hold on to it firmly.' I said: 'Very well.' He kicked the pillar with his foot, and I held firmly to the ring. I related this dream to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and he said: 'You have seen something good. The great road is the plain of the Gathering. The road that spread out on your left is the road of the people of Hell, and you are not of them. The road that spread out on your right is the road of the people of Paradise. The slippery mountain is the station of the martyrs. The ring you held on to is the ring of Islam; hold on to it firmly until death comes to you.'" That elderly Companion said: "I hope that I will be among the people of Paradise." The narrator says: It turned out that this Companion was Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Salam (may Allah be pleased with him).

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I saw in a dream that I was in the house of Uqbah bin Rafi', and fresh dates belonging to a man named Ibn Tab were brought to us. I took the interpretation of this dream to be that for us there is elevation and loftiness in this world and a good end in the Hereafter, and that our religion is a pure religion."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I saw in a dream as though I were in a strong coat of mail, and I saw a slaughtered cow. I took the interpretation of this dream to be that the coat of mail means Madinah, and the cow (baqar) means a ripping open (baqr)."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I saw in the state of a dream that I had a ram riding behind me, and as though the edge of my sword had broken. I took the interpretation of this dream to be that I would kill the standard-bearer."

Affan said: There was something after this, but I did not know what it was.

Sayyiduna Samurah bin Jundub (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that a man said to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him): "I saw in a dream that a bucket was let down from the sky. Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) came, took hold of its cross-bars and drank some water, but there was some weakness in him. Then Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) came, took hold of its cross-bars and began to drink until he was full. Then Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) came; he too took hold of the bucket's cross-bars, drew water and drank, until he too was full."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both), who said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I saw in a dream that moisture was flowing between my nails." The Companions (may Allah be pleased with them) said: "What interpretation did you take from it?" He said: "By it I understood knowledge."