Manners to follow regarding dreams

عن أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ رضي الله عنه عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ: «إِذَا اقْتَرَبَ الزَّمَانُ، لَمْ تَكَدْ رُؤْيَا الْمُسْلِمِ تَكْذِبُ، وَأَصْدَقُكُمْ رُؤْيَا أَصْدَقُكُمْ حَدِيثًا، وَرُؤْيَا الْمُسْلِمِ جُزْءٌ مِنْ خَمْسٍ وَأَرْبَعِينَ جُزْءًا مِنَ النُّبُوَّةِ، وَالرُّؤْيَا ثَلَاثَةٌ: فَرُؤْيَا الصَّالِحَةِ بُشْرَى مِنَ اللهِ، وَرُؤْيَا تَحْزِينٌ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ، وَرُؤْيَا مِمَّا يُحَدِّثُ الْمَرْءُ نَفْسَهُ، فَإِنْ رَأَى أَحَدُكُمْ مَا يَكْرَهُ، فَلْيَقُمْ فَلْيُصَلِّ، وَلَا يُحَدِّثْ بِهَا النَّاسَ»

تحميل الملف الصوتي

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:

1. When the time draws near (when the Resurrection is near) a believer's dream can hardly be false. 2. And the truest vision will be of one who is himself the most truthful in speech 3. for the vision of a Muslim is the forty-fifth part of Prophecy 4. and dreams are of three types: one good dream which is a sort of good tidings from Allah. 5. the evil dream which causes pain is from the Satan. 6. and the third one is a suggestion of one's own mind. 7. so if any one of you sees a dream which he does not like he should stand up and offer prayer and he should not relate it to people.’

‘Abd al-Raḥmān ibn Ṣakhr

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‘Abd al-Raḥmān ibn Ṣakhr belonged to the Daws tribe, a branch of the major Arabian tribe of Azd. The Daws used to live at Maʼrib, but later dispersed and lived in different areas. He embraced Islam in Year 7 AH, 629 CE, moving to Madinah and remaining close to the Prophet (peace be upon him). He was very keen to acquire Islamic knowledge and memorize the hadith. He narrated the largest number of the Prophet’s hadiths. He died in Madinah in Year 58 AH, 678 CE.