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Sahih al-Bukhari 6994

The Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) said, “Whoever has seen me in a dream, then no doubt, he has seen me, for Satan cannot imitate my shape.”

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حَدَّثَنَا مُعَلَّى بْنُ أَسَدٍ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ مُخْتَارٍ، حَدَّثَنَا ثَابِتٌ الْبُنَانِيُّ، عَنْ أَنَسٍ رضى الله عنه

قَالَ: قَالَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَنْ رَآنِي فِي الْمَنَامِ فَقَدْ رَآنِي، فَإِنَّ الشَّيْطَانَ لَا يَتَخَيَّلُ بِي، وَرُؤْيَا الْمُؤْمِنِ جُزْءٌ مِنْ سِتَّةٍ وَأَرْبَعِينَ جُزْءًا مِنَ النُّبُوَّةِ»

The Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) said, “Whoever has seen me in a dream, then no doubt, he has seen me, for Satan cannot imitate my shape.”

আনাস (রাঃ) হতে বর্ণিত। তিনি বলেন, রাসূলুল্লাহ সাল্লাল্লাহু আলাইহি ওয়াসাল্লাম বলেছেনঃ যে আমাকে ঘুমন্ত অবস্থায় দেখল সে আমাকেই দেখল। কারণ শয়তান আমার আকৃতি ধরতে পারে না। আর মু’মিনের স্বপ্ন নবুয়তের ছেচল্লিশ ভাগের এক ভাগ। [৬৯৮৩; মুসলিম পর্ব ৪২/হাঃ ২২৬৪, আহমাদ ১২০৩৭]

ہم سے معلی بن اسد نے بیان کیا، انہوں نے کہا ہم سے عبدالعزیز بن مختار نے بیان کیا، انہوں نے کہا ہم سے ثابت بنانی نے بیان کیا اور ان سے انس بن مالک رضی اللہ عنہ نے بیان کیا کہ نبی کریم صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم نے فرمایا ”جس نے مجھے خواب میں دیکھا تو اس نے واقعی دیکھا کیونکہ شیطان میری صورت میں نہیں آ سکتا اور مومن کا خواب نبوت کے چھیالیس حصوں میں سے ایک جزو ہوتا ہے۔“

Telah menceritakan kepada kami [Mu'allaa bin Asad] telah menceritakan kepada kami ['Abdul 'Aziz bin Mukhtar] telah menceritakan kepada kami [Tsabit Al Bunani] dari [Anas] radliallahu 'anhu mengatakan, Nabi shallallahu 'alaihi wasallam bersabda: "Siapa melihatku dalam mimpi, berarti ia telah melihatku, sebab setan tidak bisa menjelma sepertiku, dan mimpi seorang mukmin adalah sebagian dari empat puluh enam bagian kenabian

Enes'in nakline göre Resulullah Sallallahu Aleyhi ve Sellem şöyle buyurmuştur: "Kim beni rüyada görürse muhakkak o beni görmüştür. Çünkü şeytan benim kılığıma giremez. mu'minin rüyası, Nebiliğin kırk altı cüzünden bir cüzdür

Sahih al-Bukhari 6994, Book 91, Interpretation of Dreams, Hadith 13. 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 al-Bukhari back to the one who was there.

  1. 1Imam al-BukhariCompiler, died 256 AH
  2. 2Mualla ibn AsadTold us, Fourth generation, died 218 AH
  3. 3Abd al-Aziz ibn al-MukhtarTold us, Third generation, died 171 AH
  4. 4Thabit al-BunaniTold us, Successor, died 122 AH
  5. 5Anas ibn MalikFrom, Companion, died 90 AH

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