Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) very often used to ask his companions, "Did anyone of you see a dream?" So dream
would be narrated to him by those whom Allah wished to tell
One morning the Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Last night two persons came to me (in a dream) and woke me up an
said to me, 'Proceed!' I set out with them and we came across a man lying down, and behold, anothe
man was standing over his head, holding a big rock. Behold, he was throwing the rock at the man'
head, injuring it. The rock rolled away and the thrower followed it and took it back. By the time h
reached the man, his head returned to the normal state. The thrower then did the same as he had don
before
I said to my two companions, 'Subhan Allah! Who are these two persons?' They said, 'Proceed!' S
we proceeded and came to a man lying flat on his back and another man standing over his head wit
an iron hook, and behold, he would put the hook in one side of the man's mouth and tear off that sid
of his face to the back (of the neck) and similarly tear his nose from front to back and his eye fro
front to back. Then he turned to the other side of the man's face and did just as he had done with th
other side. He hardly completed this side when the other side returned to its normal state. Then h
returned to it to repeat what he had done before. I said to my two companions, 'Subhan Allah! Wh
are these two persons?' They said to me, 'Proceed!' So we proceeded and came across something like
Tannur (a kind of baking oven, a pit usually clay-lined for baking bread)." I think the Prophet (ﷺ) said, "I
that oven there was much noise and voices." The Prophet (ﷺ) added, "We looked into it and found nake
men and women, and behold, a flame of fire was reaching to them from underneath, and when i
reached them, they cried loudly
I asked them, 'Who are these?' They said to me, 'Proceed!' And so we proceeded and came across
river." I think he said, ".... red like blood." The Prophet (ﷺ) added, "And behold, in the river there was
man swimming, and on the bank there was a man who had collected many stones. Behold, while th
other man was swimming, he went near him. The former opened his mouth and the latter (on th
bank) threw a stone into his mouth whereupon he went swimming again. He returned and every tim
the performance was repeated
I asked my two companions, 'Who are these (two) persons?' They replied, 'Proceed! Proceed!' And w
proceeded till we came to a man with a repulsive appearance, the most repulsive appearance, you eve
saw a man having! Beside him there was a fire and he was kindling it and running around it
I asked my companions, 'Who is this (man)?' They said to me, 'Proceed! Proceed!' So we proceede
till we reached a garden of deep green dense vegetation, having all sorts of spring colors. In the mids
of the garden there was a very tall man and I could hardly see his head because of his great height, an
around him there were children in such a large number as I have never seen
I said to my companions, 'Who is this?' They replied, 'Proceed! Proceed!' So we proceeded till w
came to a majestic huge garden, greater and better than I have ever seen! My two companions said t
me, 'Go up' and I went up. The Prophet (ﷺ) added, "So we ascended till we reached a city built of gold an
silver bricks and we went to its gate and asked (the gatekeeper) to open the gate, and it was opene
and we entered the city and found in it, men with one side of their bodies as handsome as th
handsomest person you have ever seen, and the other side as ugly as the ugliest person you have eve
seen. My two companions ordered those men to throw themselves into the river. Behold, there was
river flowing across (the city), and its water was like milk in whiteness
Those men went and threw themselves in it and then returned to us after the ugliness (of their bodies
had disappeared and they became in the best shape." The Prophet (ﷺ) further added, "My two companion
(angels) said to me, 'This place is the Eden Paradise, and that is your place.' I raised up my sight, an
behold, there I saw a palace like a white cloud
My two companions said to me, 'That (palace) is your place.' I said to them, 'May Allah bless yo
both! Let me enter it.' They replied, 'As for now, you will not enter it, but you shall enter it (one day)
I said to them, 'I have seen many wonders tonight. What does all that mean which I have seen?
They replied, 'We will inform you
As for the first man you came upon whose head was being injured with the rock, he is the symbol o
the one who studies the Qur'an and then neither recites it nor acts on its orders, and sleeps, neglectin
the enjoined prayers
As for the man you came upon whose sides of mouth, nostrils and eyes were torn off from front t
back, he is the symbol of the man who goes out of his house in the morning and tells so many lies tha
it spreads all over the world. And those naked men and women whom you saw in a constructio
resembling an oven, they are the adulterers and the adulteresses
And the man whom you saw swimming in the river and given a stone to swallow, is the eater of usur
(Riba)
And the bad looking man whom you saw near the fire kindling it and going round it, is Malik, th
gatekeeper of Hell
And the tall man whom you saw in the garden, is Abraham and the children around him are thos
children who die with Al-Fitra (the Islamic Faith)
The narrator added: Some Muslims asked the Prophet, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! What about the children o
pagans?" The Prophet (ﷺ) replied, "And also the children of pagans.
The Prophet (ﷺ) added, "My two companions added, 'The men you saw half handsome and half ugly wer
those persons who had mixed an act that was good with another that was bad, but Allah forgav
them.'" - Hadith Al Bukhari 7047 (islam)
Book 91, Hadith 61
Vol. 9, Book 87, Hadith 171
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