Partial Translation of Sahih Muslim, Book 28:

Vision (Kitab Al-Ruya)


Book 28, Number 5620:

Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah:

Allah's Messenger (peace_be_upon_him) said: If anyone sees a dream which he does not like, he should spit on his left side.


Book 28, Number 5632:

Narrated Abdullah ibn Umar:

Allah's Messenger (peace_be_upon_him) said: The pious dreams are the seventieth part of Prophecy.


Book 28, Number 5638:

Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah:

Allah's Messenger (peace_be_upon_him) said: He who saw me in sleep in fact saw me, for it is not possible for the satan to appear in my form; and he also said: When any one of you sees a hulm he should not inform anyone, for it is a sort of vain sport of devil in the state of sleep.


Book 28, Number 5639:

Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah:

Allah's Messenger (peace_be_upon_him) said: He who saw me in a dream in fact saw me, for the satan cannot assume my form.


Book 28, Number 5640:

Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah:

Allah's Messenger (peace_be_upon_him) said: There came to him (the Prophet) a desert Arab and said: I saw in a dream that I had been beheaded and I had been following it (the severed head). Allah's Apostle (peace_be_upon_him) reprimanded him saying: Do not inform about the vain sporting of devil with you during the night.


Book 28, Number 5642:

Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah:

A person came to Allah's Apostle (peace_be_upon_him) and said: Allah's Messenger, I have seen in the state of sleep as if my head had been cut off. Thereupon Allah's Apostle (peace_be_upon_him) laughed and said: When the satan plays with any one of you in the state of sleep, do not mention it to the people.

And in the hadith transmitted by AbuBakr (the words are): If one of you is played with, and he did not make any mention of the word: "Satan."


Book 28, Number 5647:

Narrated Anas ibn Malik:

Allah's Messenger (peace_be_upon_him) said: I saw during the night that which a person sees during the sleep as if we are in the house of Uqbah ibn Rafi' that there was brought to us the fresh dates of Ibn Tab. I interpreted it as the sublimity for us in the world and good ending in the Hereafter and that our religion is good.


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