Interpretation of Dreams

Book 35 of 38 · Sunan Ibn Majah

34 hadith Hadith 3627–3660 Sunni
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Book 35 of 38

Interpretation of Dreams

Sunan Ibn Majah

34 hadith Hadith 3627–3660 Sunni

About This Book

Compiled during the 840–887 CE period by Ibn Majah.

Interpretation of Dreams is book 35 of 38 in Sunan Ibn Majah, containing 34 hadith.

Geography

This collection was compiled primarily in Qazvin, Iran. The narrators in this book are associated with 12 distinct geographic locations.

Basra Kufa Hamadan Makkah Khurasan Medina Wasit Damascus Yemen Basri Jordon al-Raqqa

Narrators in This Book

This book features 118 narrators in its chains of transmission. The most frequently cited are Abu Bakr bin Abi Shayba أبو بكر بن أبي شيبة, Aisha bint Abi Bakr, Sufyan bin Sa‘id Ath-Thawri سفيان الثوري, Abu Hurairah, Waki' bin al-Jarrah وكيع بن الجراح.

Hadith in This Book 34 hadith

1 3627
“A good dream from a righteous man is one of the forty-six parts of prophecy.”
2 3628
“The dream of a believer is one of the forty-six parts of prophecy.”
3 3629
“The dream of a righteous Muslim man is one of the seventy parts of prophecy.”
4 3630
“I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: ‘Prophecy is gone, but good dreams remain.’”
5 3631
“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: ‘A righteous dream is one of the seventy parts of prophecy.’”
6 3632
“I asked the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) the about the Saying of Allah, Glorious is He: ‘For them are glad tidings, in the life of the present world, and in the Hereafter.” He said:…
7 3633
“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) drew aside the curtain when he was sick, and the rows (of worshippers) were behind Abu Bakr. He said: ‘O people, nothing of the glad tidings of…
8 3634
“Whoever sees me in a dream, has seen me in reality, for Satan cannot appear in my form.”
9 3635
“Whoever sees me in a dream has (really) seen me, for Satan cannot appear in my form.”
10 3636
“Whoever sees me in a dream has (really) seen me, for Satan cannot appear in my form.”
11 3637
“Whoever sees me in a dream has (really) seen me, for Satan cannot imitate me.”
12 3638
“Whoever sees me in a dream, it is as if he has seen me when he is awake, for Satan is not able to resemble me.”
13 3639
“Whoever sees me in a dream has (really) sees me, for Satan cannot imitate me.”
14 3640
“Dreams are of three types: Glad tidings from Allah, what is on a person’s mind, and frightening dreams from Satan. If any of you sees a dream that he likes, let him tell others…
15 3641
“Dreams are of three types: Some are terrifying things from Satan, aimed at causing grief to the son of Adam; some are things that a person is concerned with when he is awake, so…
16 3642
“If anyone of you sees a dream that he dislikes, let him spit dryly to his left three times and seek refuge with Allah from Satan three times, and turn over onto his other side.”
17 3643
“(Good) dreams come from Allah and (bad) dreams come from Satan, so if anyone of you sees something that he dislikes, let him spit dryly to his left three times, and seek refuge…
18 3644
“If anyone of you sees a dream that he dislikes, let him turn over and spit dryly to his left three times, and ask Allah for its good and seek refuge from its evil.”
19 3645
“A man came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and said: ‘I saw my head was cut off and I saw it rolling away.’ The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: ‘Satan goes to one of you and terrifies him, then…
20 3646
“A man came to the Prophet (ﷺ) when he was delivering a sermon and said: ‘O Messenger of Allah! Last night in my dream I saw my neck being struck and my head fell off,…
21 3647
“If anyone of you has a bad dream, he should not tell people about how Satan played with him in his dream.”
22 3648
“Dreams are attached to the foot of a bird* until they are interpreted, then when they are interpreted they come to pass.” He said: “And dreams are one of the forty-six parts of…
23 3649
“Interpret them (dreams) in accordance with the names of the things you see, and understand what is hinted at, and the dream is for the first interpreter.”
24 3650
“Whoever tells of a false dream, will be ordered (on the Day of Resurrection) to tie two grains of barley together, and he will be punished for that.”
25 3651
“When the end of time draws near, hardly any believer will see a false dream, and the ones who see the truest dreams will be the ones who are truest in speech. And the dream of…
26 3652
“A man came to the Prophet (ﷺ), upon his return from Uhud, and said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, in my dream I saw a cloud giving shade, from which drops of ghee and honey were…
27 3653
“I was a young unmarried man at the time of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), and I used to stay overnight in the mosque. If any of us had seen a dream, he would tell it to the Prophet…
28 3654
“I came to Al-Madinah and sat with some old men in the mosque of the Prophet (ﷺ). Then an old man came, leaning on his stick, and the people said: ‘Whoever would like to look at a…
29 3655
“In a dream I saw myself emigrating from Makkah to a land in which there were date-palm trees, and I thought that it was Yamamah or Hajar, but it was Al-Madinah, Yathrib. And I…
30 3656
“I saw wristbands of gold on my arms, so I blew into them, and I interpreted them as being these two liars, Musailimah and ‘Ansi.”
31 3657
“Umm Fadl said: ‘O Messenger of Allah! It is as if I saw (in a dream) one of your limbs in my house.’ He said: ‘What you have seen is good. Fatimah will give birth to a boy and…
32 3658
“I saw a black woman with disheveled hair, who left Al-Madinah and went to stay in Al- Mahya’ah, which is Juhfah. I interpreted it as referring to an epidemic in Al-Madinah which…
33 3659
“I saw in a dream that I was at the gate of Paradise and I saw them (those two men). Someone came out of Paradise and admitted the one who had died last, then he came out and…
34 3660
“I dislike (to see in a dream) a chain around the neck, but I like to see fetters on the feet, for fetters (represent) steadfastness in religion.”