What is the ruling on seeing the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) in a dream?
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The Shaykh : Do you mean that these scholars you are referring to hold that this ruling is specific to the Companions of the Prophet who saw him with their own eyes? Yes, so if these people see him in a dream, it means they are seeing him because they saw him with their eyes before.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Is that what you mean? May Allah reward you, I have understood you now, correct? So you have nothing left to do but understand me correctly.
The questioner : I take the correct position from you.
The Shaykh : If Allah wills.
The questioner : I am your Shaykh, your name is Muhammad Shuqara.
The Shaykh : You are welcome.
The questioner : Oh, wonderful.
The Shaykh : Your voice was missing from me.
The questioner : No, by Allah, I did not want to tell you if I was in the Tent of Islam immediately.
The Shaykh : I usually recognize your voice.
The questioner : Your presence, what Allah willed, I mean.
The Shaykh : May Allah bless you.
The questioner : May Allah prolong your life, if Allah wills.
The Shaykh : May Allah preserve you and reward you with good. The answer, may Allah bless you, is that this is excessive asceticism
The questioner : Excessive asceticism.
The Shaykh : Yes, and it is an overburdening in rejecting this authentic hadith, because in some hadithsSahih al-Bukhari 6993 while awake
The questioner :
The Shaykh : Yes, this is a glad tidings for him that he will see him in Paradise.
The questioner : Oh, wonderful.
The Shaykh : And just as this hadith includes everyone who sees him, so your first hadith includes everyone who sees him,
The questioner : Oh, wonderful.
The Shaykh : But yes, the scope here is only from the side that the specification, yes, which I explained to you earlier, is not intended, only, yes, intended is what is broader than that, yes, but this same generality is also restricted. How? Whoever saw him (peace and blessings be upon him) with his attributes and characteristics by which we know him (peace and blessings be upon him). Yes. From his characteristics, as if we see him with our own eyes. If he sees him like this, then his dream will be true, as he (peace and blessings be upon him) said. But if he sees him with another attribute, then he has not seen him.
The questioner : We did not desire.
The Shaykh : I am going to give you an example I am accustomed to giving to make people understand. Many people have told me about a dream in which one of them saw the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). He asked him, "How did you see him?" He said, "I saw him, what Allah willed, with a white, noble beard. He was like a judge, I mean, a judge of desire, they say in Syria. Yes. Do you understand how? But the poor man did not understand that he did not see the Messenger, because the Messenger, we read in the *Shama'il* and in the description of his servant Anas, who served him for ten years, that Allah, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did not resemble Allah with old age, yes. So he did not have a white, shining beard as this dreamer claims. Yes.
The questioner : Okay, and how is this consistent with the fact that Satan does not resemble me?
The Shaykh : This is the point here. Is this the person he saw with the white beard the Messenger?
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : No, it is not the Messenger.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : If this Satan took the form of other than the attribute of the Messenger[Al-An'am 6:19] to the sleeper that I am the Messenger,
The questioner : Yes, okay, may Allah reward you with good,
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Is that what you mean? May Allah reward you, I have understood you now, correct? So you have nothing left to do but understand me correctly.
The questioner : I take the correct position from you.
The Shaykh : If Allah wills.
The questioner : I am your Shaykh, your name is Muhammad Shuqara.
The Shaykh : You are welcome.
The questioner : Oh, wonderful.
The Shaykh : Your voice was missing from me.
The questioner : No, by Allah, I did not want to tell you if I was in the Tent of Islam immediately.
The Shaykh : I usually recognize your voice.
The questioner : Your presence, what Allah willed, I mean.
The Shaykh : May Allah bless you.
The questioner : May Allah prolong your life, if Allah wills.
The Shaykh : May Allah preserve you and reward you with good. The answer, may Allah bless you, is that this is excessive asceticism
The questioner : Excessive asceticism.
The Shaykh : Yes, and it is an overburdening in rejecting this authentic hadith, because in some hadiths
Whoever sees me in a dream will see me
من رآني في المنام فسيرانيThe questioner :
will see me while awake.
فسيراني يقظة.The Shaykh : Yes, this is a glad tidings for him that he will see him in Paradise.
The questioner : Oh, wonderful.
The Shaykh : And just as this hadith includes everyone who sees him, so your first hadith includes everyone who sees him,
The questioner : Oh, wonderful.
The Shaykh : But yes, the scope here is only from the side that the specification, yes, which I explained to you earlier, is not intended, only, yes, intended is what is broader than that, yes, but this same generality is also restricted. How? Whoever saw him (peace and blessings be upon him) with his attributes and characteristics by which we know him (peace and blessings be upon him). Yes. From his characteristics, as if we see him with our own eyes. If he sees him like this, then his dream will be true, as he (peace and blessings be upon him) said. But if he sees him with another attribute, then he has not seen him.
The questioner : We did not desire.
The Shaykh : I am going to give you an example I am accustomed to giving to make people understand. Many people have told me about a dream in which one of them saw the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). He asked him, "How did you see him?" He said, "I saw him, what Allah willed, with a white, noble beard. He was like a judge, I mean, a judge of desire, they say in Syria. Yes. Do you understand how? But the poor man did not understand that he did not see the Messenger, because the Messenger, we read in the *Shama'il* and in the description of his servant Anas, who served him for ten years, that Allah, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did not resemble Allah with old age, yes. So he did not have a white, shining beard as this dreamer claims. Yes.
The questioner : Okay, and how is this consistent with the fact that Satan does not resemble me?
The Shaykh : This is the point here. Is this the person he saw with the white beard the Messenger?
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : No, it is not the Messenger.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : If this Satan took the form of other than the attribute of the Messenger
And this Qur'an was revealed to me
وَأُوحِيَ إِلَيَّ هَٰذَاThe questioner : Yes, okay, may Allah reward you with good,
Source
سلسلة الهدى والنور، المجلس 924 — d3watuna.com (2:28)
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