Are Prophetic hadiths established by dreams?

The questioner : ... In some books, certain dreams and visions are mentioned, such as when a person says, for example, "I saw the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) in a dream."

The Shaykh : Let the group listen so that they may benefit from your question.

The questioner : In some books on the men of hadith, certain dreams and visions are mentioned, such as when a person says, "I saw the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and he narrated to me hadiths from so-and-so, but he did not recognize all of them, only five or so." What is the standard for these... or these visions in the critique and vindication of narrators?

The Shaykh : They have no value, neither in the science of the critique and vindication of narrators nor in the science of Islamic jurisprudence. No legal ruling is based on them, especially if what appears in the vision contradicts a legal ruling. If a man... that he... and it is likely that he saw him truly, as he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Suppose a man saw the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) truly in this manner... a prayer that is not known... If the vision is not of this specific type to which his statement (peace and blessings be upon him) applies, which I mentioned earlier, therefore, visions are only good news and no ruling is based on them. If a dreamer claims that he saw the Messenger (peace be upon him) and asked him about ten hadiths, and he confirmed five of them and denied the other five, those other five are examined according to the rules of the scholars of hadith. If these rules establish their authenticity, either all of them or some of them, then what is established by these rules is accepted, and no attention is paid to the vision in which he saw the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) denying these five hadiths. In reality, this draws attention to the fact that opening the door to relying on and trusting visions, even if they are related to seeing the Messenger (peace be upon him), opens a door for the Muslims that was opened by some of the deviants from the Sunnah in the past, who are known as the Sufis. Some of their extremists and those sunk in the mud of their Sufism have explicitly stated in many... that these hadiths were authentic through unveiling, even if they were not established through the path of the scholars of hadith, so they narrated them based on the unveilings they claimed. Therefore, there is no way to know the authentic hadith from the defective one except this science that Allah (Mighty and Majestic) inspired in the early imams of hadith, and the later scholars followed their path. This is the way to know what is authentic from what is not; it is not unveiling, nor vision, nor reason, as many contemporary writers or Islamic preachers claim, as some of them assert that they use their minds in judging hadiths, so whatever they accept from those hadiths is authentic, and what... This and that, all of this is a deviation from the path of the believers. And Allah (Mighty and Majestic) says: This.

The questioner : ... .

The Shaykh : And may He reward you.