Is seeing the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) in a dream considered a true vision, and that the dreamer has truly seen the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)?

The Shaykh: All right, who has a question?

The questioner: If you please, Shaykh?

The Shaykh: Go ahead.

The questioner: First: Of course, greetings from the young men of Kuwait.

The Shaykh : Welcome.

The questioner: To your eminence.

The Shaykh : Peace and mercy of Allah and His blessings be upon you and them.

The questioner: May Allah reward you with good, Shaykh.

The Shaykh : And beware of that.

The questioner: First: There is a matter regarding creed.

The Shaykh: Yes.

The questioner: Is seeing the Prophet - (peace and blessings be upon him) - in a dream a reality?

The Shaykh: I mean, other than the actual ascension while awake?

The questioner: No, no, in our current time, he says: I saw the Prophet - (peace and blessings be upon him) - in a dream?!

The Shaykh: Is it possible to see the Messenger in a dream?!

The questioner: He says: I saw the Prophet - (peace and blessings be upon him) - in a dream?!

The Shaykh: Excuse me, I think I misheard the word "ascension."

The questioner: No, no.

The Shaykh: So then?

The questioner: He says: I saw the Prophet - (peace and blessings be upon him) - in a dream.

The Shaykh: In a dream, yes, all right, what is your question?

The questioner: Is it a reality, that one sees the Prophet - (peace and blessings be upon him) - in a dream?!

The Shaykh: Why not?! And many hadiths have come.

The questioner: Regarding the hadith: ?

The Shaykh : Yes?

The questioner : ؟!

The Shaykh: Yes, that is so.

The questioner: He says, Your Eminence.

The Shaykh: In the hadith: .

The Shaykh: Wait, have you finished the first question?

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh: Your question is deficient, and very incomplete!

The questioner: Yes!

The Shaykh: Because you asked about a matter that is self-evident in Islam.

The questioner: Hmm.

The Shaykh: And you should have phrased the question differently.

The questioner: I was afraid of being too long, Shaykh, but because I am in a hurry and I will travel tomorrow morning.

The Shaykh : Subhan Allah!

The questioner: The Fajr prayer.

The Shaykh: Yes, this does not justify you asking a question whose answer is clear!! And withholding the question whose answer is not clear.

The questioner: Correct.

The Shaykh: And so, may Allah suffice you, you are in a hurry and I am in a hurry with you, but as it was said: "Knowledge, if you seek it, is abundant *** And life is short for acquiring it, so prioritize the most important of it, then the most important ***" So the question should have been as follows: Does everyone who sees the Prophet - (peace and blessings be upon him) - in a dream truly see him? This is the important question in the matter, and this is what the general public should know. We say: First, not everyone who says he saw the Messenger in a dream is truthful; this is a bitter truth. And therefore he (peace and blessings be upon him) said in some authentic hadiths: that: , meaning whoever claims that he saw such and such is lying. And this is because the true vision is a part of the forty-seven parts of prophethood, as came in some authentic hadiths. So it is not permissible for a Muslim to claim to have seen what he did not see, to claim that he saw something and did not see it. This is first. And the summary of that is that not everyone who claims that he saw the Messenger - (peace be upon him) - is truthful that he saw the Messenger; he is lying, he is fabricating something. Then, and this is the important matter, if he is truthful, we say to him: How did you see him? If he describes what he saw of the Messenger - (peace be upon him) - as he claims, with the attributes by which he was known in his blessed life, then at that time we say to him: We hope that you truly saw the Messenger of Allah - (peace and blessings be upon him). Yes, here there is a point related to the hadith when he - (peace be upon him) - said: . If the dreamer claims that he saw the Messenger - (peace be upon him) - and this is what we have heard repeatedly and over and over: that he saw the Messenger - (peace be upon him) - and his beard was white, all light, we say to him: You lied. Because the servant of the Messenger - (peace be upon him) - when he spoke about his graying - (peace be upon him) - said: . He says his beard is white, but Satan deceived him that he is praising the Messenger of Allah and speaking well of him when he says: his beard is light. The Messenger - (peace and blessings be upon him) - did not have in his beard except a small number of hairs, not reaching twenty, but less than that. Yes, so he did not see the Messenger. Some people say they saw him as a young man, but he walks slowly. We say to them: You lied. Because among his attributes was that when he walked, it was as if he was being lowered from a slope. So not everyone who is truthful in his claim that he saw the Messenger - (peace be upon him) - has seen the Messenger - (peace be upon him). But what is the interpretation? It was made to resemble him, it was made to resemble him: meaning he was told in the dream that this is the Messenger of Allah. This is the important point, may Allah bless you, regarding your question. So seize your time and bring the second question!