Did anyone of you have a dream? So dreams would be narrated to him by those whom Allah willed to relate. One day he said: Last night, I had a vision in which two men (angels) came to me, woke me up and said to me: Let’s go! So I set out with them

In this Hadīth, the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) tells his Companions about a dream he had. This was after the Fajr prayer according to other narrations. He told them what he had seen in the vision saying: “Last night, two people came to me when I was asleep, they woke me up and said: ‘Let’s go!’ and I set out with them.” They came across a man who was lying down.

Another man was standing over him, holding a big rock and he threw the rock at the other man's head, smashing it. The rock rolled away and the one who threw it followed it and picked it up. By the time he came back the other man’s head has been restored to its former state. Then the one who had thrown the rock did the same as he had done the first time. The Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) said: “I said to my two companions: 'Glory be to Allah!

Who are these two people?’ They said: ‘Let’s go!’ So we moved on.” They came to a man who was lying flat on his back. Another man was standing next to him holding an iron hook and he put the hook in the other man's mouth and tore that side of his face off to the back of his neck, and then he tore his nose off and his eye from front to back in a similar manner. He then turned to the other side of the man's face and did the same.

Once he had finished the second side, the first side had restored to its former state, so he went back and did the same thing again and again. The Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) said: “I said to my two companions: ‘Glory be to Allah! Who are these two people?’ They said: ‘Let’s go!’ So we went on and we came to something like a Tannūr.” They looked into the oven and saw naked men and women.

There was a flame reaching up to them from underneath and when it reached them, they cried out loudly in a way that could only mean that they were calling for help. The Messenger of Allah (may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him) asked: ”Who are they?” They said to him: “Let’s go!” So they went on and came to a river of blood. In the river, they saw a man swimming. On the bank there was another man who had gathered lots of stones.

The swimmer approached the man who had gathered the stones and opened his mouth and the man on the bank threw a stone into it. The swimmer carried on swimming. Each time he came back, he opened his mouth again and the man on the bank threw another stone into his mouth.

The Messenger of Allah (may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him) said to his two companions: ”Who are these two people?“ They said: “Let’s go, let’s go!” They went on and came to a man who had the most repulsive appearance imaginable. Beside him there was a fire, which he was kindling and running around.

The Messenger of Allah (may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him) asked his companions: ”Who is this man?“ They said: “Let’s go, let’s go!” So they went on until they reached a garden of dense deep green vegetation with all kinds of spring flowers. In the middle of this garden there was a very tall man, whose head he could hardly see because of his great height. Around him there were children; a great number, such as he had never seen.

He said to his companions: “Who is this man and who are these children?” They said: “Let’s go, let’s go!” So they went on until they came to a huge garden, bigger and better than any he had ever seen. His two companions said to him: “Go up that tree.” So they went up into it, until they reached a city built of gold and silver bricks. They went to the gate and asked for it to be opened.

It was opened and they entered the city, where they found men with one side of their bodies more handsome than the most handsome person the eye may ever have seen, and the other side uglier than the ugliest person the eye may ever have seen. The two angels ordered the men to go to a nearby river and bathe in it. It was a river flowing through the city and its water was as pure white as milk.

The men went and threw themselves into the river and came out with the ugliness removed from their bodies and they had been changed into the best form. The two companions told the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) that that was the Paradise of Eden. The Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) looked up and saw a palace like a white cloud, and his companions told him that that palace would be his abode.

The Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) supplicated for the two angels and asked them to let him enter it. They did not allow him to enter the palace and told him that he has not completed his life’s term yet, and that when he did, he would certainly enter it. After having been shown some scenes of the Hereafter, the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) said: “I have seen many wonders this night.

What do all these things that I have seen mean?” They said: “We will tell you. The first man you came across, whose head was being smashed with the rock, is a man who memorized the Qur’an then he neither recited it nor acted upon it, and he went to sleep neglecting the obligatory prayers.” Of course, rejection of the Qur’an is a heinous sin, because it gives the impression that he had found something that justified this behavior.

By rejecting the most honorable thing; the Qur’an, he was punished in the most honorable part of his body; his head. The man whose face was being torn, was a man who told a lie that spread all over the world. Such a person deserved this torment, because of the evils that arise from a lie that he told voluntarily without any coercion. The naked men and women who were in the oven were the adulterers and adulteresses.

They deserved the disgrace of being punished naked, because they usually seek concealment when committing adultery. The one who was swimming in the river with stones being thrown into his mouth was one who consumed usury. The ugly-looking man who was kindling a fire was Mālik; the keeper of Hell. The ugliness of his appearance was intended to intensify the torment of the people of Hell.

The tall man who was in the garden was Prophet Ibrahīm (peace be upon him) and the children around him were the children who had died upon the state of Fitrah before puberty or who were born upon the state of Fitrah and died before reaching adulthood.

Some of Muslims asked: "O Messenger of Allah, what about the children of the polytheists?” The Messenger of Allah (may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him) confirmed that the ruling applies equally to children of Muslims and children of polytheists.

As for the men who were half handsome and half ugly, they were people who mixed good deeds, which were represented by their handsome appearance, with bad ones, which were represented by their ugly appearance, but Allah forgave them and admitted them to the Paradise.