Volume 3, Book 33, Number 252:
Narrated Abu Salama bin ‘Abdur-Rahman:
I asked Abu Said Al-Khudri, “Did you hear Allah’s Apostle talking about the Night of Qadr?” He
replied in the affirmative and said, “Once we were in Itikaf with Allah’s Apostle in the middle ten
days of (Ramadan) and we came out of it in the morning of the twentieth, and Allah’s Apostle- de –
livered a sermon on the 20th (of Ramadan) and said, ‘I was informed (of the date) of the Night of
Qadr (in my dream) but had forgotten it. So, look for it in the odd nights of the last ten nights of the
month of Ramadan. I saw myself prostrating in mud and water on that night (as a sign of the Night
of Qadr). So, whoever had been in Itikaf with Allah’s Apostle should return for it.’ The people re –
turned to the mosque (for Itikaf). There was no trace of clouds in the sky. But all of a sudden a cloud
came and it rained. Then the prayer was established (they stood for the prayer) and Allah’s Apostle
prostrated in mud and water and I saw mud over the forehead and the nose of the Prophet.