Volume 6, Book 60, Number 240:
Narrated Ibn Abbas:
Regarding: ‘And We granted the vision (Ascension to the Heaven “Miraj”) which We showed you
(O Muhammad as an actual eye witness) but as a trial for mankind.’ (17.60) It was an actual eye-
witness which was shown to Allah’s Apostle during the night he was taken on a journey (through the
heavens). And the cursed tree is the tree of Az-Zaqqum (a bitter pungent tree which grows at the
bottom of Hell).