Volume 9, Book 87, Number 142:
Narrated ‘Abdullah bin Salam:
(In a dream) I saw myself in a garden, and there was a pillar in the middle of the garden, and
there was a handhold at the top of the pillar. I was asked to climb it. I said, “I cannot.” Then a servant
came and lifted up my clothes and I climbed (the pillar), and then got hold of the handhold, and I
woke up while still holding it. I narrated that to the Prophet who said, “The garden symbolizes the
garden of Islam, and the handhold is the firm Islamic handhold which indicates that you will be ad –
hering firmly to Islam until you die.”