Volume 6, Book 60, Number 196:
Narrated Samura bin Jundab:
Allah’s Apostle said, “Tonight two (visitors) came to me (in my dream) and took me to a town built
with gold bricks and silver bricks. There we met men who, half of their bodies, look like the most-
handsome human beings you have ever seen, and the other half, the ugliest human beings you have
ever seen. Those two visitors said to those men, ‘Go and dip yourselves in that river. So they dipped
themselves therein and then came to us, their ugliness having disappeared and they were in the
most-handsome shape. The visitors said, ‘The first is the Garden of Eden and that is your dwelling
place.’ Then they added, ‘As for those people who were half ugly and half handsome, they were those
who mixed good deeds and bad deeds, but Allah forgave them.”
Volume 3, Book 34, Number 298:
Narrated Samura bin Jundab:
The Prophet said, “This night I dreamt that two men came and took me to a Holy land whence we
proceeded on till we reached a river of blood, where a man was standing, and on its bank was stand –
ing another man with stones in his hands. The man in the middle of the river tried to come out, but
the other threw a stone in his mouth and forced him to go back to his original place. So, whenever
he tried to come out, the other man would throw a stone in his mouth and force him to go back to
his former place. I asked, ‘Who is this?’ I was told, ‘The person in the river was a Riba-eater.”
Volume 2, Book 23, Number 468:
Narrated Samura bin Jundab:
Whenever the Prophet finished the (morning) prayer, he would face us and ask, “Who amongst
you had a dream last night?” So if anyone had seen a dream he would narrate it. The Prophet would
say: “Ma sha’a-llah” (An Arabic maxim meaning literally, ‘What Allah wished,’ and it indicates a good
omen.) One day, he asked us whether anyone of us had seen a dream. We replied in the negative.
The Prophet said, “But I had seen (a dream) last night that two men came to me, caught hold of my
hands, and took me to the Sacred Land (Jerusalem). There, I saw a person sitting and another stand –
ing with an iron hook in his hand pushing it inside the mouth of the former till it reached the jaw-
bone, and then tore off one side of his cheek, and then did the same with the other side; in the mean-
time the first side of his cheek became normal again and then he repeated the same operation again.
I said, ‘What is this?’ They told me to proceed on and we went on till we came to a man Lying flat on
his back, and another man standing at his head carrying a stone or a piece of rock, and crushing the
head of the Lying man, with that stone. Whenever he struck him, the stone rolled away.
The man went to pick it up and by the time he returned to him, the crushed head had returned to
its normal state and the man came back and struck him again (and so on). I said, ‘Who is this?’ They
told me to proceed on; so we proceeded on and passed by a hole like an oven; with a narrow top and
wide bottom, and the fire was kindling underneath that hole. Whenever the fire-flame went up, the
people were lifted up to such an extent that they about to get out of it, and whenever the fire got
quieter, the people went down into it, and there were naked men and women in it. I said, ‘Who is
this?’ They told me to proceed on. So we proceeded on till we reached a river of blood and a man was
in it, and another man was standing at its bank with stones in front of him, facing the man standing
in the river. Whenever the man in the river wanted to come out, the other one threw a stone in his
mouth and caused him to retreat to his original position; and so whenever he wanted to come out
the other would throw a stone in his mouth, and he would retreat to his original position. I asked,
‘What is this?’ They told me to proceed on and we did so till we reached a well-flourished green
garden having a huge tree and near its root was sitting an old man with some children. (I saw) An –
other man near the tree with fire in front of him and he was kindling it up. Then they (i.e. my two
companions) made me climb up the tree and made me enter a house, better than which I have ever
seen. In it were some old men and young men, women and children.
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Then they took me out of this house and made me climb up the tree and made me enter another
house that was better and superior (to the first) containing old and young people. I said to them (i.e.
my two companions), ‘You have made me ramble all the night. Tell me all about that I have seen.’
They said, ‘Yes. As for the one whose cheek you saw being torn away, he was a liar and he used to tell
lies, and the people would report those lies on his authority till they spread all over the world. So, he
will be punished like that till the Day of Resurrection.
The one whose head you saw being crushed is the one whom Allah had given the knowledge of
Quran (i.e. knowing it by heart) but he used to sleep at night (i.e. he did not recite it then) and did
not use to act upon it (i.e. upon its orders etc.) by day; and so this punishment will go on till the Day
of Resurrection. And those you saw in the hole (like oven) were adulterers (those men and women
who commit illegal sexual intercourse). And those you saw in the river of blood were those dealing
in Riba (usury). And the old man who was sitting at the base of the tree was Abraham and the little
children around him were the offspring of the people. And the one who was kindling the fire was
Malik, the gate-keeper of the Hell-fire. And the first house in which you have gone was the house of
the common believers, and the second house was of the martyrs. I am Gabriel and this is Michael.
Raise your head.’ I raised my head and saw a thing like a cloud over me. They said, ‘That is your
place.’ I said, ‘Let me enter my place.’ They said, ‘You still have some life which you have not yet com –
pleted, and when you complete (that remaining portion of your life) you will then enter your place.’ “
Volume 2, Book 23, Number 415:
Narrated Samura bin Jundab:
I offered the funeral prayer behind the Prophet for a woman who had died during child-birth and
he stood up by the middle of the coffin.
Volume 2, Book 23, Number 416:
Narrated Samura bin Jundab:
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I offered the funeral prayer behind the Prophet for a woman who had died during child-birth and
he stood up by the middle of the coffin.
Volume 2, Book 21, Number 244:
Narrated Samura bin Jundab:
The Prophet said in his narration of a dream that he saw, “He whose head was being crushed with
a stone was one who learnt the Quran but never acted on it, and slept ignoring the compulsory
prayers.”
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Volume 1, Book 12, Number 806:
Narrated Samura bin Jundab:
The Prophet used to face us on completion of the prayer.
Volume 1, Book 6, Number 328:
Narrated Samura bin Jundab:
The Prophet offered the funeral prayer for the dead body of a woman who died of (during) deliv –
ery (i.e. child birth) and he stood by the middle of her body.