Volume 1, Book 12, Number 777:
Narrated Abu Salama:
Once I went to Abu- Sa’id Al-Khudri and asked him, “Won’t you come with us to the date-palm
trees to have a talk?” So Abu Said went out and I asked him, “Tell me what you heard from the
Prophet about the Night of Qadr.” Abu Said replied, “Once Allah’s Apostle performed I’tikaf (seclu –
sion) on the first ten days of the month of Ramadan and we did the same with him. Gabriel came to
him and said, ‘The night you are looking for is ahead of you.’ So the Prophet performed the I’tikaf in
the middle (second) ten days of the month of Ramadan and we too performed I’tikaf with him. Gab –
riel came to him and said, ‘The night which you are looking for is ahead of you.’ In the morning of
the 20th of Ramadan the Prophet delivered a sermon saying, ‘Whoever has performed I’tikaf with me
should continue it. I have been shown the Night of “Qadr”, but have forgotten its date, but it is in the
odd nights of the last ten nights. I saw in my dream that I was prostrating in mud and water.’ In
those days the roof of the mosque was made of branches of date-palm trees. At that time the sky was
clear and no cloud was visible, but suddenly a cloud came and it rained. The Prophet led us in the
prayer and I saw the traces of mud on the forehead and on the nose of Allah’s Apostle. So it was the
confirmation of that dream.”
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