MTerryJack/prophet-dreams

Dreams of the Prophet (saas) seen by others (Arabic, multi-source)

Accounts of people seeing the Prophet (saas) in dreams, taken from classical works that are in the public domain. The texts are the original Arabic only, with no translation. Only accounts in which the Prophet himself is seen are included. Dreams of the dead, of other prophets, or of the Companions alone are excluded, and so are waking visions that the text describes as such. Each row has a per-row licence and source_url.

Sources and row counts

• al-Mara'i al-Hisan (Ibn Abi Jamrah): 49 rows. The author died in 695 or 699 AH, so the text is public domain. It is OCR from archive.org bahjat-nofous-ibn-abi-jamra, and the same rows are in MTerryJack/al-maraai-al-hisan. The OCR is poor: there are many dot errors and broken words, and some headings were lost (see covers).

• Sa'adat al-Darayn fi al-Salat 'ala Sayyid al-Kawnayn (Yusuf al-Nabhani): 84 rows. Nabhani died in 1350 AH / 1932 CE, so the text is public domain: life+70 expired in 2002, and the book was published before 1930. The source is the typed digital text from al-Maktaba al-Shamela (epub). The copyist's preface (مقدمة الناسخ) and all of his notes (تعليق ناقل الكتاب) are excluded. The rows come from Bab 4, lata'if 1-125 (46 accounts kept), Ibn Arabi's al-Mubashshirat as quoted by Nabhani (12 kept), and Nabhani's own dreams (5 kept). Bab 9 (on seeing the Prophet awake and asleep) adds 14 dream accounts; its theoretical discussion, dream-interpretation lists, and waking visions are excluded. The digression after lata'if 125 (stories quoted from Ibn al-Nu'man's Misbah al-Zalam and others) adds 7 accounts in which the Prophet is seen (ids nabhani-istitrad-NN, numbered by the story's own number); the long creed text that al-Sawi read to the Prophet in story 17 is omitted.

• al-Mustaghithin billah (Ibn Bashkuwal): 2 rows (khabar 20 and 105). Ibn Bashkuwal died in 578 AH, so the text is public domain. The text is the read.shamela.ws transcription of the Manuela Marín edition (CSIC, Madrid, 1991). Only the main text is used, and the editor's apparatus and footnotes are excluded. Of the book's 154 accounts, only these two are dreams of the Prophet.

• al-Manamat (Ibn Abi al-Dunya): 40 rows. Ibn Abi al-Dunya died in 281 AH, so the text is public domain. The text is the shamela.ws transcription (edition of 'Abd al-Qadir Ahmad 'Ata, 1993). Only the main text with its isnad is used: no editorial notes, and the print page markers are stripped. Of the book's 344 reports, only those in which the Prophet is seen in a dream are kept. ref_ar gives the book's report number and topic gives the Shamela chapter heading.

Columns

• id
• source
• book_ar
• dream_number: numbered within each source. For al-Mara'i it is the book's own numbering; for the other sources it is sequential.
• covers
• dreamer
• topic
• ref_ar: the original heading or number.
• section_ar
• page: the printed page, for Mustaghithin and al-Manamat.
• text_ar
• licence
• source_url

Used by the Stack-chan MCP bridge's prophet dreams tools.