Gardens of the Righteous — Page 260
260. GARDENS OF THE RIGHTEOUS 1547. . This hadith is the same as No. 54. 1548. 1549. . This hadith is the same as No. 693. . Ibn Abbas relates that the Holy Prophet said: He who relates as a dream that which he has not seen will be called upon to tie a knot between two grains of barley, and he who eavesdrops upon a people will have molten lead poured into his ears on the Day of Judgment, and he who paints the portrait of a person will be tormented and will be called upon to breathe into it a soul which he will not be capable of doing (Bokhari and Muslim). 1550. Ibn Umar relates that the Holy Prophet said: The greatest imposture is that a person should purport to show his eyes that which they have not seen (Bokhari). He adds: The meaning is that a person should relate something as having been seen by him in his dream which he did not in fact see. 1551. Samurah ibn Jundub relates: The Holy Prophet would often inquire from his companions: Has any of you seen a dream? Then whoever was able would relate his dream to him. One morning he related to us: Last night two persons came to me in my dream and said: Come with us. I accompanied them and we came upon a man who was lying on his back and another one standing near his head struck him on the head with a stone. . When the stone hit the head of the person struck it rolled away from him. The striker went after the stone and caught it up and returned with it. In the meantime the head of the person who was hit recovered from its injury and the striker hit him again. I said to my two companions, Holy is Allah, what is this?. They said: Proceed, proceed; and we proceeded and came to a man lying on his back and another one standing near him with a hooked bar of iron in his hand and approaching him from one side ripped open his mouth till his neck and ripped open his nostril till his neck and tore open his eye till his neck and then he turned to his other side and did the same on that side. By that time the first side of the man's face recovered from its injuries and the tormentor returned to the first side and repeated what he had done to it the first time. I said to my companions: Holy is Allah, what are these two at? They said to me:. Proceed, proceed; and we proceeded and arrived near a pit which was like an oven out of which we could hear cries. We glanced into it and saw men and women naked who cried out when the flames reached them from below. I asked my companions, who are these? They said: Proceed, proceed; and we proceeded till we arrived at a stream the water of which was red like blood and a man was swimming in it. On the bank of the stream was another who had collected many pieces of rock. When the swimmer approached him, he would strike him with a piece of rock which would smash his face and he would start swimming again and as he approached the bank once more the man on the bank would strike him with a piece of rock which smashed his face. I inquired from my companions; who are these two? And they said: Proceed, proceed; and we proceeded till we came to a frightfully ugly person near a blazing fire which he started and round which he kept running. I asked my two companions: What is this? And they said: Proceed, proceed; and we