At a glance
The story
It reached Malik that men of the Companions saw Laylat al-Qadr in a dream in the last ten nights, and the Messenger of God said: I see your dreams have agreed on the last third; whoever seeks it should seek it in the last third. The muhaqqiq notes Yahya transmitted it as a mursal report 1 Muwatta 895.
The meaning
In this report the dream can be collective evidence for times of worship; the Prophet's saying that the dreams agreed on the last third is a sign it is the promised night 1.
Notes
Among the texts of dreams in the Muwatta; this browser shows it in the dreams section 1.
Connections
People and things also explored
Muwatta 895· Muwatta 894· Aisha's dream: three moons fell into her chamber· The good dream: a forty-sixth part of prophethood· Ibn Umar's silk thread in the dream and the Prophet's praise· Ibn Zayd's dream and the beginning of the adhan· Khalid ibn al-Walid's frightening dream· The Prophet's vision of the Messiah and the Dajjal at the Kaaba
Sources
- Muwatta, recension of Yahya ibn Yahya al-Laythi (ed. Bashar Awwad Ma'ruf)
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islam.museum contributors. “The Companions' dream of Laylat al-Qadr in the last third”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/companions-dream-of-laylat-al-qadr/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-11.
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