English translation
1382. It was reported from Abū Salamah bin ‘Abdur-Raḥmān, from Abū Sa‘eed Al-Khudrī, who said: “The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ used to perform I’tikāf in the middle ten nights of Ramaḍān. One year, he performed this I’tikāf, then, on the twenty-first night — which was the night he usually left the I’tikāf — he said: ‘Whoever performed I’tikāf with me, let him also perform I’tikāf of the last ten nights. And I was shown this night, but then was caused to forget it. And I saw myself in a dream, prostrating in water and mud on the morning following it. So search for it in the last ten nights, and search for it on every odd night.’ Abū Sa‘eed said: “So it rained that night, and the Masjid’s roof was covered (with date-palm leaves), and (the rain water soaked the leaves and) it dripped. And with my own eyes, I saw the Prophet ﷺ with the traces of the water and mud on his forehead and nose, and this was on the morning following the twenty-first.” (Sahih)