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1053. It was narrated that Ibn 'Abbās said: "I was with the Prophet ﷺ, and a man came to him and said: 'Last night while I was sleeping, I saw that I was praying towards the base of a tree. I recited (an Āyah of) prostration and prostrated, and
the tree prostrated when I did, and I heard it saying: Allāhummah-tut anni biha wizran, waktub li bihā ajran, waj'al-hā li 'indaka dhukhran (O Allāh, reduce my burden of sin thereby, reward me for it and store it for me with You).’ Ibn ‘Abbās said: “I saw the Prophet ﷺ recite (an Āyah of) prostration and then prostrate, and I heard him saying in his prostration something like that which the man had told him the tree said.” (Hasan)
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[1] An Ayah indicating prostration.
Commentary
The Companion referred to in the Hadith was Abu Sa'eed Al-Khudri ﷺ as mentioned in another Hadith (See Tuhfatul-Ahrawdhi 160/3, H. 579).
It is Sunnah to recite the abovementioned invocation in prostrations for reciting the Qur'an.
Matters in the Islamic Shari'ah are not proved from dreams. The invocation is a part of Sunnah not because one of the Companions saw it in a dream, but because it is proved from the practice of the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ.
