A Woman Who Sees In Her Dream Something Like Men See
Darussalam · Volume 1
The Chapters OnDry AblutionSunan Ibn Majah Darussalam English translation
الحديث: 600 ¦ الجزء: 1 ¦ الصفحة: 197
Source no. 600 · Volume 2 · Page 172
Sahih
صحيح، صحيح أبي داود (٢٣٦) ، الروض النضير (١٢٠١)
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600. It was narrated from Zainab, the daughter of Umm Salamah, that her mother Umm Salamah said: "Umm Sulaim came to the Prophet ﷺ and asked him about a woman who sees in her dream something like a man sees. He said: 'Yes, if she sees water (discharge), let her take a bath.' I said: 'You have embarrassed the women. Do women experience wet dreams?' The Prophet ﷺ said: 'May your hands be rubbed with dust, how else does her child resemble her?'" (Sahih)
600 - حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ، وَعَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ، قَالَا: حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ، عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ زَيْنَبَ بِنْتِ أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ أُمِّهَا أَمِّ سَلَمَةَ قَالَتْ: جَاءَتْ أُمُّ سُلَيْمٍ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، فَسَأَلَتْهُ عَنِ الْمَرْأَةِ تَرَى فِي مَنَامِهَا مَا يَرَى الرَّجُلُ؟ قَالَ: «نَعَمْ، إِذَا رَأَتِ الْمَاءَ فَلْتَغْتَسِلْ» ، فَقُلْتُ: فَضَحْتِ النِّسَاءَ، وَهَلْ تَحْتَلِمُ الْمَرْأَةُ؟، قَالَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «تَرِبَتْ يَمِينُكِ، فَبِمَ يُشْبِهُهَا وَلَدُهَا إِذًا»
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The Mother of the Believers expressed her surprise because she had never experienced anything like it. The reason being that an occurrence like this is a rarity among women, while it is a normal occurrence among men. Merely having a vision of something like intercourse in dreams, does not necessitate a bath; only a wet dream, i.e., the discharge of the male or female water makes it compulsory. Therefore, if traces of semen become visible on the body or clothes, a bath becomes mandatory regardless of whether, on awakening, the person concerned remembers or does not remember the dream experienced by him. The Prophet ﷺ means to say that since the woman has the fluid inside her that procreates the child, it could as well be emitted in her dream, and there is no reason to feel surprised about it.