Asking in a dream: meaning in Ibn Sirin, al-Nabulsi and Ibn Shahin

7 passages from 4 sources, quoted as written, every one linked to its page.

attributed to Ibn Sirin, Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam

As for asking: whoever sees that he is asking, then he will seek knowledge and be humble before Allah, and he will be raised in rank.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 750–752

Kinds and conditions of Asking

a murdered man asking for revenge

Artemidorus of Daldis, Oneirocritica (1644 English translation)

so he returned to his bed, and began to dreame againe, that he thought his companion was wounded to death by his Host, and prayed him that though he did not come to save his life, yet he would revenge his death, by all meanes: telling him that his body thus murthered by his Host, was at that instant carried right to the Gate of the Towne, covered with Dung in a Cart:

Oneirocritica (1644 English translation), The Fifth Booke of Artimedorus His Exposition of Dreames.

whereupon the poor man was so much moved with this dream, that he rose and went to the gate of the Town, and there found the Cart which he had séen in his sleep, and after he had stayed it, laid his hand upon the choller of this Inne-keeper, followed the suit, and the crime being confessed, the Inne-kéeper was executed by sentence of death.

Oneirocritica (1644 English translation), The Fifth Booke of Artimedorus His Exposition of Dreames.

asking / questioning

Ibn Shahin al-Zahiri, al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat

As for asking, it indicates humility and diligence in seeking knowledge.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 77–78

Others said: if the matter is one of the matters of religion, then it is praiseworthy; but if it is for worldly ends, then it is not praiseworthy.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 77–78

asking a question

Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam

In a dream it indicates following traces and verifying matters.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 175

(And whoever sees) as though he is asking a question, then he seeks knowledge and humbles himself before Allah the Exalted, and his rank is raised.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 175