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

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

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

Butter is accumulated, beneficial wealth and spoils of war.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 177–180

Kinds and conditions of Butter

khabis (date-and-butter sweet)

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

As for khabis (a sweet of dates and butter) and what resembles it, it is lawful sustenance, and it may perhaps be the kissing of a woman.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 150

The dry sort of it is wealth attended with hardship, and the moist sort of it is disputed about; some have disliked it because of the yellowness in it, and it is said that it indicates illness.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 150

butterfat (ghee/clarified butter from milk)

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

It in a dream is beneficial knowledge and pure monotheism free of doubt.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 174

And butterfat may indicate the woman who inclines toward one when companionship is prolonged.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 174

clarified butter seller (samman)

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

Seeing him in a dream indicates the great scholar, one accomplished in the virtues, who shares with people both knowledge and wealth.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 161

And seeing him indicates, by a transfer of his attribute, marriage for the unmarried man to a woman of beauty.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 161

butter (churned cream)

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

In a dream it is a fetus in its mother's belly.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 142

Butter is accumulated, growing wealth, delicious and of much benefit, and provision from spoils.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 142

cloud/canopy dripping honey and butter

Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, Fath al-Bari, commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari, Book of Dream Interpretation

His statement: ("As for the canopy, it is Islam") — in the narration of Ibn Wahb, and likewise in that of Ma'mar and al-Zubaydi: "and the canopy is Islam." The narration of Sufyan is like the narration of al-Layth, and likewise that of Sulayman ibn Kathir, and it is the one whose preference appears evident.

Fath al-Bari, commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari, Book of Dream Interpretation, pp. 7421–7422

Al-Muhallab said: The rationale of Abu Bakr's interpretation is that the canopy is one of the blessings of Allah upon the people of Paradise, and likewise it was upon the Children of Israel; and so too Islam guards against harm, and by it the believer is blessed in this world and the Hereafter.

Fath al-Bari, commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari, Book of Dream Interpretation, pp. 7421–7422

'asidah (flour-and-butter porridge)

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

In a dream, in summer, it signifies worries, distresses, and beating.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 245

And 'asidah is grief coming from his workers.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 245

honey and clarified butter

Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, Fath al-Bari, commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari, Book of Dream Interpretation

His statement: "and the Quran is its sweetness dripping" — in the narration of Ibn Wahb: "its sweetness and its softness," and likewise in the narration of Sufyan and Ma'mar. Sulayman ibn Kathir made it clear in his narration, saying: "As for the honey and the clarified butter, it is the Quran, in the sweetness of honey and the softness of clarified butter."

Fath al-Bari, commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari, Book of Dream Interpretation, pp. 7421–7422

As for honey, Allah made it a healing for people, and Allah Most High said that the Quran is "and a healing for what is in the breasts," and He said that it is "a healing and a mercy for the believers." And it is sweet to the ears as honey is sweet to the taste. Likewise it has come in the hadith that in clarified butter there is healing.

Fath al-Bari, commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari, Book of Dream Interpretation, pp. 7421–7422

taking much or little of the honey and butter

Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, Fath al-Bari, commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari, Book of Dream Interpretation

His statement: "so the one taking much and the one taking little" — that is, the one who takes much and the one who takes little. In the narration of Sulayman bin Kathir it occurs without the definite article in both words. And in the narration of Sufyan bin Husayn, in Ahmad's version: "so among them are one taking much, one taking little, and one in between that."

Fath al-Bari, commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari, Book of Dream Interpretation, pp. 7421–7422

His statement: "so the one taking much of the Quran and the one taking little" — Ibn Wahb added in his narration before this: "and as for what the people catch of that in their palms," and in the narration of Sufyan: "so the one taking much of the Quran and little," and in the narration of Sulayman bin Kathir: "they are the bearers of the Quran."

Fath al-Bari, commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari, Book of Dream Interpretation, pp. 7421–7422

clarified butter (ghee)

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

And likewise clarified butter (ghee), except that in clarified butter there is strength, on account of the dominion of the fire that has touched it.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 177–180

As for clarified butter (ghee), it indicates knowledge, jurisprudence, and the Quran for the people of such things; and it indicates medicine, because of its benefit, its healing, the excellence of its extraction, and its keeping; and it indicates wealth, crops, profits, and gains for those who seek wealth; and it indicates abundance and ease of living for one who is in hardship; and it indicates health for one who is ill, if he eats it, because of what is in the report that the clarified butter of the cow is a medicine and its flesh is a disease.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 812–814

butter and honey

Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, Fath al-Bari, commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari, Book of Dream Interpretation

His statement: "dripping butter and honey" — with a nūn and a kasra on the ṭāʾ, though a ḍamma on it is also permissible; its meaning is "it drips" (tuqṭir), with a qāf and a ḍamma on the ṭāʾ, though a kasra on it is also permissible. One says naṭafa al-māʾ when the water flows.

Fath al-Bari, commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari, Book of Dream Interpretation, pp. 7420–7421

butter/ghee seller

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

The butter/ghee seller is a well-to-do man; whoever follows him lives in his shade.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 301–304

butter/honey skin

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

(The nihy) — the skin bag for butter and honey — for it is a learned, ascetic man.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 700–705

Also in the sources

butter (fresh cream butter) · Skin-bag for butter or honey (nahy)

22 more passages on this symbol are in the database and used by the interpreter.