Jaws in a dream: meaning in the hadith

7 passages from 3 sources, quoted as written, every one linked to its page.

Artemidorus of Daldis, Oneirocritica (1644 English translation)

THe Jawes represent Cellars, Shops, and other things accustomed to kéepe Merchandises, or Drugges.

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

Kinds and conditions of Jaws

the liar whose jaw is torn

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

His statement: "he goes forth from his house" — that is, he departs from it early in the morning.

Fath al-Bari, commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari, Book of Dream Interpretation, pp. 7430–7432

His statement: "and he tells the lie that reaches the horizons" — in the narration of Jarir ibn Hazim: "as for the liar, he relates the lie and it is carried from him until it reaches the horizons, so it is done to him until the Day of Resurrection." And in the narration of Musa ibn Isma'il at the end of the [Book of] Funerals: "and the man whom you saw whose jaw is being torn — he is a liar."

Fath al-Bari, commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari, Book of Dream Interpretation, pp. 7430–7432

jaw torn with an iron hook

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

Ibn al-'Arabi said: The tearing of the liar's jaw is the bringing down of the punishment upon the very site of the sin, and upon this principle punishment proceeds in the Hereafter, unlike in this world.

Fath al-Bari, commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari, Book of Dream Interpretation, pp. 7428–7429

jaws of death

Freud and Jung, a separate view

and down into the monstrous jaws of death, the horror and narrowness of which at the same time signify the new day.

Carl Jung, Psychology of the Unconscious (1916) / Collected Papers (1917), Psychology of the Unconscious, ch. V Symbolism of the Mother and of Rebirth

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