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

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

In a dream, seeing them indicates men and women, and the small ones among people, and counted dirhams, since they come from the earth; and memorization and reckoning of whatever knowledge or poetry a seeker has grasped; and the Hajj and the throwing of the pebbles at the Jamarat; and hardness and severity; and reviling and slander.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, pp. 77–78

Whoever sees a bird descend from the sky, pick up a pebble and fly away with it: if that was in a mosque, a righteous man, or one of the righteous among the people, dies there.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, pp. 77–78

And if the dreamer was ill and was among the people of good, or among those who pray therein, and no one else who prays therein shared with him in the illness, then the dreamer is the one who dies.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, pp. 77–78

And if its picking up of the pebble was from a church, the reckoning regarding the deterioration of the sick person is like what we have set forth before.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, pp. 77–78

And if it picked it up from his house, or from an unknown place, then a child of the dreamer, or someone else, will perish.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, pp. 77–78

As for one who picks up a number of pebbles and ties them up in his garment or swallows them into his belly: if his picking them up was from a mosque, or the house of a scholar, or a circle of dhikr, he will master a portion of knowledge and of the Quran, and will benefit from remembrance and eloquence in proportion to the pebbles he picked up.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, pp. 77–78

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

their scholars. And it is said that pebbles are interpreted as reckoning/counting.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 119

Khalid al-Isfahani said: Whoever sees that a bird descended from the sky and picked up pebbles and he wrapped them in his garment or swallowed them, then he will amass knowledge, and perhaps it means the obtaining of a benefit.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 119

And whoever sees that he threw a pebble into the sea, his wealth will be lost in it.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 119

And whoever sees that he threw a pebble into a well, then he will spend money on a marriage or the purchase of a servant.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 119

And whoever sees that he is throwing a pebble at something: if that thing has an interpretation, then he will purchase that which it is interpreted as; and if it has no interpretation, then it is that very thing itself.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 119

And whoever sees that he is throwing a pebble at a person, then he will pelt him with words, and their extent will be in proportion to the strike.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 119

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

(Pebbles) indicate men and women, and white dirhams, because they are from the earth; and memorising and enumerating, on account of what someone seeking knowledge or poetry has committed to memory; and Hajj and the casting of the pebbles at the pillars; or hardness and severity; and reviling and slander.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 491–494

So whoever sees a bird descend from the sky to the earth, pick up a pebble, and fly off with it: if that was in a mosque, a righteous man, or one of the righteous among the people, will perish from there.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 491–494

And if the one who had the dream is ill and is one of the people of goodness, or of those who also pray there, and no one else who also prays there shares in the illness with him, then the one who had the dream is a dead man.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 491–494

And if the picking up of the pebble was from a church, the consideration regarding the ruin of the sick person is like what we set forth before.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 491–494

And if it picked it up from a house or from an unknown place, then the sick person belonging to the one who had the dream — a child or someone else — will perish.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 491–494

As for whoever picks up a number of pebbles and puts them in his garments or swallows them into his belly: if his picking them up was from a mosque, or the house of a scholar, or a circle of remembrance, he will commit to memory a portion of knowledge and the Quran, and will benefit from remembrance and eloquent expression in proportion to what he picked up of the pebbles.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 491–494

Kinds and conditions of Pebbles

pebbles of the Jamarat

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

In a dream, if he throws them, that indicates the repayment of a debt amounting to seven dirhams, or seven dinars, or seven hundred, and victory over an enemy, and the performance of a righteous deed.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 77

And whoever eats a jamrah of the pebbles has consumed wealth.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 77

pebble in the ear

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

A rare case: A man came to Ibn Sirin and said, "I saw a pebble fall into my ear, so I shook it out in alarm and it came out." He said: "You are a man who sits with the people of innovation, so you hear an obscene word, but you repent."

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 263–264

pebbles/gravel of water

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

In a dream it signifies an occupation he did not foresee, and misery.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 135

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