Promise in a dream: meaning in Ibn Sirin and al-Nabulsi

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

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

(Whoever sees) in a dream that he was given a good promise, then he will obtain good and blessing, and his life will be long.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 366

And if he sees that his enemy promised him good, he will attain evil from him or from someone else.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 366

And if he sees that he promised him evil, he will attain good from him or from someone else.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 366

And if his enemy gives him sincere advice, he is deceiving him.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 366

And the promise indicates a kindness that will reach the one who had the dream from the one who promised him.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 366

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

As for a promise: whoever sees that he was promised a good promise, then he will meet with it.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 756–759

If he sees that his enemy promised him good, some hateful thing will befall him from his enemy or from someone else.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 756–759

If he sees that his enemy promised him evil, good will reach him from his enemy or from someone else.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 756–759

The counsel of an enemy is deceit, on account of Allah's saying in the story of Adam (peace be upon him), reporting from Iblis: "Shall I direct you to the tree of eternity and a kingdom that does not decay?" And all the acts of an enemy toward his enemy: their interpretation is their opposite.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 756–759

Kinds and conditions of Promise

a promise of something

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

In a dream it is a debt owed by the one who was promised to the one who promised him.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 243

And if he fulfils what he promised in the dream, it indicates faith and goodness of certitude.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 243

hearing a voice (promise of supping in a besieged town)

Artemidorus of Daldis, Oneirocritica (1644 English translation)

AMilcar, Collonel to the Carthaginians, when he had besieged Syracu •• , • Towne of Cicile; in his dream seemed to heare a voyce▪ which sayd unto him that the next day he should sup in the same town. He joyfull of this good news, thought that God had promised him victory, put his camp in arms, and thinking to give an assault and take the town, there fell a mutiny in his Camp, between the Carthaginians and the Cicilians, so that those of the town making a suddain salley, took him prisoner, and made him perforce sup in theyr Town. So then much deceived of his ho • es which he conceived by his dream, he supped in the same Town as a Captive, not as a Captain: as he hoped, and his attempt presupposed.

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