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Quail 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

Seeing it in a dream indicates benefits and provisions arising from sowing and farming.

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

And for one who seeks to hear it, it is an indication of provisions from doubtful sources, and of talk about amusement, play, and squandering.

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

And perhaps seeing the quail indicates a crime that entails imprisonment and crucifixion.

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

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

As for the quail, it is interpreted in several ways: it is said to mean wealth and blessing coming from afar.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 217–218

Ja'far al-Sadiq said: the quail is interpreted in four ways: a male child, or a servant, and lawful provision, and benefit.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 217–218

Artemidorus of Daldis, Oneirocritica (1644 English translation)

QVailes are messengers bringing ill news from sea, they crosse affinities, friendships and mariages, for they signifie noise, and seditions, and death to the sicke, if they crosse the sea.

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

They are also crosse to voyages, for they signifie ambushes, and treasons, because they are spied, when they stye, and often fall into the hands of fowlers, and hunters.

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

Kinds and conditions of Quail

quail (salwa)

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

It is in a dream a good, wholesome provision from Allah the Exalted.

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

And it is said that the quail is a two-faced man.

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

quail (as manna)

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

As for quail (al-salwa), it is interpreted as the obtaining of provision from Allah the Exalted in which no created being has any share, on account of His saying, the Exalted: "And We sent down upon you the manna and the quail."

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, pp. 217–218

quail meat

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

Quail meat and the like is interpreted as the wealth of a treacherous man.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 244

quail and shrike

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

The quail and the shrike: a two-faced man.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 392–399

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