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

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

As for Satan, he is an enemy in religion and in worldly matters, cunning, deceitful, caring for nothing; his interpretation may be the ruler, and it may be one's family.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 127–129

And Satan is a deceitful enemy in matters of religion.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 759–762

Whoever sees as though a visitation from Satan touched him while he was occupied with the remembrance of Allah the Exalted, his dream indicates that he has many enemies who wish to destroy him but will not attain their aim against him, because of the saying of Allah the Exalted: "Indeed, those who fear Allah, when a visitation from Satan touches them, they remember," the verse.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 127–129

If he sees as though a piercing meteor is pursuing a satan, his dream indicates the soundness of his religion.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 127–129

Whoever sees as though Satan frightened him, his dream indicates his sincerity in his religion and safety from a fear he is in, on the evidence of the saying of Allah the Exalted: "So do not fear them, but fear Me, if you are believers."

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 127–129

Whoever sees Satan joyful and delighted will become occupied with lusts.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 127–129

Freud and Jung, a separate view

for Satan often disguises himself as an angel of light.

Carl Jung, Psychology of the Unconscious (1916) / Collected Papers (1917), Psychology of the Unconscious, ch. IV The Song of the Moth

Kinds and conditions of Satan

Iblis (Satan)

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

In a dream he indicates heedlessness. A man said to al-Hasan: "O Abu Sa'id, does Iblis sleep?" He said: so he smiled and said: "Had he slept, we would have found rest."

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 16

And seeing him in a dream indicates the innovating scholar.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 16

Satan / devil

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

He is in a dream an enemy in religion and in worldly affairs, a schemer, a deceiver, greedy, arrogantly stubborn, who neither cares nor concerns himself; and perhaps he is a governor, or a vizier, or a judge, or a policeman, or a jurist, or a preacher, or an unbeliever, or a hypocrite, or an envier; and perhaps he is one's family and dependents. And seeing Satan is joy, excess, and lust — just as lust is excess and a satan.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 197

(And whoever sees) that Satan is knocking him about, then he consumes usury.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 197

Satan appearing in the form of the Ka'ba

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

There occurs in al-Tabarani's al-Mu'jam al-Awsat, from the hadith of Abu Sa'id, the like of the first hadith in the chapter, in its very wording, except that he added therein: "nor in the form of the Ka'ba."

Fath al-Bari, commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari, Book of Dream Interpretation, pp. 7375–7376

Satan toying with one in a dream

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

A bedouin came and said: "O Messenger of Allah, I saw in a dream as though my head had been cut off and I was following after it" — and in another wording: "it had gone off, so I ran hard after it." So he said: "Do not inform anyone of Satan's toying with you in your sleep." And in another narration of his: "When Satan toys with one of you in his sleep, let him not inform people of it."

Fath al-Bari, commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari, Book of Dream Interpretation, pp. 7394–7395

Satan appearing in a dream

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

And Satan may take on any form in a dream except that of Allah the Exalted, His angels, His books, and His messengers.

al-Isharat fi Ilm al-Ibarat, p. 3

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