that I was dragged outside until I was set down in the full glare of the sun, where I sat.
He said, “You will be compelled to disbelieve.”
Indeed, the man was taken prisoner, forced to renounce his faith, then later returned and would relate the whole affair in Madinah (1).

ʿAbd Allah ibn Jaʿfar narrated to us, from ʿUbayd Allah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Sāʾib:
A man said to Ibn al-Musayyib, “I dreamed that I was wading through fire.”
He replied, “You will not die before you cross the sea and are killed.”
The man sailed, narrowly escaped drowning, and was slain on the day of Qudayd (2).

Ṣāliḥ ibn Khawwāt related from Ibn al-Musayyib that he said:
“The furthest reach of a dream is forty years—that is, its interpretation (1).”
This passage is also transmitted by Ibn Saʿd in al-Ṭabaqāt (3) on the authority of al-Wāqidī.

Salām ibn Miskīn reported from ʿImrān ibn ʿAbd Allah:
Al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī once saw in a dream that between his eyes was written, “Say: He is Allah, One.” He and his family rejoiced at it.
When they recounted the dream to Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib, he said, “If his vision is true, only a little of his life remains.”
Al-Ḥasan died a few days later.

Among Saʿīd’s sayings:
Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah reported from ʿAlī ibn Zayd, from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib:
“Whenever Satan despairs of any approach, he comes at a person through women” (4).

Then Saʿīd said to us—he was eighty-four years old, blind in one eye and dim-sighted in the other—“Nothing fills me with greater fear than women” (5).