the vision We showed you anything but a trial for the people’ [al-Isrā’ 60], he said: ‘It was a vision seen with the eyes, shown to the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, on the night he was taken to Jerusalem. The accursed tree in the Quran is the tree of Zaqqūm.’ In another narration from him: ‘It was not a dream’,” the reply is that this report does not state that he saw with his eyes anything other than what Allah showed him. The Quran explicitly states that He showed him some of His signs, as He says:

“Glory be to Him who took His servant by night from the Sacred Mosque to the Farthest Mosque, whose surroundings We have blessed, to show him some of Our signs.” [al-Isrā’ 1]

And in Sūrat al-Najm He says: “Indeed,