Imam Ahmad’s statement, “This is the view of the Jahmiyyah,” was made because the hadiths of the Ascension indicate that Allah is above, along with other matters that the Jahmiyyah deny. They counter this by claiming that the hadiths of the Ascension describe a dream. Ahmad therefore said, “The dreams of the prophets are revelation.”

This means that when any of these accounts mentions that it occurred in a dream—as in the hadith of Sharīk ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Namir from Anas—this does not warrant equating it with the dreams of anyone other than the Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace). The same would apply even if all these accounts were assumed to describe a dream. For his dreams are revelation: his eyes sleep, but his heart does not, as explicitly stated in Sharīk’s hadith. Its wording in the Sahīh, as narrated by Anas, is: “On the night when the Messenger of Allah was taken on the Night Journey