Abū Dāwūd said: “Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ narrated to us; Ibn Wahb narrated to us; ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith informed me, from Saʿīd ibn Abī Hilāl, from ʿIyāḍ ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Saʿd ibn Abī Sarḥ, from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was reciting Sād while standing on the pulpit. When he reached the verse of prostration he came down and prostrated, and the people prostrated with him. On another occasion he recited it again; when he reached the verse of prostration the people hastened to prostrate. He said, ‘It is only the repentance of a prophet, yet I noticed your eagerness,’ then he descended and prostrated.”
Abū Dāwūd alone transmitted this report, and its chain meets the criteria of soundness.

Imām Aḥmad said: “ʿAffān narrated to us; Yazīd ibn Zurayʿ narrated to us; Ḥumayd narrated to us; Bakr—meaning Ibn ʿUmar—and Abū al-Ṣiddīq al-Nāji related to me that Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī saw in a dream that he was writing Sād. When he reached the verse at which one prostrates, he saw the inkwell, the pen, and everything around him fall down in prostration. He told the Prophet ﷺ of what he had seen, and thereafter the Prophet never ceased to prostrate at that verse.”
Aḥmad transmitted this report alone.

Al-Tirmidhī and Ibn Mājah also narrated—through the ḥadīth of Muḥammad ibn Yazīd ibn Khunays, from al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Abī Yazīd—who said: Ibn Jurayj told me, “My grandfather ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Abī Yazīd narrated to me from Ibn ʿAbbās that a man came to the Prophet ﷺ and said, ‘Messenger of Allah, in a dream I saw myself praying behind a tree. I recited a verse of prostration and prostrated, and the tree prostrated with me. I heard it say while prostrating:
O Allah, record for me a reward with You for this, store it up for me as a treasure with You, remove from me by means of it a burden, and accept it from me as You accepted it from Your servant David.’
Ibn ʿAbbās continued: ‘I then saw the Prophet ﷺ stand, recite the verse of prostration, and prostrate; I heard him saying while prostrating exactly what the man had reported of the tree’s words.’”
Al-Tirmidhī commented, “It is gharib; we know it only through this chain.”

Some exegetes have stated that he—peace be upon him—remained in prostration for forty days, a view reported from Mujāhid, al-Ḥasan, and others. A marfūʿ report to that effect exists, but it comes through Yazīd al-Raqāshī, who is weak and whose narrations are discarded.
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