Yahya ibn Ma‘in, who said: Yahya ibn Salih narrated to us from Sulayman ibn Bilal, from al-‘Ala’ ibn ‘Abd al-Rahman, from his father, from Abu Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said it.

I say: This is an authentic chain of transmission; all its narrators are trustworthy and are among Muslim’s narrators. Yahya ibn Salih is al-Wuhazi al-Himsi.

Note: Al-Suyuti cited it from al-Tirmidhi’s narration from Abu Hurayrah with the wording: “If one of you sees a good dream, let him interpret it and tell it; and if he sees an ugly dream, let him neither interpret it nor tell it.” It is likewise found in al-Jami‘ al-Kabir (1/56/2). Al-Manawi said in al-Fayd: “He marked it as good, following al-Tirmidhi, whereas it should have been marked authentic. The compiler’s apparent practice suggests that al-Tirmidhi alone, among the Six, narrated it from Abu Hurayrah, but this is not so: Ibn Majah also narrated it from Abu Hurayrah with the wording mentioned.”

This is what he said. Yet, despite further searching and employing every possible means, I did not find the hadith in al-Tirmidhi or Ibn Majah with the wording mentioned. His statement, “following al-Tirmidhi,” explicitly—or virtually explicitly—indicates that he found it there and that al-Tirmidhi graded it good. Perhaps it occurs in some copies of it.

1341 — “Dreams are of three kinds: glad tidings from Allah, thoughts arising from one’s own mind, and frightening from Satan. So, if one of you sees a dream that pleases him, let him recount it if he wishes; but if he sees something he dislikes, let him not recount it to anyone, and let him rise and pray.”

Ahmad (2/395) and Ibn Abi Shaybah in al-Musannaf (12/193/2)—from whom Ibn Majah narrated it (2/449)—reported: Huwadh ibn Khalifah narrated to us from ‘Awf, from Muhammad, from Abu Hurayrah, attributed to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him.

I say: This is an authentic chain of transmission. Its narrators are trustworthy and are among the narrators of the two Shaykhs, apart from Huwadh ibn Khalifah, who is truthful, as stated in al-Taqrib.