Gifts of Knowledge

“ʿAbduṣ-Ṣamad al-Qurashī the owner of the famous chain of Oud perfume stores had a daughter who was to get married. ʿAbduṣ-Ṣamad saw his father in a dream where he told him, ‘You will visit us after five.’

So he woke up and couldn’t tell if what he meant was five days, weeks, months or years, all the while feeling as though his time was coming to an end. So he told his family to speed up his daughter’s wedding.

Then when the Imām of his mosque was absent for one of the prayers ʿAbduṣ-Ṣamad led them instead. In the first rakʿah after Fātiḥah he read Sūrah al-Lail and cried heavily when he read the verse, ‘And their wealth will be of no benefit to them when they tumble ˹into Hell˺.’ [92:11]

Then in the second rakʿah he read Sūrah aḍ-Ḍuḥā and when he read, ‘And proclaim the blessings of your Lord,’ [93:11] he passed away [in Ṣalāh].

And that was five months after he had seen that dream.

The author was told this by ʿAbduṣ-Ṣamad al-Qurashī’s son, Anas ibn ʿAbduṣ-Ṣamad al-Qurashī.”

Multaqaṭāt al-ʿUwayyid, vol. 3, p. 184.