“I saw my lord in the form of a young Beardless man with long curly hair And he was in a green garden” is this true?

Talbis Al jahmiyyah volume 7 page 294 The Prophet ﷺ Said “ I saw my lord in the form of a young Beardless man with long curly hair And he was in a green garden” is this true?

 

bn Al-Jawzi (RH) has mentioned it in his Daf’ Shubah al-Tashbih and said that this Hadith is a lie. Hafidh Al-Dhahabi (RH) also mentioned it and criticized the narrators mentioned in it.

Here’s what Ibn Al-Jawzi (RH) wrote about it:

 

 

Umm Tufayl, the wife of 'Ubayy, related that she heard the Messenger of Allahﷺ mention that, "He saw his Lord, Mighty and Majestic, in a dream in the most beautiful form as a glowing young man in green. On his feet were sandals of gold, and over his face was a blanket of gold."

 

This hadith, is related by Na'im ibn Hamad. Ibn 'Adi said, "He used to fabricate hadiths." Imam Ahmad was asked [about him], and he turned his face away from him (the asker). He said, "His hadīth is rejected and unknown."

And on the authority of Ibn ‘Abbas (RA) from the Prophetﷺ that he said, "I saw my Lord as a curly-haired beardless boy wearing a green vestment." This is related by way of Hamad ibn Salama, and Ibn Abi al-'Awjaa, the zindeeq (heretic), [who] was the stepson of Hamad. He used to interpolate these hadiths in his [stepfather's] books that have neither been confirmed nor are they good for being used to make an argument.

 

Al-Qadhi [Abu Ya'la] actually affirmed these [ascriptions of curly hair, being beardless, and having a green vestment] as attributes for God, Exalted be He. He said, "They have been established as names, but we don't comprehend their meanings." Who [on Earth] establishes [the attributes] through dreams while the transmissions of them are not soundly established? We know the meanings of the shabb (young man) and the amrad (beardless young boy), but he says, "It is not as we understand." This is like someone saying, "Fulan stood up, but he is not standing," or, "He sat down, but he isn't sitting."

 

Imam Ibn 'Aqil said, "We are certain this hadith is a lie. The reliability of the narrators does not help when the text is impossible to affirm." This is similar to the example if a group of trustworthy narrators informed us that the camel of the cloth merchant has entered the eye of the tailor's needle. The trustworthy status of the narrators has no affect while their report is actually impossible to affirm.

 

 

The hadeeth that you referred to in the question was cited by Al-Bayhaqi on the authority of Ibn ‘Abbaas, and the scholars ruled that it is an objectionable hadeeth (Munkar) and that it is not authentic.

 

Al-Albaani said in As-Silsilah Adh-Dha'eefah, “As for the Marfoo’ (directly attributed to the Prophet, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wasallam) hadeeth by Hammaad ibn Salamah, from Qataadah, from ‘Ikrimah, from Ibn ‘Abbaas, with the wording “I saw my Lord, curly-haired and beardless, wearing a green robe”; then it is an objectionable report, as stated by Ath-Thahabi in As-Siyar.”

 

Ibn Al-Jawzi said in Al-‘Ilal Al-Mutanaahiyah, “This hadeeth is not proven, and all its narrations are from Hammaad ibn Salamah. Ibn ‘Adiyy said, ‘It was said that Ibn Abu Al-Awjaa’ was the stepson of Hammaad, and he used to insert these ahaadeeth into his books.”

 

This hadeeth was also narrated by Umm At-Tufayl with the wording, “I saw my Lord in a dream in the best form; an honorable young man, His feet are in green, wearing gold shoes, lying on a gold bed (or while moths of gold are falling around him).”

 

Ash-Shawkaani said in Al-Fawaa’id Al-Majmoo‘ah fee Al-Ahaadeeth Al-Mawdhoo‘ah, “It was narrated by Al-Khateeb from Umm At-Tufayl, the wife of Abu Ka‘b, and it is a fabricated hadeeth, and its chain of narrators includes a fabricator, a liar, and an unknown reporter.”

 

Allah knows best.