with the vision of Rasūlullāĥ صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم. The Blessed Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم wore two white pieces of cloth and I was joining both of their edges. Suddenly, both pieces of cloth became green and began to glisten. Their sparkle and splendour was dazzling to the eyes. The Prophet of Allah صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم greeted me by saying ‘اَلـسَّلَامُ عَـلَیْـکُـم’, shook my hand and greeted me and kept his hand on my pain-filled chest, due to which the intense grief of my heart was removed.
He صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم then said, ‘O Abū Bakr رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَنْهُ I have a great desire to meet you, has the time not yet come for you to come to me?’ I wept intensely in my dream to such an extent that even my family members came to know about it and they told me about my weeping in that dream after I had woken up.’ (Shawāĥid-un-Nubūwwaĥ-li-Jāmī, p. 199)
صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الْحَبِیۡب صَلَّى الـلّٰـہُ تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد
On page 67 of ‘Ṣaḥābaĥ-e-Kirām Kā Ishq-e-Rasūl’, [the 274-page publication of Maktabaĥ-tul-Madīnaĥ, the publishing house of Dawat-e-Islami] it is stated: ‘A few hours before his passing, Sayyidunā Ṣiddīq Al-Akbar رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَنْهُ asked his beloved daughter Sayyidunā ‘Āishaĥ Ṣiddīqaĥ رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَنْهُ, ‘How many pieces of cloth were there in the shroud of the Holy Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم and what was the day of his apparent passing?’