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It's pretty well-acknowledged that many companions (radiallahu anhum ajmaeen) like Bilal, Uthman ibn Affan, and others saw rasulullah (salallahu alayhi wa sallam) in their dreams.

Some authors contend that seeing rasulullah in dreams is not necessarily a bishara, and mention that several of the kuffar saw rasulullah in their dreams, like Abu Jahl (rasulullah's uncle).

Are there any confirmed incidents in the sunnah that mention if any kuffar saw rasulullah in their dreams? Bearing in mind that I'm looking for hadith specifically; Shaytan commonly appears in dreams of certain demographics of Muslims as a clean shaven, green-turban-clad man claiming to be rasulullah. I'm not looking for rhetoric or incidents out of hadith.

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@Noah your comment is very naive. The reality is that Shaytan deceives people by appearing as someone who does not have rasulullah's appearance, and saying "I am rasulullah." In ignorance, they believe it really is him -- like the green turban and shaved beard. – ashes999 Dec 5 '12 at 18:41
Sorry. Hadn't heard about it. If you think the comment doesn't add any value to the question, I'd be happy to delete it. – Noah Dec 6 '12 at 4:58
@Noah that's why I explicitly called it out in my question. It's not a naive question. Feel free to delete your comment if you wish, comments are supposed to be "temporary sticky notes." – ashes999 Dec 6 '12 at 14:08

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This does not answer your question, but clears other doubt of can Satan imitate as Rasulullah ?

Sahih Bukari - Book 9- Hadith No - 122 says -

Narrated Abu Huraira:

I heard the Prophet saying, "Whoever sees me in a dream will see me in his wakefulness, and Satan cannot imitate me in shape." Abu 'Abdullah said, "Ibn Sirin said, 'Only if he sees the Prophet in his (real) shape.'"

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I already mentioned and covered this as a precondition in the last sentence of my final paragraph. – ashes999 Jan 14 at 21:41

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