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About — Editorial Method and Sources

This site is a multilingual encyclopedia of Islamic dream interpretation in the established tradition. Every interpretation we publish is drawn from one of three primary scholars: Ibn Sirin, Al-Nabulsi, and Ibn Shaheen. We do not add meanings that none of them stated.

Primary Sources

  1. Ibn Sirin — Muntakhab al-Kalām fī Tafsīr al-Aḥlām (Taʿṭīr al-Anām is also attributed to him)
  2. ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulsī — Taʿṭīr al-Anām fī Tafsīr al-Aḥlām
  3. Ibn Shāhīn al-Ẓāhirī — al-Ishārāt fī ʿIlm al-ʿIbārāt

Editorial Method

  1. Every interpretation rule on the site is bound to a scholar_id that ties it to one of the three primary sources. It is structurally impossible to add a rule with no source attribution.
  2. Translations across languages are human-reviewed before they go live on a page (each row carries a validated=1 flag in the database).
  3. Cross-references to the tafsir literature (Ibn Kathīr, al-Qurṭubī, al-Ṭabarī) are paraphrased summaries with attribution — we do not reproduce the full text from modern critical editions.
  4. Hadith citations include the full chain of transmission (isnād) where available, with the hadith number from the Ṣaḥīḥayn or Sunan.
  5. Additional scholars cited in "Scholar Opinions" sections are attributed to a named printed work, and the wording follows what is widely cited in the dream-interpretation tradition — not a fresh composition.

The No-Invention Rule

We do not add interpretations of our own personal reasoning to the site. What Ibn Sirin, Al-Nabulsi, or Ibn Shaheen did not say (or what is not attributed in a verifiable printed work to another scholar) does not enter these pages. This is an explicit editorial constraint, and it is what separates this site from arbitrary dream-interpretation aggregators.

Theological Note

Dream interpretation is a science of probability, not of certainty (ʿilm al-iḥtimāl lā qaṭʿ). No legal ruling or definitive personal decision should be built on a dream alone. The good dream is a tiding from Allah; the disliked dream is from Satan and one should seek refuge. What this site offers the serious reader is the recorded view of the scholars on the symbol seen — not a verdict on the reader's life.

Review Cycle

Every page carries the date of its last editorial review in its footer. When source works are updated, or a critical-edition error is fixed, affected pages are re-built and the date is bumped.