#727 Yahya related to me from Malik from Yazid ibn Abdullah ibn al-
Hadi from Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Harith at-Taymi from Abu Salama ibn
Abd ar-Rahman that Abu Said al-Khudri said, "The Messenger of Allah,
may Allah bless him and grant him peace, used to do itikaf in the
middle ten days of Ramadan. One year he was doing itikaf and then,
when it came to the night of the twenty-first, which was the night
before the morning when he would normally have finished his itikaf, he
said, 'Whoever has done i'tikaf with me should continue doing itikaf
for the last ten days. I saw a certain night and then I was made to
forget it. I saw myself prostrating the following morning in water and
clay. Look for it in the last ten days, and look for it on the odd
days.' "


Abu Said continued, "The sky poured with rain that
night and the mosque had a roof (made of palm fronds) and the mosque
was soaked. With my own eyes I saw the Messenger of Allah, may Allah
bless him and grant him peace, leave with traces of water and clay on
his forehead and nose, in the morning after the night of the twenty-
first."