Shahih Muslim - 1994

Dan telah menceritakan kepadaku [Muhammad bin Abdul A'la] telah menceritakan kepada kami [Al Mu'tamir] telah menceritakan kepada kami [Umarah bin Ghaziyyah Al Anshari] ia berkata, saya mendengar [Muhammad bin Ibrahim] menceritakan dari [Abu Salamah] dari [Abu Sa'id Al Khudri] radliallahu 'anhu, ia berkata; Rasulullah shallallahu 'alaihi wasallam melakukan I'tikaf pada sepuluh awal bulan Ramadlan, kemudian dilanjutkannya pada sepuluh pertengahan, dalam sebuah kubah kecil yang terbuat dari permadani dan pintunya ditutup dengan tikar. Lalu beliau ambil tikar itu, dan diletakkannya di sudut kubah. Kemudian diulurkannya kepalanya seraya berujar memanggil orang banyak. Maka mendekatlah mereka pada beliau, beliau bersabda: "Aku telah I'tikaf sejak sepuluh awal bulan untuk mendapatkan Lailatul Qadr, kemudian sepuluh yang pertengahan. Kemudian dikatakan kepadaku bahwa Lailatul Qadr itu terdapat pada sepuluh akhir Ramadlan. Karena itu, siapa yang suka I'tikaf, maka silahkan." Maka para sahabat pun ikut I'tikaf bersama-sama dengan beliau. Dan beliau juga bersabda: "Aku bermimpi melihat Lailatul Qadr di malam ganjil, yang pada pagi harinya aku sujud di tanah yang basah." Memang, pagi-pagi malam kedua puluh satu beliau shalat Shubuh sedangkan hari hujan sehingga masjid tergenang air. Aku melihat tanah dan air. Setelah selesai shalat Shubuh, Nabi shallallahu 'alaihi wasallam keluar, sedangkan di kening dan hidungnya ada tanah basah. Malam itu adalah malam ke dua puluh satu dari sepuluh yang akhir bulan Ramadlan. (HR. Muslim: 1994)

Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) observed i'tikaf (confined himself for devotion and prayer) in the first ten (days) of Ramadan; he then observed i'tikaf in the middle ten (days) in a Turkish tent with a mat hanging at its door. He (the Holy Prophet) took hold of that mat and placed it in the nook of the tent. He then put his head out and talked with people and they came near him, and he (the Holy Prophet) said: I observed i'tikaf in the first ten (nights and days) in order to seek that night (Lailat-ul-Qadr). I then observed i'tikaf in the middle ten days. Then (an angel) was sent to me and I was told that this (night) is among the last ten (nights). He who among you likes to observe i'tikaf should do so; and the people observed it along with him, and he (the Holy Prophet) said: That (Lailat-ul-Qadr) was shown to me on an odd (night) and I (saw in the dream) that I was prostrating in the morning in clay and water. So in the morning of the twenty-first night when he (the Holy Prophet) got up for dawn (prayer). there was a rainfall and the mosque dripped, and I saw clay and water. When he came out after completing the morning prayer (I saw) that his forehead and the tip of his nose had (traces) of clay and water, and that was the twenty-first night among the last ten (nights). (Muslim: 1994)