Is the story true about the King of Iraq's dream in 1929, in which he saw the two Companions Jaber ibn Abdullah and Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman, and they asked him to move their graves, and that their bodies were found intact after the two graves were exhumed?
The news spread about the relocation of the bodies of Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman and Jabir ibn Abdullah from beside the Tigris River in Iraq due to the flooding of the river. It was said that King Ghazi saw them in a dream, asking to be relocated, and that the bodies were found intact and undecomposed. This is incorrect. Jabir ibn Abdullah died and was buried in Medina; he was the last of the Companions to die there. Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman died and was buried in al-Mada'in in Iraq. Dream visions cannot be relied upon for rulings in Islamic law, and they might even be a deception from Satan to glorify graves. The non-decomposition of the body of any Companion is a miracle from Allah if it is proven to be true.
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