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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?

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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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