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The blog Life in Saudi Arabia has a page on an event that supposedly happened in the year 1164 AD, summarized briefly as follows:

Nur ad-Din had the same dream three times where he saw Muhammad, who showed him "faces". Taking these dreams as being prophetic, the Sultan went to Medina and gave alms to the people. He asked if there are other people that don't receive alms. There were two who didn't, and the Sultan located them and found out they were Christians who were digging a tunnel to try to steal Muhammad's body. The Sultan then had them killed.

Google shows many slight variations on this story, so it is a notable claim.

Are there any records that this really happened?

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    Is that blog notable? – Ben Barden Mar 29 '18 at 18:12
  • Miracle or fairy tale? – Phil N DeBlanc Mar 29 '18 at 18:16
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    It'll be pretty difficult to prove or disprove whether [the guy a thousand years ago](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nur_ad-Din_(died_1174)) actually had this dream. A quick search of some of the things mentioned in the article(like the chamber being surround with 'melt lead') came up with nothing. – Giter Mar 29 '18 at 18:23
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    At best we could say that the sultan *said* that he had a dream prior to catching people trying to steal the body. – Brythan Mar 29 '18 at 18:31
  • I have heard this story a few times I believe that it is NOTABLE. It's like Jesus' miracle. – user4234 Mar 29 '18 at 18:53
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    If you're using the miracles of Jesus as your notability comparable, I think this might start running afoul of the "matters of faith" issue. – Ben Barden Mar 29 '18 at 19:02
  • Are there any records that this is really happening? Is this a propaganda? Also the muslims don't believe in miracles. Nor do they think there is any supra natural revelation after Muhammad. I don't think this is faith. – user4234 Mar 29 '18 at 19:11
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    Nobody can know for sure if he had dreams, prophetic or not. That's a matter of faith. Whether or not Nur ad-Din stopped two guys from stealing Mohammad's body is something concrete, so refocusing the question on that will make it on topic. I made some really major edits that I think will vastly improve this question and prevent it from being closed. Hopefully it still looks OK to you @SharenEayrs. – Laurel Mar 30 '18 at 04:05
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    So basic stuff from that story, the Kingdom of Iberia was a kingdom located in the Caucasus mountains that ceased existing almost 1000 years before the story took place, there was no "Kingdom of Iberia" in terms of a Christian King of the Iberian peninsula or an actual title that ever existed. https://www.quora.com/What-happened-to-the-prophet-Mohammads-body from quora, the top answer by a "Student of Islam" says there is no authentic proof. – DenisS Mar 30 '18 at 15:14
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    [This source](http://www.radioislam.org.za/a/index.php/library/151-muhammad-sallallahu-alayhi-wa-sallam/10147-attempts-to-steal-the-body-of-the-prophet-sallallahu-alayhi-wa-sallam-and-his-companions.html) says [Samhoudi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_ibn_Ahmad_al-Samhudi) wrote about this story. Maybe someone can use this to find the origin of the story. – Laurel Mar 30 '18 at 16:33
  • I think the part of the dream one is beyond sceptic. But if someone says I have a dream, and latter see some guy in his dream and that some guy has a tunnel to some relic, now that's something very interseting – user4234 Apr 03 '18 at 14:42

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