Sayyidina lbn Abbas (RA), narrated Allah’s Messenger said, “Tonight my Lord, the Blessed and the Ealted, came to me (in my dream) in the best of appearance.” The narrator thought that he used the word dream too. He said, ‘O Muhammad! Do you know about what the angels nearer to Me argue?’ I said, ‘No’. He put His hand between my shoulder bleades so that I felt its coolness on my chest-or, he said throat-and I thus learnt what is between the heavens and the earth. He asked, ‘O Muhammad! Do you know about what the nearer angels argue?’ I said, ‘Yes about al-kaffarat. And, kaffarat is to stay in the mosque after salah, to walk on foot for the congreg-ation and to perform ablution well even when it is difficult. And, he who does that lives with goodness and dies with goodness, and is (purified) of sin as (he was) on the day his mother gave him birth. And He said, O Muhammad when you have prayed (salah) say:
'O Allah! I ask You for (ability to do) deeds, and giving up the disapproved, and love for the poor. And when You decide to put Your slaves to a trial, take me away to you without being tried. As for ranks they are to make salaam (the greeting) common to feed (people) food and to offer salah at night when people are asleep.'
[Ahmed 3484]