I saw a vision for myself of this type, and I took it as good news from God, for it corresponds to a prophetic hadith on the authority of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, when he gave us a parable of him in the prophets, peace be upon them.

So he, may God bless him and grant him peace, said, “My example in the prophets is like a parable.” A man built a wall and completed it except for one brick, and I was that brick. There is no messenger or prophet after me.

So he likened prophecy to a wall and the prophets to bricks with which this wall was erected, and it is a very good simile, for the name of the wall here referred to is not correct for its appearance except with bricks. He, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, was the Seal of the Prophets. I was in Mecca in the year five hundred and ninety-nine, and I saw, as a sleeper sees, the Kaaba built of bricks of silver and gold, bricks of silver and bricks of gold. The building had bee