A man once came to see Sultan Mahmood of Ghazni. The man informed the Sultan that for a long time he wanted to see the Beloved Prophet (sallallahu alaihe wa sallam) in dream to explain his conditions.
One night, the man was blessed with the vision of the Beloved Prophet (sallallahu alaihe wa sallam) in his dream. In the dream, the man presented his conditions at the august court of the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alaihe wa sallam): “Oh Rasool Allah (sallallahu alaihe wa sallam)! I have a debt of a thousand dinars. I am afraid that I will die without paying off my debts.” The Beloved Prophet (sallallahu alaihe wa sallam) replied: “Go to Mahmood Sabuktigin and accept one thousand dinars from him.” In the dream, the man asked the Beloved Prophet (sallallahu alaihe wa sallam): “What if the Sultan does not believe my words? What if he requires proof?” The Beloved Prophet (sallallahu alaihe wa sallam) replied: “Tell Sultan Mahmood that he recites Duroods thirty thousand times before going to bed and thirty thousand times after arising from bed.”
Sultan Mahmood started to cry as soon as the man finished narrating his dream. The Sultan gave the man two thousand dinars. The Sultan’s attendants became puzzled at this and asked the Sultan why he believed the man. The attendants remarked that they stayed with the Sultan all the time and yet had never seen him recite sixty thousand Duroods in a day. Sultan Mahmood replied that he had heard from the learned Islamic scholars that whoever recites a particular Durood once will be considered to have recited ten thousand Duroods. The Sultan made a habit of reciting three particular Duroods in the morning and three in the evening with the belief that he had recited sixty thousand Duroods in a day. The Sultan explained that he cried out of joy because the Beloved Prophet (sallallahu alaihe wa sallam) confirmed the statement of the learned Islamic scholars regarding the virtue of the particular Durood.
