In a dream, seeing them signifies men and women, small people, and counted dirhams because they are of the earth; memorizing and counting [ihsa', from the same root as hasa = pebbles] what a seeker has acquired of knowledge or poetry; the pilgrimage and the stoning of the pillars; hardness and severity; and insults and slander.
Whoever sees a bird descend from the sky, pick up a pebble and fly away with it: if that was in a mosque, a righteous man connected with it, or one of the righteous people, will perish. If the dreamer is sick and is one of the good people, or one who also prays in it, and none of those who pray in it shares his sickness, then the dreamer will die. If it picked up the pebble from a church, the consideration of the sick person's ruin is as we described. If it picked it up from his house or from an unknown place, a child or someone else of the dreamer's will perish. As for one who picks up a number of pebbles and ties them in his garment or swallows them into his belly: if he picked them up from a mosque, a scholar's house or a circle of remembrance, he will learn knowledge and Quran and benefit from remembrance and eloquence in proportion to the pebbles he picked up. If he picked them up from markets, from plowed fields or from the roots of trees, they are worldly benefits and dirhams that come together for him through fruits, stones, or begging and charity, each person according to his ambition and his custom in waking life. If it was behind trees, they are gifts from the ruler if he serves him, or gains from the sea if he trades on it, or knowledge he acquires from a scholar if he is a student, or a gift or present from a rich wife if he has a child; if he has no child, he will be granted a child by a wife. As for one who throws them into a sea, his wealth will be lost in it. If he throws them into a well, he will spend money on marriage or on buying a servant. If he throws them into a grain-pit, a food container or a storehouse by the sea, he will buy, with what he has or in proportion to what he threw, merchandise indicated by the place in which he threw what he had. If he throws them at an animal such as a lion, a leopard, a monkey, locusts, a crow and the like: if that is during the days of the pilgrimage, he will stone the pillars in the future, because the origin of the pillars is that Gabriel, peace be upon him, commanded Adam, peace be upon him, to pelt Satan with them when he confronted him, and it became a Sunna. If it is not during the days of the pilgrimage, the pebble is his supplication against an enemy or a depraved person, or an insult, or testimony he gives against him. If he throws them at other than these kinds, such as pigeons and Muslim people, the man is a reviler and backbiter who speaks against righteous people and chaste women. Pebbles are the scholars among people. It is said [they signify] repentance for sinners and guidance for the unbeliever. Pebbles may signify martyrdom [or testimony], because they glorified God in the palm of the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace. Pebbles may be taken to mean an illness of them, like [bladder] gravel. They signify the roads [paved] with them, and walking on them signifies evil and dispute. They may signify death, because they are carried onto graves. For people of livelihood, they may signify what they weigh or measure with, or what is made from them, such as thornwood and the like. Pebbles are speech with harshness in it, and many of them are a preoccupying business.
Whoever sees that there is a pebble in his ears that his ear spat out and cast away will hear a harsh word that his ear will spit out.