The Night Journey and Ascension “are two incidents from the greatest incidents in the noble history of Muhammad (ﷺ)”

However, the mode of these incidents has been debated over the years: Did they occur in a dream? Was his (ﷺ) soul removed and taken to the heavens while his body remained on earth? Or did he ascend in his whole form (body and soul? Shaykh Ahmad Shakir puts this issue to rest with a thorough review and explanation of the ahadith which have been transmitted regarding Al-Isrāʾwa-al-Miʿrāj; the different transmissions and the errors in them; and a refutation of those who discount these miraculous occurrences as unscientific and therefore untrue.