The first form of revelation that came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was true dreams during sleep. The account continues, "The Prophet ﷺ returned to Khadijah with his heart pounding, and she took him to Waraqah bin Nawfal, who was a man who had embraced Christianity and used to read the Gospel in Arabic."Waraqah asked, "What do you see?"The Prophet ﷺ told him what had happened.Waraqah said, "This is the same Namus that Allah sent down to Musa. If I live to see your day, I will support you with mighty support."
كان أول ما بدئ به رسول الله ﷺ من الوحي الرؤيا الصادقة في النوم وفيه: فرجع النبي ﷺ إلى خديجة يرجف فؤاده فانطلقت به إلى ورقة بن نوفل وكان رجلا تنصر يقرأ الإنجيل بالعربية فقال ورقة: ماذا ترى؟ فأخبره فقال ورقة: هذا الناموس الذي أنزل الله على موسى، وإن أدركني يومك أنصرك نصرا مؤزرا.
Bukhari narrated it in the hadiths of the Prophets (3392), and Muslim in the Book of Faith (160: 252), both of them through Zuhri, who said, Urwa bin Zubayr narrated to me, from Ayesha, and he mentioned it.