Shaykh Shihaab-ud-Deen said: Striking (in a dream) indicates thatthe one who is striking is impugning the honor of the one who is struck, and the latter will be faced with distress because he kept quiet about it and did not fight back in most cases. This applies if the victim ison top (in the fight). But if the one who is hitting is on top, then in most cases he will regret hitting the other one, so he will say kind words to him or will give him something useful. Or the one who is hit may get some clothing,especially in winter, because hitting and clothing raise the temperature. He said: Hitting may also be indicative of something good reaching the one who was hit from the one who hit him, unless he hit him with a piece of wood, in which case it indicates that he will make him a promise but will not fulfill it.If he dreams that a king hit him with something other than wood, he will clothe him; if he hit him on hisback, he will pay off his debts; if he hit him on the earlobe, he will take his daughter from him.
Hitting may also be indicative of supplication;the one who hits a man (in a dream) is praying against him.In my view, hitting may indicate that the one who is hitting is striving to harm the one who is hit.
