THE COMB OF PARADISE The Prophet (saw) also told us that the people of Paradise will have combs of gold and silver, and that they will perfume themselves with Ud at-Teeb, even though the scent of musk will be emanating from their pure bodies. Bukhaari narrates from Abu Hurayrah that the Prophet (saw) said of those who will enter Paradise: Their vessels will be of gold and silver, their combs will be of gold and the coals of their incense-burners will be of aloe-wood [Abul-Yaman said, of Ud at-Teeb] and their sweat will be musk. [Bukhaari, Kitaab Bid al-Khalq, Baab Maa Jaaa fi Sifat al-Jannah wan-Naar, Fath al-Baari, 6/319] THE SHAHEED WILL WEAR CROWN IN PARADISE Their jewellery will include crowns. Tirmidhi and Ibn Maajah report from al-Miqdaam ibn Mad Yakrib that among the honours bestowed upon the martyr will be: ..there will be placed upon his head a crown of dignity, one ruby of which is better than this world and all that is in it. [Mishkaat al-Masaabeeh, 3/358, no. 3834, Saheeh Muslim, saheeh] THE CLOTHES OF PARADISE NEVER WEARS OUT The clothing and jewellery of the people of Paradise will never wear out or fade. Muslim reports from Abu Hurayrah (ra) that the Prophet (saw) said, Whoever enters Paradise is blessed, and will never be miserable, his clothes will never wear out and his youth will never fade away. [Saheeh Muslim, Book 40 Chapter 8 Hadith 6802] THE PEOPLE OF PARADISE DESCRIBED The people of Paradise will enter in the most perfect and beautiful form, in the image of their father, Aadam (as), for there is no human form more perfect and beautiful than that of Aadam, whom Allah (swt) created very tall. He was as tall as a great palm tree, sixty cubits tall. Muslim reports from Abu Hurayrah (ra) that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said, Allah, Subhaanahu wa taaala, created Aadam in his own image, sixty cubits tall... everyone who enters Paradise will be in the image of Aadam, sixty cubits tall. People kept getting shorter and shorter after the time of Aadam. [{Sahih Muslim: Book 40 Chapter 6 Hadith 6795}] Another aspect of their beauty is that they will have no body hair, and will look as if their eyes are anointed with kohl. Each of them will enter Paradise aged thirty-three, the age of strength, vitality and youth. Ahmad and at-Tirmidhi report from Muaadh ibn Jabal that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said, The people of Paradise will enter Paradise hairless, looking as if their eyes are ringed with kohl, aged thirty three. [Saheeh al-Jaami 6/337, no. 7928] As reported in the hadith narrated by Bukhaari and Muslim, from Abu Hurayrah (ra), the people of Paradise will not spit, blow their noses or excrete.The people of Paradise will not sleep. Jaabir ibn Abdullaah and Abdullaah ibn Abi Awfaa reported that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said, Sleep is the brother of death; the people of Paradise will not sleep [Silsilat al-Hadith as-Saheehah, 3/74, no. 1087, al-Kaamil of Ibn Adiyy, al-Hilyah of Abu Naeem, Taareekh Isbahaan, by Abul-Sheikh] A WOMAN OF JANNAH LOOKING AT THE EARTH WUD LIGHT UP THE EARTH Narrated Anas: Um (the mother of) Haritha came to Allahs Messenger (ﷺ) after Haritha had been martyred on the Day (of the battle) of Badr by an arrow thrown by an unknown person. She said, O Allahs Messenger (ﷺ)! You know the position of Haritha in my heart (i.e. how dear to me he was), so if he is in Paradise, I will not weep for him, or otherwise, you will see what I will do. The Prophet (ﷺ) said, Are you mad? Is there only one Paradise? There are many Paradises, and he is in the highest Paradise of Firdaus. The Prophet added, A forenoon journey or an after noon journey in Allahs Cause is better than the whole world and whatever is in it; and a place equal to an arrow bow of anyone of you, or a place equal to a foot in Paradise is better than the whole world and whatever is in it; and if one of the women of Paradise looked at the earth, she would fill the whole space between them (the earth and the heaven) with light, and would fill whatever is in between them, with perfume, and the veil of her face is better than the whole world and whatever is in it. {Sahih Al Bukhari Vol. 8, Book 76, Hadith 572} & {Mishkaat al-Masaabeeh, 3/85, no. 5614] THE PEOPLE WHO ENTER PARADISE WILL BE PURE IN HEART-HADITH When the people of Paradise have been saved from the Fire, they will be detained of a bridge between Paradise and Hell, where they will be purified by settling any wrongs that may be outstanding, so that they may enter Paradise, pure of heart and soul, free from any resentment, envy or other negative emotions of this world. Narrated Abu Huraira: Allahs Messenger (ﷺ) said, The first group (of people) who will enter Paradise will be (glittering) like the moon when it is full. They will not spit or blow their noses or relieve nature. Their utensils will be of gold and their combs of gold and silver; in their centers the aloe wood will be used, and their sweat will smell like musk. Everyone of them will have two wives; the marrow of the bones of the wives legs will be seen through the flesh out of excessive beauty. They ( i.e. the people of Paradise) will neither have differences nor hatred amongst themselves; their hearts will be as if one heart and they will be glorifying Allah in the morning and in the evening. {Bukhari: Vol: 4 Book 59 Chapter 8 Hadith: 3245) Vol: 4 Book 54 Hadith 468} THE PEOPLE OF JANNAH WILL DRINK FROM A SPRING THAT WILL PURIFY THEIR HEARTS. It was reported from Ibn Abbaas and Ali ibn Abi Taalib that when the people of paradise enter Paradise they will drink from one spring, and Allah (swt) will remove all sense of injury or hatred from their hearts, then they will drink from another spring, and their faces will become pure and bright [al-Qurtubee, at-Tadhkirah, p. 499]. This is probably what is meant by the aayah, And their Rabb will give them a pure drink [Al-Insan 76:21] THE 1ST FOOD FOR THE PEOPLE OF JANNAH The first food which Allah (swt) will present to the people of Paradise will be the caudate [extra] lobe of fish-liver. al-Bukhaari and Muslim report from Abu Saeed al-Khudri (ra) that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said, On the Day of Resurrection, the earth will be like one loaf of bread, which Allah will turn around in His hands, just as any of you prepares bread whilst he is travelling, to offer it as food to the people of Paradise. A Jewish man came and said, May the Most Merciful bless you, O Abul-Qaasim. Shall I not tell you what food [nuzul] will be offered to the people of Paradise on the Day of Resurrection? The Prophet (saw) said, Of course. The Jew said that the earth would be a single loaf of bread, just as the Prophet (saw) has said. The Prophet (saw) looked at us and smiled so broadly that his back teeth were visible, then he said, Shall I not tell you of their food? Balam and noon [a large fish]. They asked, What is that? He said, A bull and noon seventy thousand people will eat from the caudate [extra] lobes of their livers [Mishkaat al-Masaabeeh, 3/56] An-Nawawis comments on this hadith may be summarised as follows: Nuzul is the food prepared for a guest upon his arrival. Turning the bread around in ones hands means kneading it and tossing it from hand to hand, until it is flat and round like a disk. The meaning of the hadith is that Allah (swt) will make the earth like a huge loaf of bread to feed the people of Paradise. Noon is a whale or large fish; balam is a Hebrew word that means bull; the caudate [extra] lobe of a fish liver is the best part of it. [Sharh an-Nawawi alaa Muslim, 17/136] Narrated Anas when the news of the arrival of the prophet at Medina reach Abdullaah ibn Salaam asked the Prophet (saw) a number of questions when he first came to Madinah, one of which was, What is the first thing that the people of Paradise will eat? He said, The caudate [extra] lobe of fish liver [Ibn Katheer] { Sahih Bukhari {3938} {Bukhari Vol: 5 Book 58 Hadith 275} Reported from Abu Musaa al-Ashari that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said, The believer in paradise will have a tent made of a hollowed out pearl.. and two gardens of silver, their vessels and everything in them, and two gardens of gold, their vessels and everything in them. [Mishkaat al-Masaabeeh, 3/86] {Bukjari & Muslim} Narrates from Abu Hurayrah that the Prophet (saw) said of those who will enter Paradise: Their vessels will be of gold and silver, their combs will be of gold and the coals of their incense-burners will be of aloe-wood [Abul-Yaman said, of Ud at-Teeb] and their sweat will be musk. [Bukhaari, & Kitaab Bid al-Khalq, Baab Maa Jaaa fi Sifat al-Jannah wan-Naar, Fath al-Baari, 6/319] IBN TAYMIYYAH SAID THE YOUTHS OF JANNAH ARE NOT FROM THIS WORLD Some scholars suggested that these boys are the children of the Muslims and Mushrikeen who die in childhood, but this was refuted by Allaamah Ibn Taymiyyah (ra), who explained that these boys of eternal youth are part of the creation of Paradise: ..they are not the children of this world. When the children of this world enter Paradise, they will do so in a perfect form, like all the other people of Paradise, in the form of their father, Aadam. [Majmu al-Fatawa, 4/279, 4/311] THE MARKET IN JANNAH - HADITH The Delights of the People of Paradise: The Market of the People of Paradise Muslim reported from Anas ibn Maalik that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said; In Paradise there is a market to which the people will come every Friday, then a wind will come from the north and blow on their faces, and clothes, and they will increase in beauty. Then they will return to their wives, who will also have increased in beauty. Their wives will say to them, By Allah, you increased in beauty after you left us. And they will say, And you too, by Allah, you have increased in beauty since you left us. [Saheeh Muslim, Kitaab al-Jannah] An-Nawawi commented on this hadith, What is meant by a market is a gathering place where the people will come together, just as they gather in marketplaces in this world. Gathering together every Friday means that they will meet once a week, or what approximates to once a week; there will be no real weeks there, as there will be no sun or moon or days. The wind of Paradise was described specifically as being the north winds, because for the Arabs this is the wind that brings rain, coming from the direction of Syria, so they always hoped for a wind coming from the north. In the hadith this wind is called al-Mutheerah, i.e. something that carries things, because it will blow the sand or dust of Paradise into their faces, which is musk. [Sharh an-Nawawi ala Muslim, 17/170] THE WIVES OF THE DUNYA IN JANNAH The Wife Of The Believer In This World Will Be His Wife In The Hereafter If She Is Righteous : Gardens of Adn, which they shall enter, and [also] those who act righteously from among their fathers, and their wives and their offspring... [Ar-Rad 13:23] They and their wives will be in pleasant shade, reclining on thrones. [Yaseen 36:56] Enter Paradise, you and your wives, in happiness [Az-Zukhruf 43:70] (ii) A Woman [Who Was Married More Than Once] Will Be With The Last of Her Husbands In Taareekh ar-Raqqah, Abu Ali al-Hurani reported from Maymun ibn Mahran that Muaawiyah ibn Abi Sufyan (ra) proposed to Umm ad-Darda but she refused to marry him, saying, I heard Abud-Dardaa say that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said, A woman will be with the last of her husbands. The men in its isnaad are trustworthy apart from al-Abbaas ibn Saalih, whose biography is unknown. Abul-Shaykh reported it in at-Taareek with a saheeh isnaad only quoting the marfoo version of it. Tabaraani reported it with a daeef isnaad in al-Mujam al-Awsat but taking both isnaads into account strengthens it. The marfoo version is saheeh, and it also has two corroborating reports that are mawqoof. The first of these was reported by Ibn Asaakir from Ikrimah: Asmaa bint Abi Bakr was married to az-Zubayr ibn al-Awwaam who was harsh towards her. She came to her father and complained to him, and he said, O my daughter, have patience, for if a woman has a righteous husband, and he dies and she does not remarry after his death, they will be reunited in Paradise. [The men of its isnaad are thiqaat [trustworthy] but is it mursaal because Ikrimah never met Abu Bakr; he only heard it from Asmaa] The second report was narrated by al-Bayhaqee in as-Sunan, where he says that Hudhayfah said to his wife, If you want to be my wife in Paradise, do not remarry after I die, for the woman in Paradise will be with the last of her husbands on earth. For this reason, Allah forbade the wives of the Prophet (saw) to remarry after his death, because they will be his wives in the Hereafter.
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