Fortress of the Muslim
Hisn al-Muslim 149
قَالَ صلى الله عليه وسلم: (إِذَا عَادَ الرَّجُلُ أَخَاهُ الْمُسْلِمَ مَشَى فِي خِرَافَةِ الْجَنَّةِ حَتَّى يَجْلِسَ، فَإِذَا جَلَسَ غَمَرَتْهُ الرَّحْمَةُ، فَإِنْ كَانَ غُدْوَةً صَلَّى عَلَيْهِ سَبْعُونَ أَلْفَ مَلَكٍ حَتَّى يُمْسِيَ، وَإِنْ كَانَ مَسَاءً صَلَّى عَلَيْهِ سَبْعُونَ أَلْفَ مَلَكٍ حَتَّى يُصْبِحَ)
He, Allah’s blessings and peace be upon him, said: “When a man visits his Muslim brother, he walks through the gardens of Paradise until he sits. When he sits, mercy envelops him. If he visits in the morning, seventy thousand angels supplicate for him until evening; and if he visits in the evening, seventy thousand angels supplicate for him until morning.”
Translation notes
مَشَى فِي خِرَافَةِ الْجَنَّةِ
The phrase khirāfat al-jannah literally evokes gathering fruit in Paradise; the witness renders it as a path of Paradise.
Should the traditional phrase be rendered as a path, a garden, or fruit-gathering in Paradise?