The Book of Paradise, its Description, its Bounties and its Inhabitants

كتاب الجنة وصفة نعيمها وأهلها

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said that Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, said

I have prepared for My pious servants which the eye has seen not, and the ear has heard not and no human heart has ever perceived such bounties leaving aside those about which Allah has informed you. He then recited:" No soul knows what comfort has been hidden for thein".

Chapter 1: In Paradise There Is A Tree In Whose Shade A Rider Could Travel For One Hundred Years And Still Not Cross It

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying

In Paradise, there is a tree under the shadow of which a rider can travel for a hundred years.

Sahl b. Sa'd reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying

In Paradise, there is a tree under the shadow of which a rider can travel for a hundred years without covering (the distance) completely. This hadith has also been transmitted on the authority of Abu Sa'id al-Khudri that Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) is reported to have said: In Paradise, there is a tree under the shadow of which a rider of a fine and swift-footed horse would travel for a hundred years without covering the distance completely. There would be the pleasure of Allah for the inmates of Paradise and He would never be annoyed with them.

Chapter 6: The First Group To Enter Paradise Will Look Like The Moon When It Is Full; Their Attributes And Their Spouses

Muhammad reported that some (persons) stated with a sense of pride and some discussed whether there would be more men in Paradise or more women. It was upon this that Abu Huraira reported that Abu'l Qasim (the Holy Prophet) (ﷺ) said

The (members) of the first group to get into Paradise would have their faces as bright as full moon during the night, and the next to this group would have their faces as bright as the shining stars in the sky, and every person would have two wives and the marrow of their shanks would glimmer beneath the flesh and there would be none without a wife in Paradise.

Chapter 7: The Attributes Of Paradise And Its People, And Their Glorifying Allah Every Morning And Evening

Jabir b. Abdullah reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said that the inmates of Paradise would eat therein and they would also drink, but they would neither void excrement, nor suffer catarrh, nor pass water, and their eating (would be digested) in the form of belching and their sweat would be musk aged they would glorify and praise Allah as easily ai you breathe.

This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Jabir with a slight variation of wording.

Chapter 9: The Tents Of Paradise, And The Wives That The Believers Will Have In Them

Abu Bakr b. Abdullah b. Qais reported on the authority of his father that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said that in Paradise there would be for a believer a tent of a single hollowed pearl the breadth of which would be sixty miles. It would be meant for a believer and the believers would go around it and none would be able to see the others.

Chapter 10: Rivers Of Paradise In This World

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying

Saihan, Jaihan, Euphrates and Nile are all among the rivers of Paradise.

Chapter 11: People Will Enter Paradise Whose Hearts Are Like The Hearts Of Birds

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying

There would enter Paradise people whose hearts would be like those of the hearts of birds.

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying

Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, created Adam in His image with His length of sixty cubits, and as He created him He told him to greet that group, and that was a party of angels sitting there, and listen to the response that they give him, for it would form his greeting and that of his offspring. He then went away and said: Peace be upon you! They (the angels) said: May there be peace upon you and the Mercy of Allah, and they made an addition of" Mercy of Allah". So he who would get into Paradise would get in the form of Adam, his length being sixty cubits, then the people who followed him continued to diminish in size up to this day.

Chapter 12: About Hell - May Allah Protect Us From It

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Abfi Huraira with the same chain of transmitters but with this change of wording that the Prophet (may. peace be upon him) said

It reached at its base and you heard its sound.

Samura b. Jundub reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying

There would be among them those to whom the fire will reach up to their ankels and to some of them the fire would reach their knees and to some it would reach their waists and to some it would reach up to their collar-bones.

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Sa'id with the same chain of transmitters but with a slight variation of wording.

Chapter 13: The Arrogant Will Enter The Fire, And The Humble Will Enter Paradise

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as say- ing

The Hell and the Paradise fell into dispute and the Hell said: I have been dis- tinguished by the proud and the haughty. And the Paradise said: What is the matter with me that the meek and the humble amongst people and the downtrodden and the simple enter me? Thereupon Allah said to the Paradise: You are (the means) of My Mercy whereby I show mercy to those of My servants whom 1 wish, and He said to the Hell: You are (the means) of punishment whereby 1 punish those of My servants whoml wish. Both of you will be full. The Hell will riot be filled up until Allah puts down His foot in it. The Hell would say: Enough, enough, enough, and at that time it will be filled up, all its parts integrated together.

Anas b. Malik reported that Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) said that the Hell would continue to say

Is there anything more, until Allah, the Exalted and High, would place His foot therein and that would say: Enough, enough, by Your Honour, and some parts of it would draw close to the other.

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Anas through another chain of transmitters.

Chapter 0

Anas b. Malik reported

The Paradise is surrounded by hardships and the Hell-Fire is surrounded by temptations.

Chapter 3: The Inhabitants Of Paradise Will See The People In The Highest Place In Paradise As Planets Are Seen In The Sky

Abu Sa'id al-Khudri reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying

The inmates of Paradise would see the inmates of the apartment over them just as you see the shining planets which remain in the eastern and the western horizon because of the superiority some have over others. They said: Allah's Messenger, would in these abodes of Apostles others besides them not be able to reach? He said: Yes, they will, by Him, in Whose hand is my life, those who believe in God and acknowledge the Truth, will reach them.

Chapter 5: The Market Of Paradise, And What They Will Get There Of Delight And Beauty

Anas b. Malik reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said

In Paradise there is a street to which they would come every Friday. The north wind will blow and would scatter fragrance on their faces and on their clothes and would add to their beauty and loveliness, and then they would go back to their family after having an added lustre to their beauty and loveliness, and their family would say to them: By Allah, you have been increased in beauty and loveliness after leaving us, and they would say: By Allah, you have also increased in beauty and loveliness after us.

Chapter 6: The First Group To Enter Paradise Will Look Like The Moon When It Is Full; Their Attributes And Their Spouses

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Abu Huraira through another chain of transmitters that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said

The (members of the) first group which would get into Paradise will have their faces as bright as stars in the sky. They would neither pass water, nor void excrement, nor will they suffer from catarrh, nor will they spit, and their combs would be made of gold, and their sweat will be musk, the fuel of their brazier will be aloes, and their wives will be large-eyed maidens and their form would be alike as one single person after the form of their father (Adam) sixty cubits tall.