Chapters on the description of Paradise

كتاب صفة الجنة عن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم

Chapter 27: What Has Been Related About the Description of the Rivers of Paradise

Anas bin Malik narrated that the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w) said

"Whoever asks Allah (s.w.t) Paradise three times, Paradise says: 'O Allah, admit him into Paradise', and whoever seeks refuge from the Fire three times, the Fire says: 'O Allah, save him from the Fire.'" Other chains report similar narrations.

Chapter 22: What Has Been Related About the Debate Between Paradise and the Fire

Abu Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w) said

"Paradise and the Fire debated. Paradise said: 'The weak and the poor shall enter me,' and the Fire said: 'The tyrants and the proud shall enter me.' So He said to the Fire: 'You are My Punishment, I take vengeance through you from whom I will,' and He said to Paradise: 'You are My Mercy I show mercy through you to whom I will.'"

Chapter 23: What Has Been Related About What Bounties There Are for the Lowest Inhabitants of Paradise

Abu Sa'eed Al-Khudri narrated that the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w) said

"The least of the people of Paradise in position is the one with eighty thousand servants and seventy-two wives. He shall have a tent of pearl, peridot, and corundum set up for him,(the size of which is) like that which is between Al-Jabiyyah and Sana'a."And with this chain, it is narrated from the Prophet (s.a.w) that he said: "Whoever of the people of (destined to enter) Paradise dies, young or old, they shall be brought back in Paradise thirty years old, they will not increase in that ever, and likewise the people of the Fire."And with this chain, it is narrated from the Prophet (s.a.w) that he said: "There are upon them crowns, the least of its pearls would illuminate what is between the East and the West."

Chapter 24: What Has Been Related About the Speech of Al-Hur Al-Ein

'Ali narrated that the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w) said

"Indeed in Paradise there is a gathering for Al-Hur Al-'Ein wherein they rasie their voices. The creatures have not heard the likes of them." [He said:] "They say: 'We are the eternal ones, we shall not die. We are the ones who live in joy and comfort, we have no needs. We are the pleased ones, we do not get angry. Tuba(good news) to the one who belongs to us and we to him.'" Other chains report similar narrations.

Chapter 25: What Has Been Related About the Description of the Three Whom Allah Loves

['Abdullah] Ibn 'Umar narrated that the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w) said

"Three shall be on dunes of musk" - it seems to me that he said:- "on the Day of Resurrection. The first and the last of peoples shall envy them: A man who calls to the five [prayers] every day and night; a man who leads a group of people and they are pleased with him, and a slave who fulfills the right of Allah and the right of his masters."

Chapter 26: Regarding The Hadith: "The Euphrates Shall Soon Uncover a Treasure of Gold"

Abu Hurairah narrated that the Prophet(s.a.w) said similar to it, except that he said,

"uncover a pot of gold."

Chapter 25: What Has Been Related About the Description of the Three Whom Allah Loves

Abdullah bin Mas'ud narrated a Marfu' narration

"There are three whom Allah, the Mighty and Glorious, loves: A man who stood at night reciting the Book of Allah; a man who spent in charity with his right hand, concealing it"- it seems to me he said "from his left hand"- "and a man who was in a small expedition while his companions were decimated, yet he faced enemy." Another chain reports a similar narration.

Chapter 21: What Has Been Related That "Paradise Is Surrounded with Hardships and the Fire Is Surrounded By Desires"

Abu Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w) said

"When Allah created Paradise and the Fire, He sent Jibril to Paradise , saying: 'Look at it and at what I have prepared in it for its inhabitants.'" He (s.a.w) said: "So he came to it and looked at it, and at what Allah had prepared in it. He (Jibril) said: 'Indeed, by your Might, none shall hear of it except that he shall enter it.' Then He gave the order for it to be surrounded with hardships. He said: 'Return to it and look at it, and at what I have prepared in it for its inhabitants.'" He (s.a.w) said: "So he returned to it and found it surrounded with hardships. He returned to Him and said: 'Indeed, by your Might, I fear that none shall enter it.' He (s.a.w) said: 'Go to the Fire and look at it and at what I have prepared in it for its inhabitants.' So he found it, one part of it riding the other. So he returned to Him and said: 'Indeed, by your Might, none shall hear of it and then enter it.' So He gave the order for it to be surrounded with desires, then He said: 'Return to it.,' so he (Jibril) returned to it, then he said: 'Indeed, by Your Might, I fear that none shall be saved from it except that he shall enter it.'"

Chapter 23: What Has Been Related About What Bounties There Are for the Lowest Inhabitants of Paradise

Abu Sa'eed Al-Khudri narrated that the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w) said

"The believer, when he desires a child in Paradise, he shall be carried (in pregnancy), born, and complete his aging in an hour as he desires." The people of knowledge disagreed concerning this, so some of them said that in Paradise thereis intercourse but no births. It hasbeen reported like this fromTawus, Mujahid and Ibrahim AnNakha'i. Muhammad said:"Concerning the Hadith of theProphet SAW: 'When the believerdesires a child in Paradise, it shallbe in an hour as he desires' Ishaqbin Ibrahim said: 'But he will notdesire."Muhammad said: "And it hasbeen reported from Abu Razin Al-'Uqaili from the Prophet SAW thathe said: 'Indeed the people of Paradise shall not have childrentherein."

Chapter 24: What Has Been Related About the Speech of Al-Hur Al-Ein

[ From Yahya bin Abi Kathir, concerning His (Allah's), the Mighty and Glorious, statement

"Then they shall be in gardens living luxuriously" He said: "Listening."And the meaning of listening is similar to what has been mentioned in the Hadith that Al-Hur Al-'Ein raise their voices].

Chapter 27: What Has Been Related About the Description of the Rivers of Paradise

Hakim bin Mu'awiyah narrated from his father, that the Prophet (s.a.w) said

"Indeed in Paradise there is a sea of water, and a sea of honey,and a sea of milk, and a sea of wine, then the rivers shall split off afterwards."