Will two women of the world be given to every man in Paradise?

- Can you mention the hadiths regarding the issue?
- In addition, the wives of the people of Hell who deserve Paradise will be inherited by the believing men of Paradise. As it is stated in various hadiths, believing men will marry such women in addition to their own wives. (Ibn Majah, Zuhd: 39)
- How sound are those hadiths and how many hadiths are there regarding the issue?
- What will happen to the second wife of a man if her husband in Hell comes to Paradise again?
- Will you mention the hadiths about the two wives of the world rather than the hadiths about the houris?

Dear Brother / Sister,

A narration regarding the issue is as follows:

“There is no one whom Allah will admit to Paradise but Allah will marry him to seventy-two wives, two from houris and seventy from his inheritance from the people of Hell.” (Ibn Majah, Zuhd 39)

Hisham bin Khalid, a hadith scholar, states the following while explaining the hadith: “Some men will remain in Hell forever. The men of Paradise will marry the wives of those who enter Hell. For example, Pharaoh’s wife.” (Ibn Majah, ibid)

- Since there are weak narrators in the chain of narrators of this narration, the hadith is regarded as weak. (see Suyuti, Sharhu Sunani Ibn Majah, 1/323; al-Albani, Daiful-Jami’, h. no: 5143).

- We could not find any information about every man being given two wives from the women of the world in Paradise. If the spouses enter Paradise together, their marriage will continue there too. The women of the world will be more beautiful than houris. (Majmauz-Zawaid, h. no: 11396)

- After the women of the world enter Paradise, they will be purified from evil deeds, jealousy and similar ugly habits, and the inside of their bodies will be as clear and clean as the outside of their bodies. They will surpass houris in beauty.

As a matter of fact, once, Umm Salama asked the Prophet (pbuh) “O Messenger of Allah! Are the women of the world or houris in Paradise superior?” The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said, “The superiority of women of the world is like the superiority of the right side of the fabric over the lining.” Umm Salama asked, “Why?” He answered as follows: “Because the women in the world pray, fast and perform many deeds of worship.” (Tabarani, al-Mujamul-Kabir, 23/367-h. no.870)

The Prophet describes the women of Paradise as follows:

“The marrow of the bone in each of their calves is visible through their flesh due to the beauty and elegance of their bodies. There will be no conflict, enmity or jealousy among them. They will glorify Allah in the morning and evening.” (Bukhari, Bad’ul-Khalq, 59; Muslim, Jannah, 14-17)

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