The Palaces and Tents of Paradise🥀
Allah (ﷻ) will build good and beautiful dwellings for the people of Paradise:
“and beautiful mansions in Gardens of everlasting bliss”
[📚 Ṣurātul Taubāh:72]
In some places in the Qur’an, Allah (ﷻ) described these dwellings as ghurafaat [chambers or dwellings]:
“and they will reside in the high dwellings [Paradise] in peace and security.”
[📚 Ṣurātul Sabā:37]
The reward for the slaves of the all-Merciful will be:
“Those will be rewarded with the highest place [in Paradise] because of their patience. Therein they shall be met with greetings and the word of peace and respect”
[📚 Ṣurātul Furqān:75]
Allah (ﷻ) described these Ghurafaat:
“But for those who fear Allah and keep their duty to their Rabb [Allah], for them are built lofty rooms, one above the other, under which rivers flow. [This is] the Promise of Allah, and Allah does not fail in [His] Promise.”
[📚 Ṣurātul Zumār:20]
Ibn Katheer said: “Allah has told us about His blessed slaves who will have rooms [or dwellings] in Paradise: these will be lofty palaces, “lofty rooms, one above another – story upon story, well-constructed, strong and decorated. The Prophet (ﷺ) described these palaces to us. According to a hadith narrated by Ahmad, and Ibn Hibbaan from Abu Maalik al-Ash’ari and by at-Tirmidhi from ‘Ali (رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ) the Prophet (ﷺ) said:
“In Paradise there are dwellings whose inside can be seen from the outside, and the outside can be seen from inside. Allah [ﷻ] has prepared them for those who feed the hungry, and speak softly and gently, fast continuously and pray at night whilst the people are asleep.”
[📚Saheeh al-Jaami’ as-Sagheer, 2/220, no. 2119]
Allah (ﷻ) has told us that there are tents or pavilions in Paradise:
“Houris [beautiful, fair females] restrained in pavilions”
[📚Ṣurātul Rahmān:72]
These pavilions are wondrous tents, made of pearls, each one is made from a single, hollowed-out pearl. They are sixty miles high; according to some reports they are sixty miles wide. al-Bukhaari reports from ‘Abdullaah ibn Qays that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “The tent is a hollowed out pearl, thirty miles high; in each corner of it the believer will have a wife whom no one else can see” Abu ‘Abdus-Samad and al-Haarith reported from Abu ‘Imraan that the wording was “sixty miles high”
[📚Sahih al-Bukhaari, Kitaab Bid’ al-Khalq, Baab Sifaat al-Jannah, Fath al-Baari, 6/318]
Muslim reported from ‘Abdullaah ibn Qays that the Prophet (ﷺ) said:
“The believer in Paradise will have a tent made out of a single, hollowed-out pearl, sixty miles long, in which he will have [a number of] wives, whom he will visit in turn, none of whom will see the others”
[📚see also Muslim, Kitaab al-Jannah, Baab fi Sifaat Khiyaam al-Jannah, 4/2182, no. 2838]
The Prophet (ﷺ) told us about the characteristics of the palaces of some of his wives and companions. al-Bukhaari and Muslim report that Abu Hurayrah (رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ) said, “Jibreel came to the Prophet (ﷺ) said: "O Messenger of Allah, Khadeejah is coming, carrying a container of food. When she comes to you, convey to her greetings of peace from her Rabb and from me, and give her the glad tidings of a house in Paradise made of brocade, in which there is no noise or exhaustion.”
[📚Mishkaat al-Masaabeeh, 3/266]
Muslim, Abu Dawud, Ahmad, an-Nasaa’ee, and Ibn Maajah report from Umm Habeebah that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “Whoever prays twelve extra [supererogatory] rak’ahs every day, Allah (ﷻ) will build for him a house in Paradise.”
[📚Saheeh al-Jaami’, 5/316, no. 6234]
