The Wives of Paradise – Al Hureen and of this world

The Wife Of The Believer In This World Will Be His Wife In The Hereafter If She Is Righteous "They and their wives will be in pleasant shade, reclining on thrones." [36:56] "Enter Paradise, you and your wives, in happiness" [43:70]

If a woman marries more than once which husband will she most likely be with? Most Correct opinion is the last of her husbands: In Târîkh ar-Raqqah, Abû 'Ali al- Hurani reported from Maymun ibn Mahran that Mu'âwiyah ibn Abi Sufyan (ra) proposed to Umm ad- Darda' but she refused to marry him, saying, "I heard Abud-Dardâ' say that the Messenger of Allâh (saw) said, "A woman will be with the last of her husbands.""

Also from the sunnah we have the following to support this view: Asmâ bint Abi Bakr was married to az- Zubayr ibn al-'Awwâm who was harsh towards her. She came to her father and complained to him, and he said, "O my daughter, have patience, for if a woman has a righteous husband, and he dies and she does not remarry after his death, they will be reunited in Paradise." The second report was narrated by al- Bayhaqî in as-Sunan, where he says that Hudhayfah said to his wife, "If you want to be my wife in Paradise, do not remarry after I die, for the woman in Paradise will be with the last of her husbands on earth." Also it is for this reason, Allâh forbade the wives of the Prophet (saw) to remarry after his death, because they will be his wives in the Hereafter.

In addition to their wives in this world allah will marry the men of this world to the al horeen "So [it will be] and We shall marry them to Houris with wide lovely eyes." [44:54] The Qur'ân describes al-Hûr al- 'Eyn as being firm and full- breasted: " Verily, for al-Muttaqûn, there will be a success; gardens and grapeyards and young full-breasted [mature] maidens of equal age." [78:31-33]

Al-Hûr al-'Eyn are creatures that Allâh (swt) has made especially for Paradise, and has made them virgins: "Verily, We have created [their companions] of special creation, and made them virgin-pure [and undefiled], beloved [by nature], equal in age." [56:35-37] The fact that they are virgins means that no-one has ever married them before: "...whom no man or jinn has touched before them." [55:56]

This refutes the thought of some that the wives of this world will go back to being virgins thus making the verse refer to them. The following verse refutes this notion as well "In them will be [maidens] restraining their glances, whom no man or jinn has touched before them, Then which of the favours of your Rabb will you deny? Like unto rubies and coral." [55:56-58]

The Prophet mentions the Horeen in many hadith: "...the marrow of whose leg-bones will be visible through the flesh because of their extreme beauty." - Bukhari "If one of the women of Paradise were to look at the people of this world, everything in between them would be lit up and filled with her fragrance. The veil on her head is better than this world and everything in it." -Bukhari The smallest number of wives that any one man will have in Paradise is seventy-two. It was reported that the Shahîd will have seventy two wives from amongst al-Hûr al-'Eyn -Mishkat

The Messenger (saw) told us that al-Hûr in Jannah sing with sweet, beautiful voices. In al-Mu'jam al-Awsat, at-Tabarâni reports with a sahîh isnâd from Ibn 'Umar that the Prophet (saw) said, “The wives of the people of Paradise will sing to their husband in the most beautiful voices that anyone has ever heard. What they will sing is: "We are good and beautiful, the wives of a noble people, who look at their husbands content and happy." And they will sing, "We are eternal, and will never die, we are safe and will never fear, we are remaining here and will never go away." " "al-Hûr al-'Eyn are singing in Paradise saying, "We are the beautiful houris, we are being kept for noble husbands."

The Prophet (saw) told us that al-Hûr feel protective over their husbands in this world, if the wife of one of them upsets him. Ahmad and at-Tirmidhi report with a sahîh isnâd from Mu'âdh that the Messenger of Allâh (saw) said, “No woman in this world upsets her husband but his wife from among al-Hûr al-'Eyn will say, "Do not upset him, may Allâh kill you! For he is with you only temporarily, and soon he will leave you and come to us." [Sahîh al-Jâmi']

One may ask how will a man have the strength to handle all these wives? Anas reported that the Prophet (saw) said, "The believer in Paradise will be given such and such strength." He was asked, "O Messenger of Allâh, will he really be able to do that?" He said, "He will be given the strength of one hundred men." [Tirmidhi]