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Sahih al-Bukhari 3241

The characteristics of Paradise, and the fact that it has already been created

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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْوَلِيدِ حَدَّثَنَا سَلْمُ بْنُ زَرِيرٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو رَجَاءٍ عَنْ عِمْرَانَ بْنِ حُصَيْنٍ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ

اطَّلَعْتُ فِي الْجَنَّةِ فَرَأَيْتُ أَكْثَرَ أَهْلِهَا الْفُقَرَاءَ وَاطَّلَعْتُ فِي النَّارِ فَرَأَيْتُ أَكْثَرَ أَهْلِهَا النِّسَاءَ

Translation

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  1. Abū al-Walīd
  2. Salm b. Zarīr
  3. Abū Rajāʾ
  4. ʿImrān b. Ḥuṣayn
  5. al-Nabī ﷺ

The Prophet ﷺ said, "I looked at Paradise and found poor people forming the majority of its inhabitants; and I looked at Hell and saw that the majority of its inhabitants were women."

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  1. embraced Islam in the year of Khaybar, accompanied the Prophet ﷺ, and was virtuousd. 52 AH, Ibn Mandah related a view that he died in the year (53) AH
    عِمْرَان بْن حُصَيْن بْن عُبَيْد بْن خَلَف الْخُزَاعِيّأسلم عام خيبر وصحب وكان فاضلا
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  2. Mukhaḍram, trustworthy (thiqah), long-livedd. Ibn Saʿd said: died in the caliphate of ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, he said: and al-Wāqidī said: died in the year 117 AH, and it is a slip, al-Dhuhlī said: he died before al-Ḥasan, I think in 107 AH; Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr said: he died in 105 early in the caliphate of Hishām b. ʿAbd al-Malik. Also said: the year 108 AH
    أَبُو رَجَاءٍمخضرم ثقة معمر
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  3. Abū Ḥātim considered him trustworthy (thiqah), and al-Nasāʾī said: "He is not strong (laysa bi-l-qawī)."d. lived until around 160 AH
    سَلْمُ بْنُ زَرِيرٍوثقه أبو حاتم ، وقال النسائي : ليس بالقوي
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  4. trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 226 AH, or 227 AH, also said: 229 AH
    أَبُو الْوَلِيدِثقة ثبت
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  5. a mountain of memorization and the leader of the world in the comprehension of hadith (jabal al-ḥifẓ wa-imām al-dunyā fī fiqh al-ḥadīth)d. 256 AH
    الْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث

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Commentaries

Sharḥ Riyad al-Salihin (Ibn al-ʿUthaymin)
Dalīl al-Fāliḥīn (Ibn ʿAllān)
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)

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