wives, and a pavilion of pearl, emerald, and ruby will be erected for him, its span equal to the distance between al-Jābiyah and Ṣanʿāʾ. Imām Aḥmad cited it with a continuous chain from Ḥasan, from Ibn Lahīʿah, from Darrāj; al-Tirmidhī likewise narrated it through Suwayd ibn Naṣr, from Ibn al-Mubārak, from Rushdīn, from ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith with a similar isnād (1).

Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Firyābī said: Abū Ayyūb Sulaymān ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān narrated to us; Khālid ibn Yazīd ibn Abī Mālik narrated to us, from his father, from Khālid ibn Maʿdān, from Abū Umāmah, from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, who said:

“No servant enters Paradise but that he is married to seventy-two wives: two from the ḥūr al-ʿīn and seventy from those who inherit him among the people of this world. Not one of them but possesses an enticing private part, and he will have a male organ that never loses its firmness.”

This ḥadith is extremely unusual. The well-established version, as mentioned earlier, is the opposite: two are daughters of Adam and seventy are from the ḥūr al-ʿīn. Allah knows best.

That same Khālid ibn Yazīd ibn Abī Mālik was criticized by Imām Aḥmad, Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn, and others, who declared him weak; a narrator of his standing is prone to error and lacks precision.

Ahmad, al-Tirmidhī—who graded it sound—and Ibn Mājah also transmitted, through Baḥīr ibn Saʿd, from Khālid ibn Maʿdān, from al-Miqdām ibn Maʿdīkarib, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:

“The martyr enjoys six privileges with Allah: he is forgiven at the first drop of his blood; he beholds his seat in Paradise; he is clothed in the garment of faith; he is sheltered from the punishment of the grave; he is safe from the Great Terror; a crown of dignity is placed upon his head—the ruby of which is better than this world and all it contains; he is married to seventy-two wives from the ḥūr al-ʿīn; and he may intercede for seventy of his relatives” (2).

As for the report that Muslim recorded in his Ṣaḥīḥ: ʿAmr al-Nāqid and Yaʿqūb ibn Ibrāhīm al-Dawraqī both transmitted it from Ibn ʿUlayyah—according to Yaʿqūb’s wording—who said: Ibn ʿUlayyah narrated to us; Ayyūb narrated to us, from Muḥammad, who said: “Either you boast or you are discussing: are men more numerous in Paradise or women?” Abū Hurayrah replied: “Did not Abū al-Qāsim ﷺ say, ‘The first company to enter Paradise will look like the full moon on its brightest night; those who follow them will shine like the brightest star in the sky. Each man among them will have two wives, the marrow of whose calves is visible from behind the flesh, and there is no bachelor in Paradise’?”

A similar narration is found in al-Bukhārī and Muslim through Hammām, from Abū Hurayrah (3).

Thus, what is meant here is that those two wives are daughters of Adam, while he will have in addition from the ḥūr al-ʿīn whatever Allah—exalted is He—wills, as was detailed earlier. Allah knows best.