Muslim likewise narrated:
Abū ʿUthmān Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Baṣrī told us; Ḥammād ibn Salamah told us, from Thābit, from Anas ibn Mālik, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:
“Indeed, in Paradise there is a marketplace which they will visit every Friday. A north-wind will then blow over them, flinging musk into their faces and upon their garments, so their beauty and elegance increase. They return to their families having grown still more handsome and more splendid.
Their families will say, ‘By Allah, you have become even more beautiful and radiant since you left us.’
They will reply, ‘And by Allah, you too have become even more beautiful and radiant since we left you.’”
Aḥmad likewise transmitted it from ʿAffān, from Ḥammād, and in his wording: “In Paradise there is indeed a marketplace containing dunes of musk; when they go out to it the wind blows …” and he narrated it to the end. ⦗1⦘
Abū Bakr ibn Abī Sabrah ⦗2⦘ also narrated, from ʿUmar ibn ʿAṭāʾ ibn Warāz ⦗3⦘, from Sālim Abū al-Ghayth, from Abū Hurayrah, from the Prophet ﷺ, who said:
“The soil of Paradise is white; its open plain is slabs of camphor, surrounded on all sides by musk like sand-dunes. Flowing rivers run through it. The people of Paradise will gather there and come to know one another. Allah, Blessed and Exalted, will then send a breeze of mercy that stirs for them the scent of musk, and a man will return to his wife having increased in beauty and fragrance. She will say, ‘You left me while I was already captivated by you, and now I am even more taken with you.’” ⦗4⦘
As for the ḥadīth recorded by the ḥāfiẓ Abū ʿĪsā al-Tirmidhī, who said: “Aḥmad ibn Manīʿ and Hannād ⦗5⦘ related to us; both said: Abū Muʿāwiyah related to us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Isḥāq narrated to us, from al-Nuʿmān ibn Saʿd, from ʿAlī, who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: ‘In Paradise there is indeed a marketplace in which there is no buying or selling except for likenesses of men and women; when a man desires a likeness he enters into it,’” — this is a gharīb ḥadīth, as al-Tirmidhī himself observed. ⦗6⦘
Its meaning can be understood to be that the men merely wish to assume the likenesses of men, and likewise the women, and that it is clarified by the earlier ḥadīth—namely, with respect to form, appearance, complexion, and clothing. This is like what we mentioned in the narration of Abū Hurayrah about the market of Paradise: someone dressed splendidly will meet another whose attire is of a lesser quality; the latter will be astonished at the former’s clothing and appearance, but before their conversation ends he will find himself clad in something even finer, for it is not permissible that anyone should feel sadness there. ⦗7⦘
This, however, presumes that the precise wording of the ḥadīth has actually been preserved, whereas the likelihood is that it has not. It was transmitted solely by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Isḥāq ibn al-Ḥārith — Abū Shaybah al-Wāsiṭī, who is also said to have been Kūfan. He narrated from his father and from his maternal uncle al-Nuʿmān ibn