As for one report containing additional details beyond another in “purely factual reports,” Muslims have not differed over the fact that this does not constitute abrogation, and that an addition is not rejected if it does not contradict the original report. If a man were to say, “I saw a man,” and then say, “I saw an intelligent man,” or “a learned man,” the two statements would not contradict one another. Thus unrestricted and qualified wording, and wording with or without additions, are treated differently in “prescriptive matters” and in “factual matters.”

That being so, it may be said: Other hadiths relate that the “market” comes after “seeing Allah, glorified be He,” just as people customarily disperse throughout the land and seek Allah’s bounty in this world after visiting Allah and turning to Him on Friday. This hadith’s mention of “their faces increasing in beauty and loveliness” does not imply that this results solely from the wind, for their wives have also increased in beauty and loveliness without sharing in that wind. Rather, the wind may have brought them a further increase beyond what they had already attained. It is also possible that this hadith gives an abbreviated account of what the other hadiths relate: that the cause of the increase is “seeing Allah Most High,” together with what accompanies it.

On this understanding, it is possible that “their believing wives” have seen Allah in their homes in Paradise, and that this “seeing” brought them increased beauty and loveliness—if seeing Him is the cause, as other hadiths explicitly explain. This is just as, in their earthly lives, the men would go to the mosques and turn to Allah there, while the women would turn to Allah in their homes through the noon prayer. The men increase in light in this world through this prayer, and the women likewise increase in light through their prayer, each according to their own measure. Allah, glorified be He, is not distracted by one affair from another; rather, every servant