3002 – The Songs of the Heavenly Wives

3002 – “Indeed, the heavenly wives (ḥūr) in Paradise will sing and say: ‘We are beautiful and good heavenly wives, we have been gifted to noble husbands’”.

Reported by al-Bukhārī in al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr (4/1/16), Ibn Abī Dāwūd in al-Baʿth wa al-Nushūr (75), and al-Ṭabarānī in al-Awsaṭ (6642) via Ibn Abī Fudayk: from Ibn Abī al-Dhiʾb: from ʿAwn b. al-Khaṭṭāb b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Rāfiʿ: from a son of Anas b. Mālik: that Anas b. Mālik…in marfūʿ form [raised to the Prophet ﷺ].

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3001 – The Flying Horses of Paradise

“If you are admitted into Paradise, you shall be brought a horse of rubies with two wings, then you shall be carried on it, then it will fly with you wherever you wish.”

Reported by al-Tirmidhī (2547) and al-Ṭabarānī (4/215: 4075), and from him Abū Nuʿaym in Ṣifat al-Jannah [Description of Paradise] (261/423) by way of Wāṣil b. al-Sāʾib, from Abū Sawrah, from Abū Ayyūb [who] said:

“A Bedouin came to the Prophet, may the praise and protection of Allāh be upon him, and said, ‘O Messenger of Allāh, I love horses, are there horses in Paradise?’ The Messenger of Allāh, may the praise and protection of Allāh be upon him, said: … and he mentioned the ḥadīth.

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