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This article examines the [[Daleel|authenticity]] of [[hadith]] which refer to 72 [[virgins]] in [[Heaven|Paradise]].  
This article examines the [[Daleel|authenticity]] of [[hadith]] which refer to 72 [[virgins]] in [[Heaven|Paradise]].  


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Shaykh [[Gibril Haddad]] is a hadith expert (muhaddith),<ref name="The 500"></ref> recognized as one of the world’s leading authorities on the [[Islamic Law|Shari’ah]].<ref>[http://kitaabun.com/shopping3/product_info.php?products_id=2519 The Refutation of him who attributes direction to Allah] - Kitaabun, accessed May 6, 2011 </ref> In 2009, he was listed amongst the inaugural "500 most influential Muslims in the world," and was referred to as "one of the clearest voices of traditional Islam in the West".<ref name="The 500">Edited by Prof. John Esposito and Prof. Ibrahim Kalin - [http://thebook.org/books_pdf/500Muslims_2009.pdf The 500 Most Influential Muslims in the World (P. 94)] - The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre, 2009</ref> The following borrows mainly from a 2005 [[fatwa]] issued by him.<ref>Shaykh Gibril Haddad - [http://www.webcitation.org/64zXNO08I How Many Wives Will The Believers Have In Paradise?] - SunniPath, Question ID:4828, July 3, 2005</ref>
Shaykh [[Gibril Haddad]] is a hadith expert (muhaddith),<ref name="The 500"></ref> recognized as one of the world’s leading authorities on the [[Islamic Law|Shari’ah]].<ref>[http://kitaabun.com/shopping3/product_info.php?products_id=2519 The Refutation of him who attributes direction to Allah] - Kitaabun, accessed May 6, 2011 </ref> In 2009, he was listed amongst the inaugural "500 most influential Muslims in the world," and was referred to as "one of the clearest voices of traditional Islam in the West".<ref name="The 500">Edited by Prof. John Esposito and Prof. Ibrahim Kalin - [http://thebook.org/books_pdf/500Muslims_2009.pdf The 500 Most Influential Muslims in the World (P. 94)] - The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre, 2009</ref> The following borrows mainly from a 2005 [[fatwa]] issued by him.<ref>Shaykh Gibril Haddad - [http://www.webcitation.org/64zXNO08I How Many Wives Will The Believers Have In Paradise?] - SunniPath, Question ID:4828, July 3, 2005</ref>


===Reported in Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal and Sunan al-Tirmidhi ===
===Reported in Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal and Sunan al-Tirmidhi===


{{Quote| 1= [http://www.webcitation.org/64zXNO08I  Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal , Sunan al-Tirmidhi]|2= “For the Shahid in the Divine presence there will be six qualities: [1] he will be forgiven from the first moment his blood is spilled; [2] he shall see his seat in Paradise and be protected against the punishment of the grave; [3] he shall be safe from the Greatest Terror [the rising of the dead]; [4] he shall be crowned with the diadem of dignity, one ruby of which is worth more than the entire world and its contents; [5] he shall be coupled with '''seventy-two''' spouses from the wide-eyed maidens of Paradise; and [6] he shall be granted to intercede for seventy of his relatives.”}}
{{Quote| 1= [http://www.webcitation.org/64zXNO08I  Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal , Sunan al-Tirmidhi]|2= “For the Shahid in the Divine presence there will be six qualities: [1] he will be forgiven from the first moment his blood is spilled; [2] he shall see his seat in Paradise and be protected against the punishment of the grave; [3] he shall be safe from the Greatest Terror [the rising of the dead]; [4] he shall be crowned with the diadem of dignity, one ruby of which is worth more than the entire world and its contents; [5] he shall be coupled with '''seventy-two''' spouses from the wide-eyed maidens of Paradise; and [6] he shall be granted to intercede for seventy of his relatives.”}}
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{{Quote| 1= [http://www.webcitation.org/64zXNO08I  Sunan al-Tirmidhi Vol. IV, ch. 21, hadith 2687]|2= Abu Sa`id al-Khudri said, Allah be well-pleased with him: The Messenger of Allah said, upon him blessings and peace:
{{Quote| 1= [http://www.webcitation.org/64zXNO08I  Sunan al-Tirmidhi Vol. IV, ch. 21, hadith 2687]|2= Abu Sa`id al-Khudri said, Allah be well-pleased with him: The Messenger of Allah said, upon him blessings and peace:


“The humblest of the People of Paradise shall have eighty thousand servants and '''seventy-two''' wives. A palace of pearl and peridot(a: A pale green variety of chrysolite; used as a gemstone) and sapphire shall be erected for him as wide as the distance between al-Jabiya [a valley about 70 kms. East of Makka] and San`a’ [in Yemen].” }}
“The humblest of the People of Paradise shall have eighty thousand servants and '''seventy-two''' wives. A palace of pearl and peridot (a pale green variety of chrysolite; used as a gemstone) and sapphire shall be erected for him as wide as the distance between al-Jabiya [a valley about 70 kms. East of Makka] and San`a’ [in Yemen].” }}


===Reported in Ibn Majah, Ibn `Adi in the Kamil, and al-Bayhaqi in al-Ba`th wal-Nushur===
===Reported in Ibn Majah, Ibn `Adi in the Kamil, and al-Bayhaqi in al-Ba`th wal-Nushur===
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Moulana Muhammad ibn Moulana Haroon Abbassommar  
Moulana Muhammad ibn Moulana Haroon Abbassommar  
FACULTY OF SPECIALTY IN HADITH }}
FACULTY OF SPECIALTY IN HADITH }}
==Conclusion==
This article has shown us at least 3 things
#That Islam teaches that the martyrs who die in Jihad get 72 wives (virgins)
#That  two of them are “from the wide-eyed maidens of Paradise and seventy of them his inheritance from the People of Hellfire”
#That these hadith are considered authentic by many Muslim scholars


==See Also==
==See Also==
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