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The Sunni hadith scholar Al-Tirmidhi quotes Muhammad as having said: The smallest reward for the people of Heaven is an abode where there are eighty thousand servants and seventy-two houri, over which stands a dome decorated with pearls, aquamarine, and ruby, as wide as the distance from al-Jabiyyah to San'a. [62] [63]
The Quran does not promise martyrs 72 virgins in heaven. It does mention that virgin female companions, houri, are given to all people, martyr or not, in heaven, but no number is specified. [262] The source for the 72 virgins is a hadith in Sunan al-Tirmidhi by Imam Tirmidhi.
Firdaus is used in Qu'ran 18:107 and 23:11 [14] and also designates the highest level of heaven. [15] In contrast to Jannah, the words Jahannam, an-Nār, jaheem, saqar, and other terms are used to refer to the concept of hell. There are many Arabic words for both Heaven and Hell that also appear in the Qu'ran and in the Hadith. Most of them ...
72 virgins could refer to multiple things. For the political trope Islamophobia § 72 virgins; For the heavenly beings in South/Central Asian folklore, see Houri § 72 virgins; For the 2004 novel by Boris Johnson, see Seventy-Two Virgins; For the telegram channel, see Palestinian suicide attacks § 72 virgins
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The word houri, universally [citation needed] interpreted by scholars as "white-eyed virgins" [dubious – discuss] (who will serve the faithful in Paradise; Qur'an 44:54, 52:20, 55:72, 56:22) means, according to Luxenberg, "white grapes" or "raisins". He says that many Christian descriptions of Paradise describe it as abounding in pure white ...