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Hur al-'ayn (companions of paradise)

الحور العين

The hur al-'ayn in Islamic conception are among the promised blessings of paradise for the believers; Ibn Kathir mentions them in the chapters interpreting paradise's description 1, and the Sharh al-Tahawiyya details the gates of paradise and its bliss 2.

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Afterlife and eschatology

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The hur al-'ayn in Islamic conception are among the promised blessings of paradise for the believers, mentioned in the chapters interpreting paradise's description 1.

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Ibn Kathir mentions the hur al-'ayn in the chapters on paradise's attributes 1; the Sharh al-Tahawiyya details paradise's bliss 2.

People and things also explored

Islamic eschatology· Loss and gain in time (al-khusr)· Companions of the Fire and of Paradise· The most beautiful names of God (asma' Allah al-husna)· Selling self and wealth to God (bay al-nafs wal-mal ila Allah)· The Dajjal· The transience of the world (fana al-dunya)· Ghurbat al-Islam (the strangeness of Islam)

Sources

  1. Tafsir Ibn Kathir
  2. Sharh al-Tahawiyya, Ibn Abi al-Izz al-Hanafi (Dar al-Hadith, Cairo)
  • Christian Lange, Paradise and Hell in Islamic Traditions (Cambridge 2016)
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islam.museum contributors. “Hur al-'ayn (companions of paradise)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/concept/hur/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-25.

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Islamic eschatology

Islamic eschatology is the part of the creed concerned with death, the signs of the Hour, resurrection, reckoning and recompense; the Tahawiyya and its Sharh devote a chapter to belief in the signs of the Hour, noting that scholars devoted whole works to its hadiths.