Reading guide: the English passages below are plain-language summaries of narrations reported from the Prophet ﷺ, written for this session. They are not direct quotations and not translations. The Arabic is quoted from the Sunnah.com page named beneath each one, and the full source entry with its chain is one click away. Connections to the verses are editorial.
Summary: After the believers are saved from the Fire, they are stopped at a bridge between Paradise and the Fire. There the wrongs they did to each other in this world are settled between them. When they have been cleaned and purified, they are let into Paradise. And each of them will know his home in Paradise better than he knew his home in this world.
Connection to the verses · editorial reflection: This is the narration Ibn Kathir brings at ayah 43. It shows how the resentment, ghill, is taken out: the wrongs between believers are settled before anyone goes in. In al-Bukhari’s chain, one of the narrators first quotes the words that open ayah 43 and 15:47: “And We will have removed whatever is within their breasts of resentment.” See the tafsir unit →
Summary: A caller will call out to the people of Paradise: you will be healthy and never fall ill. You will live and never die. You will be young and never grow old. You will live in comfort and never be distressed. That is what Allah says: “And they will be called, ‘This is Paradise, which you have been made to inherit for what you used to do.’”
Connection to the verses · editorial reflection: In Sahih Muslim this narration sits under a chapter heading that is ayah 43 itself, and it ends by reciting the ayah’s last sentence. It tells us what the call in that sentence holds. See the tafsir unit →
Summary: Whoever calls people to guidance has a reward like the rewards of everyone who follows him, and their reward is not reduced at all. Whoever calls people to misguidance carries a sin like the sins of everyone who follows him, and their sins are not reduced at all.
Connection to the verses · editorial reflection: “For each is double,” seen from the side of the one who leads. He carries his own sin and a share like that of each person who followed him, and their share is not made smaller. That is close to Ibn Kathir’s reading of ayah 38. The narration also carries the good half: whoever calls others to guidance is rewarded the same way. See the tafsir unit →
Summary: Angels come to a person who is dying. If he was righteous, they say: come out, good soul, with good news of mercy and of a Lord who is not angry. It is taken up, the gate of heaven is opened for it, and it is welcomed until it reaches the heaven above which is Allah. If he was evil, they say: come out, evil soul. It is taken up, but the gate is not opened for it. It is told: go back, for the gates of heaven will not be opened for you. And it is sent back down. The narration also says what awaits the evil soul; this summary leaves that part out.
Narrated by Abu Hurayrah.
Sunan Ibn Majah 4262 · Book 37, Hadith 163 · Grade: Sahih (Darussalam, as listed on Sunnah.com) · Full narration on Sunnah.com ↗
Connection to the verses · editorial reflection: The words of ayah 40, “the gates of Heaven will not be opened for them,” in the Prophet’s ﷺ description of death. Al-Tabari uses this narration for his view that the gates are closed to their souls as well as their deeds. Ayah 37 has the same scene: the angels who come at death. See the tafsir units on ayat 40–41 and ayah 37 →
Summary: Do good deeds properly and with balance, and be glad: no one’s good deeds will bring him into Paradise. They asked: not even you, Messenger of Allah? He said: not even me, unless Allah covers me with His forgiveness and mercy.
Connection to the verses · editorial reflection: The other side of “you have been made to inherit it for what you used to do” in ayah 43. Ibn Kathir and al-Qurtubi both bring a version of this hadith at the ayah, and each explains how the two fit together; the tafsir page gives their explanations. See the tafsir unit →
For the facilitator: Use the linked source text when quoting a narration verbatim.
