So this report informs that Eve was created after Adam inhabited Paradise, so she was made a dwelling for him.
And others said: Rather, she was created before Adam inhabited Paradise.
711 - Ibn Ḥumayd narrated to us, he said: Salamah narrated to us, on the authority of Ibn Isḥāq, he said: When Allah finished reprimanding Iblīs, He turned to Adam, having taught him all the names, and said: "O Adam, inform them of their names" up to His statement: "Indeed, You are the Knowing, the Wise." He said: Then He cast slumber upon Adam—according to what has reached us from the People of the Book among the people of the Torah and other people of knowledge, on the authority of ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbbās and others—then He took a rib from his ribs from his left side, and joined flesh in its place while Adam was sleeping, not having awoken from his sleep, until Allah created from that rib of his his wife Eve, fashioning her into a woman that he might find tranquility in her. When the slumber was removed from him and he awoke from his sleep, he saw her at his side and said—according to what they claim, and Allah knows best—"My flesh, my blood, and my wife," and he found tranquility in her. When Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, married her to him and made for him a tranquility from himself, He said to him shortly thereafter: {"O Adam, dwell, you and your wife, in Paradise and eat therefrom in abundance wherever you will, but do not approach this tree, lest you be among the wrongdoers."} (1)
Abū Jaʿfar said: It is said for a man's wife: his zawj and his zawjah, and zawjah with the hāʾ is more frequent in the speech of the Arabs than without the hāʾ. And zawj without the hāʾ is said to be a dialect of Azd Shanūʾah. As for the zawj about which there is no disagreement among the Arabs, it is the husband of the woman (2).
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