Chapter: The Market of the People of Paradise

252 - ʿUmar b. Muḥammad and Muḥammad b. Abī Samīna narrated to us, saying: Abū Muʿāwiya informed us from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Isḥāq, from al-Nuʿmān b. Saʿd, from ʿAlī, may God be pleased with him, who said: The Messenger of God, peace and blessings of God be upon him, said: "Indeed, in Paradise there is a market in which there is no buying or selling, except for forms of men and women. If a man desires a form, he enters into it. And indeed, in it there is a gathering place for the wide-eyed maidens (al-ḥūr al-ʿīn), who will raise voices the likes of which creation has never seen, saying: 'We are the eternal ones who never perish; we are the pleased ones who never become discontent; and we are the blissful ones who never suffer. So glad tidings to the one who is for us and we are for him.'"