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Will the majority of women enter hellfire?

 



Now critics often cite the hadith:


The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "I looked at Paradise and saw that the majority of its residents were the poor; and I looked at the (Hell) Fire and saw that the majority of its residents were women.


  • Bukhari 5198




Refutation:


Now This is just 1 hadith of many, Other hadiths regarding the majority of women being in hell fire have certain reasons why a woman will enter hell fire. That's why we shouldn’t isolate a certain hadith and instead gather all reports and make a conclusion.



Now before I cite other reports, Firstly it's not just saying because you’re a woman. You’re gonna go to hell. No and lets prove that:


The Prophet (ﷺ) said:

 "I was shown the Hell-fire and that the majority of its dwellers were women who were ungrateful." It was asked, "Do they disbelieve in Allah?" (or are they ungrateful to Allah?) He replied, "They are ungrateful to their husbands and are ungrateful for the favors and the good (charitable deeds) done to them. If you have always been good (benevolent) to one of them and then she sees something in you (not of her liking), she will say, 'I have never received any good from you.


  • Bukhari 29




Here we can conclude that the woman that is ungrateful will enter hell fire and only certain women with certain qualities, like spreading secrets etc, and not just any woman that simply exits. 



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Now there is another hadith that states that women are a minority in paradise. 

And we will see how Ibn Hajar refutes that. He says: 




It is possible the narrator related the tradition by the meaning he understood, that if they make up the majority of residents in Hellfire, they must be the minority of residents in Paradise. That is not necessarily so, as I mentioned previously.


  •  Fath al bari by ibn Hajar volume 6 page 325



So here because women are the majority in hellfire doesn't automatically mean that women are a minority in hell fire. 



As we see in this report: 


The (members) of the first group to get into Paradise would have their faces as bright as full moon during the night, and the next to this group would have their faces as bright as the shining stars in the sky, and every person would have two wives and the marrow of their shanks would glimmer beneath the flesh and there would be none without a wife in Paradise.


  • Muslim 2834a





It clearly states here that a man would have 2 wives. So this shows that there would be double the amount of women than men therefore men aren't the majority and women aren't the minority in paradise. 






Now Imam Al Qahdi and Ibn Hajar commented on the report above saying:



Al Qadhi:  This tradition demonstrates that women are the majority of the people of Paradise, and in another tradition that they are a majority of the people of Hellfire. What can be deduced from them together is that women are the majority of the children of Adam.


  • Sharh al Nawawi for hadith 2834


Ibn Hajar: Abu Huraira used this tradition as evidence for there being more women in Paradise than men, as narrated from Muslim by way of Ibn Sirin; this is clear.


  • Fath al bari by ibn Hajar volume 6 page 325



So here we have that just because Women are the majority of hell fire doesn't mean they are a minority in paradise. They are in fact the majority in both.



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And Don't forget that Paradise is under the mother’s feet:


 Jahima came to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and he said, “O Messenger of Allah, I intend to join the military expedition, and I seek your counsel.” The Prophet said, “Do you have a mother?” He said yes. The Prophet said, “Stay with her, for Paradise is beneath her feet.”


  •  Sunan al Nasai 3104


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So to conclude all of this. Only certain women with specific qualities as I mentioned will enter hell fire and not just any woman as what people make it out to be. And Even if the majority of women are in hell like what they claim. They are also the majority of paradise according to our sources. 



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