Fatwa ID: 05396

Answered by: Maulana Syed Johir Miah

Question

Will the people of Jannah have body hair like they do in this world? What about hair on head and beard?

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

Answer:

There are many Ahadith regards to the descriptions of Heaven, the rivers of Heaven, the tree trunks of Heaven, the inmates of Heaven, the age of the people of Heaven, and many more.

However, regards to the hair of the body, hair and the beard of the inhabitants of Heaven, Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah ( رضى الله عنه )narrated  that Messenger (صلى الله عليه وسلم) said;

يَدْخُلُ أهْلُ الجَنَّةِ الجَنَّةَ جُرْدًا مُرْدًا، بِيضًا مُكَحَّلِينَ، أبْناءَ ثَلاثٍ وثَلاثِينَ، وهُمْ عَلى خَلْقِ آدَمَ سِتُّونَ ذِراعًا فِي سَبْعَةِ أذْرُعٍ

“The people of Jannah will enter Jannah without any hair on their body, beardless, with a fair complexion and curly hair, having collyrium in their eyes, aged thirty-three years; and they will be in the form of Adam(عليه السلام), sixty cubits tall, and seven cubits wide”.[1]

The same Hadith has been narrated by Sayyiduna Muaz Bin Jabal [2] ( رضى الله عنه ) and Sayyiduna Anas Bin Malik ( رضى الله عنه ) [3].

Only Allah knows best.

Written by Maulana Syed Johir Miah

Checked and approved by Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah

Darul Ifta Birmingham

[1] Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah, 34006, 35/7, Al-MaktabaturRushd, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 1409 H.

Mujam Awsat, Tabrani, Hadith 5422, 318/5, Darul Haramain, Cairo.

Mujam Kabir, Tabrani, Hadith 118, Maktabah Ibn Taimiyah, Cairo, Egypt.

Al-Ahadithul Mukhtarah, Diyaud Deen Al-Maqdasi, Hadith 2716, Dar Khidr, Beirut, Lebanon, 1420 H. Al-Maqdasi classified it as authentic.

إسْناده صَحِيح

[2] Mujam Awsat, Tabrani, Hadith 5422, 318/5, Darul Haramain, Cairo.

Sifatul Jannah, Abu Nuaim, Hadith 262, Darul Mamun, Damascus, Syria, 1415 H.

Sunan Tirmizi, (Bashshar) Hadith 2545, 263/4, Darul GharbilIslami, Beirut, 1998.

[3] Mujam Sagheer, 1164, 278/2, Al-MaktabulIslami, Dar Uman, Uman, 1405 H.