What Every Person Needs To Know About Jannah (Paradise) Episode 6 The Poor Will Enter Jannah Ahead of the Rich

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*What Every Person Needs To Know About Jannah (Paradise)*

*Episode 6*

*The Poor Will Enter Jannah Ahead of the Rich*

Muslim reports from 'Abdullaah ibn 'Amr (Radi-Allahu Anhu) that the Messenger of Allah 

(Salallahu Alayhi Wasalam) said "The poor of the Muhajireen will enter Paradise forty years ahead of the rich". (Mishkaat al-Masaabeeh, 2/663, no. 5235)

The Messenger of Allah (Salallahu Alayhi Wasalam) said: "The poor of the Muhajireen will enter Paradise five hundred years ahead of the rich of the Muhajireen" (Saheeh al-Jaami' 

4/90, no.4104).

Elsewhere the Prophet (Salallahu Alayhi Wasalam) explained that these are the people who have nothing to be brought account for, and this is in addition to their jihad and virtue. al-Haakim reported from 'Abdullaah ibn 'Amr (Radi-Allahu Anhu) that the Messenger of Allah (Salallahu Alayhi Wasalam) said, "Do you know who will be the first of my ummah to enter 

Paradise?" I said, "Allah and His Messenger know best". He said, "The poor of the 

Muhajireen. They will come to the gate of Paradise on the Day of Resurrection and ask for it to be opened. The gatekeepers will say to them, "Have you been brought to account?" 

They will say, "What do we need to be brought to account for? We were carrying our 

swords and fighting for the sake of Allah (Subhanahu Wa Ta’ala) until we died." Then 

the gates will be opened for them and they will stay there for forty years before anyone else enters". (Silsilah al-Hadith as-Saheehah, 2/532, no. 853, al-Haakim said it is sahih according 

to the conditions of al-Bukhaari and Muslim).

al-Bukhaari reports from Usaamah ibn Zayd (Radi-Allahu Anhu) that the Prophet (Salallahu 

Alayhi Wasalam) said, "I stood by the gate of Paradise and saw that the majority of those 

who entered were the poor and wretched. The rich [Muslims] were detained while the people of Hell were ordered to be taken to Hell". (Sahih al-Bukhaari, Kitaab ar-Riqaaq, Baab Sifaat al-Jannah, wan-Naar, Fath al-Baari, 2/345)

Some of the hadith quoted above, states that the poor will enter Paradise forty years ahead of other people while others state that the difference will be five hundred years. The two 

statements may be reconciled by pointing out that the poor are not all alike, neither are the 

rich. As al-Qurtubee suggested (at-Tadhkirah, p.470) the poor vary in the strength of their 

imaan and their achievements, and the same applies to the rich. If we think in terms of the 

first of the poor and the last of the rich to enter Paradise then the time-span will be five hundred years, but if we are thinking of the last of the poor and the first of the rich, then the 

time span is forty years. And Allah knows best." (Ibn Katheer, an-Nihaayah, 2/345)