QUESTION:

What do the scholars and muftis of the mighty Shari’ah say regarding this matter, will those who are our husbands and wives of this world be with us in Jannah?

Questioner: Tahira from UK

ANSWER:

بسم اللہ الرحمن الرحیم
الجواب بعون الملک الوھاب اللھم ھدایۃ الحق والصواب

Indeed! The husband and wife who enter Jannah will remain as husband and wife, but if the partner of a woman enters Jahannam, then she will be married to a martyr or a man of Jannah. The Mother of the Believers, Sayyidah Maymūnah (may Allāh be pleased with her) narrates that the Messenger of Allāh (may the peace and blessings of Allāh be upon him) said,

“فإن كان زوجها مؤمنا حسن الخلق فهي زوجته في الجنة وإلا زوجها الله من الشهداء”

“If a woman’s partner is a believer and possesses good character, then in Paradise, that woman will be married to him, and if he is not, then Allāh (Almighty) will marry that woman to one of the martyrs”.

[Mu’jam Ahādīth Maymūnah bint Hārith Zawj al-Nabī, pg 16]

If there is a woman who married more than once (for example, upon divorce from or due to the death of one man, she married another), then in such a situation, she will be with the last husband she was married to. Just as Sayyidunā Abū Dardā’ (may Allāh be pleased with him) narrates that the Prophet (may the peace and blessings of Allāh be upon him) stated, “In Paradise, a woman will be married to that man whom she married last in the world.”

[Musnad al-Shāmiyīn li al-Tabarānī, vol 2, pg 359, Hadīth 1496]

Such a woman who married more than once in this world, and all of her partners divorced her or passed away, will be given the option to marry that husband who possessed the best character in the world, and she will choose him. Just as it is mentioned in a Blessed Hadīth,

“قالت أم حبيبة يا رسول الله المرأة منا يكون لهازوجان ثم تموت فتدخل الجنة هي وزوجاها لأيهما تكون للأول أو للأخرقال تخير أحسنهما خلقا كان معها في الدنيا يكون زوجها في الجنة”

“Sayyidah Umm Habībah narrates that she enquired, ‘O Messenger of Allāh (may the peace and blessings of Allāh be upon you), if a woman has two husbands, then she and her two husbands pass away and enter Paradise, will she be with the first or the second one?’ The Noble Prophet (may the peace and blessings of Allāh be upon him) replied, ‘She will be given an option to select the one who possessed the best character in the world, he will be her husband.’”

[al-Mu’jam al-Kabīr, vol 17, pg 216]

واللہ تعالی اعلم ورسولہ اعلم صلی اللہ علیہ وآلہ وسلم
کتبہ ابو الحسن محمد قاسم ضیاء قادری

Answered by Mufti Qasim Zia al-Qadri

Translated by Zameer Ahmed

Read the original Urdu answer here – [Q-ID0236] Will a Husband & Wife be together in Jannah

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