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How can women be both more in Hell and more in Paradise at the same time, as Sheikh Omar Abdel Kafi mentioned?

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What the questioner heard is correct, as women are more numerous than men in both Hellfire and Paradise. Texts have indicated their large number in Hellfire, as in the agreed-upon of Ibn 'Abbas: "...And I saw that most of its inhabitants were women." As for their large number in Paradise, it is inferred from the agreed-upon Hadith of Abu Hurairah describing the first group to enter Paradise: "...And each one of them will have two wives, the marrow of whose shins will be visible from beneath their flesh." These two wives are from among humans. Other narrations state that a man in Paradise will have seventy-two wives from the Houris (fair ones with wide, lovely eyes), in addition to his wives from this world, and two wives from the descendants of Adam. Even if some of these hadiths are considered weak, the greater number of women than men in Paradise would be attributed to the Houris.

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