Who is More in Jannah – Men or Women

Now we get to the million dollar question: Who populates the majority of Jannah – men or women? Abu Hurayrah heard a conversation between the sahabah. Some of the men who were present were boasting that men are more than women in Jannah. Muhammad reported that some man stated with a sense of pride and some disgust whether they would be more men in Paradise or more women. Upon that, Abu Hurayrah reported that the Prophet sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam said, “The members of the first group to get into Jannah would have their faces as bright as the full moon at night. And the next group would have their faces as bright as a shining star. And every person among them will have two wives, and the marrow of their shanks would glimmer beneath their flesh. And there would be none amongst them that would be without a wife.” Abu Hurayrah was using this hadith to refute what they were saying: that men are more than women in Jannah. Abu Hurayrah was saying no because every man will be married to two wives, and every man will be married – therefore, women are double the number of men in Jannah. This was the response of Abu Hurayrah. This is good news for the sisters.

However, for the sisters there is a slight bad news – we don’t know if these two wives are from hoor al ‘ayn or if they are from the women of the dunya. Since the Prophet sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam said in a hadith of Bukhaari and Muslim that the majority of the people in hell are women. “I’ve seen that the minority of the population of Jannah are women.”