Hell Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==== In the heavens ==== [[File:Maalik opens the gates of hell.jpg|thumb|Muhammad requests Malik to show him Hell during his heavenly journey. Miniature from [[The David Collection]].]] Although the earliest reports about [[Muhammad]]'s [[Isra and Mi'raj|journey through the heavens]], do not locate hell in the heavens,<ref name="Colby 2016 Fire in the Upper Heavens">{{cite book |last1=Colby |first1=Frederick |chapter=Fire in the Upper Heavens: Locating Hell in Middle Period Narratives of Muḥammad's Ascension |pages=124–143 |jstor=10.1163/j.ctt1w8h1w3.12 |doi=10.1163/9789004301368_007 |editor1-last=Lange |editor1-first=Christian |title=Locating Hell in Islamic Traditions |date=2016 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-30121-4 }}</ref> only brief references about visiting hell during the journey appears. But extensive accounts about Muhammad's night journey, in the non-canonical but popular Miraj-Literature, tell about encountering the angels of hell. [[Malik]], the keeper to the gates of hell, namely appears in [[Ibn Abbas|Ibn Abbas']] [[Isra and Mi'raj]].<ref name="Lange 2016 Introducing Hell in Islamic Studies"/> The doors to hell are either in the third<ref name="Colby 2016 Fire in the Upper Heavens"/> or fifth heaven,<ref>Colby, F. S. (2008). Narrating Muhammad's Night Journey: Tracing the Development of the Ibn 'Abbas Ascension Discourse. US: State University of New York Press. p. 137</ref><ref name="Lange 2016 Introducing Hell in Islamic Studies"/> or (although only implicitly) in a heaven close [[Throne of God|God's throne]],<ref name="Colby 2016 Fire in the Upper Heavens"/> or directly after entering heaven,<ref>Colby, F. S. (2008). Narrating Muhammad's Night Journey: Tracing the Development of the Ibn 'Abbas Ascension Discourse. US: State University of New York Press. p. 138</ref> whereupon Muhammad requests a glaze at hell. [[Ibn Hisham]] gives extensive details about Muhammad visiting hell and its inhabitants punished wherein, but can only endure watching the punishments of the first layer of hell.<ref>Lange, C. (2016). Paradise and Hell in Islamic Traditions. Vereinigtes Königreich: Cambridge University Press.</ref> Muhammad meeting Malik, the Dajjal and hell, was used as a proof for Muhammad's Night Journey.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Vuckovic |first1=Brooke Olson |title=Heavenly Journeys, Earthly Concerns: The Legacy of the Mi'raj in the Formation of Islam |date=2004 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-88524-3 }}{{page needed|date=February 2022}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page