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Prophet Muhammad(PBUH) used to speak in jest with elderly women
Al-Hasan (a Companion) narrated:
“An old woman came to the Prophet of Allah, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, and said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, supplicate that Allah admits me into Jannah (Paradise).’ To which he, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, replied: “O Umm so and so [the mother of so and so], Paradise will not have old people in it.” The old lady started to cry and walk away, so the Prophet of Allah, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, said to his Companions: “Tell her that she will not enter it while she is old
ecause Allah Says (what means):b
, «Indeed, We have produced them [i.e. the women of Paradise] in a [new] creation. And made them virgins. Devoted [to their husbands] and of equal age.»
[Quran: 56:35-37]””4
He, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, said what he did jokingly with her, but he only wanted to clarify to her that when she is admitted into Paradise, she will be thirty-three years old.
