Q: Will the residents of paradise be white skinned/fair colored:
Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) quotes the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) as saying, “The People of Paradise will enter it (in the best form). They will be hairless (in their body). They will have moustaches, not beards. They will be white-colored and strong. Their eyelashes are darkened with kohl (eyeliner). They will be thirty-three years. They will resemble Adam (in appearance and figure), their length will be sixty cubits and their width will be seven cubits."
I found this from islamqa:
Narrated by al-Bukhaari (6192) and Muslim (184).
2 – The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) stated that they will change after they are brought forth from the Fire.
It was narrated from Jaabir (may Allaah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said of the Jahannamiyyoon (those who had been in Hell) that they “would be brought forth from the Fire after having been in it. They will come out as if they are branches of sesame. Then they will go into one of the rivers of Paradise, where they will wash themselves, then they will emerge like sheets of paper.”
Narrated by Muslim (191).
Al-Nawawi (may Allaah have mercy on him) said: The word sesame refers to the well-known sesame from which sesame oil is extracted. Imam Abu’l-Sa’aadaat al-Mubaarak ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Kareem al-Jazari, who is known as Ibn al-Atheer (may Allaah have mercy on him), said: What it means – and Allaah knows best – is that if the branches of sesame are gathered and left in the sun so that their seeds may be collected, they turn thin and black as if they have been burned, so these people are likened to them.
“then they will emerge like sheets of paper” They are likened to sheets of paper because they will be so white after they wash themselves and all the blackness that was on them is removed.
Sharh Muslim (3/52).
According to a report narrated by al-Bukhaari (6190):
It was narrated from Jaabir (may Allaah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “They will emerge from the Fire through intercession as if they are small cucumbers.”
Al-Haafiz Ibn Hajar (may Allaah have mercy on him) said:
With regard to small cucumbers … What is meant is something that is white and small.
Also, the Prophet sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam ( may Allaah exalt his mention ) said about the Muslims who would come out of Hellfire and be admitted to Paradise, “They will enter one of the rivers of Paradise and bathe in it, and when they come out, they will be as white as paper…” [Muslim]
The scholars may Allaah have mercy upon them said, “He [Prophet] said that they were like paper because of them being so white after bathing and because the blackness that was on them was removed.”
I was wondering, will the residents of paradise all have white skin, be 33 years old and have no beards? Islamweb says that all residents of paradise will be white but I was wondering, like does the original arabic mean anything?
