Zamhareer Explained

Zamhareer (Arabic: الزمهرير , translit. al-zamharīr) is a place of extreme cold at the bottom of hell in some Islamic sources. It is characterized as being unbearably cold, with blizzards, ice, and snow.^[1] The term is mentioned once in the ns., stating the people in paradise will neither see the fires of the sun nor the unbearable cold of the moon.^[2] Some Islamic exegetes advocate the idea that this term refers to a place in Jahannam or in the grave. According to hadith tradition (Bukhari and Sahih Muslim), Allah allows Jahannam to take two breaths per year—one in summer and one in winter—releasing Hell's extreme temperatures upon earth.^[3] According to Ibn Abi al-Dunya, when the sinners beg the guardians of hell to leave the fire, they escape to Zamhareer and then beg to go back to the fire because it is unbearably cold. Others describe Zamhareer as a pit where the bones of the damned are scattered.^[4] Thus repeating the process of the people wanting to leave or enter Zamhareer.

External links

• “Zamharīr”: The Cold Section of Hell & the Du’ā During Cold Weather

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Coldness of Zamhareer. subulassalaam.com. 7 January 2015. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20150108015353/http://www.subulassalaam.com/articles/article.cfm?article_id=111#.VK2z58lggXg. 8 January 2015.
2. Tottoli, Roberto, and روبرتو توتولي. “The Qur’an, Qur’anic Exegesis and Muslim Traditions: The Case of zamharīr (Q. 76:13) Among Hell’s Punishments / القرآن والتفاسير والروايات الاسلامية: سورة الانسان آية رقم 13: الزمهرير من ألوان العقوبة في جهنم.” Journal of Qur’anic Studies, vol. 10, no. 1, Edinburgh University Press, 2008, pp. 142–52, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25728276.
3. See Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī no. 536 and no. 3260; Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim no. 617a and no. 617c; Sunan Ibn Mājah no. 4319; Sunan al-Dārimī no. 2887
4. Tottoli, Roberto, and روبرتو توتولي. “The Qur’an, Qur’anic Exegesis and Muslim Traditions: The Case of zamharīr (Q. 76:13) Among Hell’s Punishments / القرآن والتفاسير والروايات الاسلامية: سورة الانسان آية رقم 13: الزمهرير من ألوان العقوبة في جهنم.” Journal of Qur’anic Studies, vol. 10, no. 1, Edinburgh University Press, 2008, pp. 142–52, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25728276.