مُتَّكِـِٔينَ عَلَىٰ رَفْرَفٍ خُضْرٍۢ وَعَبْقَرِىٍّ حِسَانٍۢ
Muttaki'eena 'alaa rafratin khudrinw wa 'abqariyyin hisaan
Reclining on green cushions and beautiful fine carpets.
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Paradise & Hell
55:76Ayah 178
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Reclining namely their spouses muttaki’īna syntactically it is as described above upon green cushions rafraf is the plural of rafrafa which can mean either ‘carpets’ or ‘cushions’ and lovely druggets ‘abqariyyin the plural of ‘abqariyya which are velvet carpets.
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I took it and prepared two cushions out of that and he (the Holy Prophet) used to recline against them in the house.
"I saw the Prophet (ﷺ) reclining upon a pillow."
"The Messenger of Allah (s.a.w) had a leather cushion stuffed with palm fibres which he would lean on."
A'isha reported that the pillow on which Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) reclined was of leather stuffed with palm fibre.
I then tore it and prepared two cushions out of that. A person who was then in that company and whose name was Rabi'a b. 'Ata, the freed slave of Banu Zuhra, asked: Did you hear Abu Mabammad making a mention of A'isha having stated that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) used to recline upon them? lbn al-Qasim said: No, but I heard Qasim b. Muhammad saying so.
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