
The ḥūr do not sleep, do not get pregnant, do not menstruate, spit, or blow their noses, and are never sick. Working often with multiples of seven, the traditionalists have described them as wearing seventy to 70,000 gowns, through which even the marrow of their bones can be seen because of the fineness of their flesh, reclining on seventy couches of red hyacinth encrusted with rubies and jewels, and the like. Neck, and camphor from the neck to the head. They are generally said to be composed of saffron from the feet to the knees, musk from the knees to the breast, amber from the breast to the

Hadith description ĭetails of descriptions of houri (or ḥūr), in hadith collections differ, but one summary (by Smith & Haddad) states: It is thought that the four verses specifically mentioning Houri were all "probably" revealed at "the end of the first Meccan period". And We will marry them to fair women with large, eyes".

78:31–33 and as "splendid companions",.56:35 "created without the process of birth",.56:8 "the people of the right, how ˹blessed˺ will they be" 56:22 and they will have "houris maidens with intensely black eyes set against the whiteness of their irises",.55:74 "untouched by any man", "reclining on green cushions and beautiful carpets",.55:72 "bright-eyed damsels in sheltered in pavilions",.55:58 "as elegant as rubies and coral",.55:56 "untouched beforehand by man or jinn",.52:20 "beautiful houris of wide and beautiful eyes",.38:52 "companions of modest gaze well matched.37:48 "with large and beautiful eyes",.In the tafsirs and commentaries on the Quran, Houris are described as: No specific number is ever given in the Quran for the number of houris accompanying each believer. The houris are mentioned in several passages of the Quran, always in plural form.


The word "houri" has entered several European languages from around the 17th and 18th centuries. In classical Arabic usage, the word ḥūr ( Arabic: حُور) is the plural of both ʾaḥwar ( Arabic: أحْوَر) (masculine) and ḥawrāʾ ( Arabic: حَوْراء) (feminine) which can be translated as "having eyes with an intense contrast of white and black".
