Combining the problematic hadiths mentioned about the number of heavens and their degrees “adescriptive and analytical study”

Abstract

The research tackles the numbers of heavens and their levels through a weighted descriptive study. The research aims to explain the integrity of the Sharia and prove the absence of its contradiction or conflict, and giving weight to the hadiths mentioned in the numbers and degrees of the heavens, with clarifying the scholars’ understanding of the problematic hadiths. The researcher adopts the descriptive, inductive, and analytical method. The most important findings are:Scholars differ regarding the number of heavens, in four sayings, the first one is they are four, the second they are seven, the third they are eight and the fourth they are only one. The most weighting view is that they are four heavens, because this saying combines the narrated Hadiths in the number of heavens. In addition, the scholars differ in the number of levels of heavens based on three opinions: According to the number of verses in the Qur’an, it is one hundred levels, the exact number of which is known only to the Almighty Allah.