Hadith of the Ten Promised Paradise


The Islamic prophet, Muhammad, specified ten of his companions who were promised paradise. The companions named in this hadith are referred to as The Ten With Glad Tidings of Paradise
The hadith is collected in two of the six books of the Kutub al-Sittah: the Jamiʿ at-Tirmidhi and the Sunan Abu Dawood.
The version of the hadith collected in the Jamiʿ at-Tirmidhi goes as follows:

Sunni view

s put different weight on this hadith, the majority of Sunnis viewing it favorably whilst the Shiites dismissed it in its entirety. This hadith was narrated in three collections by Tirmidhi, Abu Dawood, and Ibn Majah.
The Sunni collection of hadith, called the Kutub al-Sittah, includes: Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, Sunan Abu Dawood, Al-Sunan al-Sughra, Jami` at-Tirmidhi and Sunan ibn Majah. Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim are considered the most reliable of these collections.
Sunnis say that Muhammad's companions were sorted into twelve groups and of these the ten promised paradise were ranked first.

Shia view

Shias reject this hadeeth completely as they do not have these traditions within their hadith corpus. They also believe that these traditions are fabricated within the Sunni compendiums during the era of the Umayyad dynasty as the traditions differ between themselves on who those 10 individuals are.