Description of Paradise and its Inhabitants - Section 1

He reported God's messenger as saying, `Saihan, Jaihan', * the Euphrates and the Nile are all among the rivers of paradise." *The Sarus and Pyramus respectively, frontier rivers in the early Muslim period between the Islamic territory and that of the Byzantines. See G. Le Strange, The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate (Cambridge, 1930), pp. 129 ff. Muslim transmitted it.