The Messenger of God, peace and blessings of God be upon him, said, "There are one hundred degrees1 in Paradise; every two are one hundred years apart." 1) People will enter different degrees of Paradise or the Fire according to the degree of their good deeds and their sins. A good authentic ḥadīth reported by at-Tirmithī: "the Book of Describing Paradise", in Sunan at-Tirmithī: ḥadīth number 2721, narrated by Abū-Hurayrah ad-Dawsī.