Note 168 — PART II THE DIVINE COMEDY COMPARED WITH OTHER MOSLEM LEGENDS ON THE AFTER-LIFE
Harold Sunderland translation
Cf. Kanz, ibid. No. 3,078. Also Tabari, Tafsir, XIV, 25, and Khazin, Tafsir, III, 96. Cf. also MS 234, Gayangos Coll., fol. 100 vᵒ.
“Ibn Abbas says that hell is formed of seven floors, separated one from another by a distance of five hundred years.”
In other hadiths the words gate, floor, and step are replaced by the word pit. Cf. Kanz, III, 263, No. 4,235.