Note 169 — PART II THE DIVINE COMEDY COMPARED WITH OTHER MOSLEM LEGENDS ON THE AFTER-LIFE
Harold Sunderland translation
A collection of hadiths dealing with this division into seven may be found in Qisas, 4-11; on p. 7 is a hadith by Wahb ibn Munabbih, which says:—
“Of almost all things there are seven—seven are the heavens, the earths, the mountains, the seas ... the days of the week, the planets ... the gates and floors of hell....”