In Islamic tradition, eight gates are traditionally said to lead into Jannah, the paradise of the righteous.
Jannah, Arabic for “garden,” is Islam’s heavenly realm of reward after judgment. The Qur’an describes gardens beneath which rivers flow, while hadith literature provides additional details about its gates, levels, inhabitants, and virtues. The number eight is associated especially with hadith reports about the gates of Paradise.
Different gates are linked in traditional accounts with particular acts of devotion, such as prayer, fasting, charity, pilgrimage, and striving for righteousness. Some reports also describe a special gate for those who fast, called al-Rayyan.
Jannah should not be confused with Jahannam, the Islamic hell, which is traditionally associated with seven gates. Islamic descriptions of the afterlife combine Qur’anic imagery with later interpretive and hadith traditions, so individual lists of gate names can vary between sources.