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I am married with a very smart lady who converted to Islam a year ago. She has done her master's in computer science when she was 17. She usually has many intelligent questions. Some of them I answer, the other I cannot because of my lack of Islamic knowledge. Recently, She has asked these questions below. Could you please answer them for us? 1) Is it true that man get 70 women when they go to heaven? If so what is the source of this information? What do women get? 2) If a man divorces several times and marries divorced women, which family would he find in heaven third first, second wife? 3) Are man rewarded more than women in heaven?
Answer
All perfect praise be to Allah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allah, and that Muhammad 
is His slave and Messenger.
We do not know any evidence proving that a man gets seventy women in Paradise. This is reported only about the martyrs who are killed in the way of Allah. The Prophet said: “A martyr gets seven blessings, (among them he mentioned) he will marry seventy-two Houris (women of Paradise).” [Ahmad and At-Tabaraani]
Ibn Hajar 
graded it as Hasan.
As for the woman in Paradise, she will get one husband and she will not see anyone better than him. She will be satisfied with him and will never turn to anyone else. Allah Says (what means): {In them are women limiting [their] glances, untouched before them by man or jinni.} [Quran 55:56]
A man will not marry the women he had divorced in his life in Paradise because they are no longer his wives. But a person will marry his wife, who dies before him, or he dies before her but did not marry again. The Prophet said: “Any woman whose husband dies leaving her and she marries after him will be for her last husband.” [At-Tabaraani and Al-Albaani graded it sound in his book As-Silsilah As-Saheehah]
If a person marries women who were divorced and he did not divorce them in his life, or they do not marry again after his death, then they will be with him in Paradise. No doubt, a man will get more than one wife in Paradise as mentioned in many texts, but at the same time we should know that Allah will never be unjust. He will grant other kinds of His Great Blessings to women that they will never feel any shortage or sorrow. Allah has emphasized this fact in many verses. Allah Says (what means): {Whoever does righteousness, whether male or female, while he is a believer - We will surely cause him to live a good life, and We will surely give them their reward [in the Hereafter] according to the best of what they used to do.} [Quran 16:97]
Allah knows best.
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