أصحاب الأعراف
Aṣḥāb al-Aʿrāf
Group
Those on the elevations (al-aʿrāf) between Paradise and Hell on the Day of Judgement (7:46–49).
What it means
“Between them is a veil, and on the heights are men who know each by his mark” (7:46). They greet the people of Paradise, and speak to the people of Hell. Commentators differ on who they are: some say those whose good and bad deeds are balanced, others the righteous or prophets. The chapter that mentions them, al-A’raf, is the seventh.