George Sale, The Koran, commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed, translated into English immediately from the original Arabic; with Explanatory Notes, taken from the most approved Commentators. To which is prefixed A Preliminary Discource (1734)

various opinions. For, 1. Some say they stay near the sepulchres, with liberty however of going wherever they please; which they confirm from Mohammed’s manner of saluting them at their graves, and his affirming that the dead heard those salutations as well as the living, tho’ they could not answer. Whence perhaps proceeded the custom of visiting the tombs of relations, so common among the Mobammedans ¹ 2. Others imagine they are with Adam, in the lowest heaven; and also support their opinion by the authority of their prophet, who gave out that in his return from the upper heavens in his pretended night journey, he saw there the souls of those who were destined to paradise on the right hand of Adam, and of those who were condemned to hell on his left ². 3. Others fancy the souls of believers remain in the well Zemzem, and those of infidels in a certain well in the province of Hadramaut, called Borhût; but this opinion is branded as heretical. 4. Others say they stay near the graves for seven days; but that whither they go afterwards is uncertain. 5. Others that they are all in the trumpet, whose sound is to raise the dead. And, 6. Others that the souls of the good dwell in the forms of white birds, under the throne of God ³. As to che condition of the souls of the wicked, besides the opinions chat have been already mentioned, the more orthodox hold that they are offered by the angels to heaven, from whence being repulsed as stinking and filthy, they are offered to the earth, and being also refused a place there, are carried down to the seventh earth, and thrown into a dungeon, which they call Sajîn, under a green rock, or according to a tradition of Mohammed, under the devil’s jaw ⁴, to be there tormented, till they are called up to be joined again to their bodies.

Of the resurrection.
Tho’ some among the Mohammedans have thought that the resurrection will be merely spiritual, and no more than the returning of the soul to the place whence it first came (an opinion defended by Ebn Sina ⁵, and called by some the opinion of the philosophers ⁶;) and others, who allow man to consist of body only, that it will be merely corporeal; the received opinion is, that both body and soul will be raised, and their doctors argue strenuously for the possibility of the resurrection of the body, and dispute with great subtilty concerning the manner of it ⁷. But Mohammed has taken care to preserve one part of the body, whatever becomes of the rest, to serve for a basis