In the Name of Allah, the All-Merciful, the Mercy-Giving

All praise is due to Allah. Peace and blessings be upon His Messenger Muhammad.

According to a number of Prophetic narrations, women will constitute the majority of the people of the Hellfire and few will enter the paradise. These narrations include the hadith mentioned above and the one the questioner referred to.

These hadiths are meant to warn women against such practices that drive them to such a destination. The female Companions understood such warnings in this way and reacted positively to the warning- by giving charity, for example, as in the above-mentioned hadith. When doctors say that smoking causes cancer, wise people refrain from smoking while foolish ones would accuse doctors of being biased against smokers.

There are, however, other narrations from which one can infer that women will outnumber men in the Paradise. In one narration, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) stated that each man in the Paradise will have two wives, which indicates that the number of women will be about double the number of men. To understand this paradox, we need to remember that the sinners from among the followers of Messengers will be punished in the Hellfire for a while and then will be delivered and admitted to the Paradise.

Thus, one may infer that sinful women from among the followers of Messengers will increase the number of women in the Hellfire and then after being delivered and admitted to the Paradise, they will increase the number of women there.

Almighty Allah knows best.