Sijjin

Sijjīn (Arabic: سِجِّين lit. Netherworld, Underworld, Chthonian World) is in Islamic belief either a prison, vehement torment or straitened circumstances at the bottom of Jahannam or hell, below the earth (compare Greek Tartarus),: 166  or, according to a different interpretation, a register for the damned or record of the wicked, which is mentioned in Quran 83:7. Sijjin is also considered to be a place for the souls of unbelievers until resurrection.: 21 

The idea that there is a hell underneath Earth's surface roots in the Quran, which speaks about "seven earths" (65:12), while describing hell as a subterranean pit, divided into seven compartments.: 166  Thus, many Muslim authors coincided hell with layers of the Earth with sijjin at the bottom.: 166  For the lowest layer of hell, the term al-asfal is used too.: 42  The antithesis of Sijjin is Illiyin.

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