Sunan Ibn Majah 2797

Translation

“Whoever asks Allah for martyrdom, sincerely from his heart, Allah will cause him to reach the status of the martyrs even if he dies in his bed.”

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Same hadith, other wordings

• Sunan Abu Dawud 1520مَنْ سَأَلَ اللَّهَ الشَّهَادَةَ صَادِقًا بَلَّغَهُ اللَّهُ مَنَازِلَ الشُّهَدَاءِ وَإِنْ مَاتَ عَلَى فِرَاشِهِ
• Sunan an-Nasa'i 3162أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ مَنْ سَأَلَ اللَّهَ ﷻ الشَّهَادَةَ بِصِدْقٍ بَلَّغَهُ اللَّهُ مَنَازِلَ الشُّهَدَاءِ وَإِنْ مَاتَ عَلَى فِرَاشِهِ
• Misykatul Mashabih 3808وَعَن سهل بن حنيف قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: " مَنْ سَأَلَ اللَّهَ الشَّهَادَةَ بِصِدْقٍ بَلَّغَهُ اللَّهُ مَنَازِلَ الشُّهَدَاءِ وَإِنْ مَاتَ عَلَى فِرَاشِهِ. رَوَاهُ مُسلم
• Shahih Muslim 1909«مَنْ سَأَلَ اللَّهَ الشَّهَادَةَ بِصِدْقٍ بَلَّغَهُ اللَّهُ مَنَازِلَ الشُّهَدَاءِ وَإِنْ مَاتَ عَلَى فِرَاشِهِ».

Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 22116Sahih Ibn Hibban 3191al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 18631Musnad Abi Ya'la 3447

Narrators

1. 1
   Sahl b. Ḥunayf al-Awsī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 37 AH, or 38 AH
   سَهْلُ بْنُ حُنَيْفٍ الْأَوْسِيُّصحابي
   عن
2. 2
   Asʿad b. Sahl b. Ḥunayf

   Counted among the Companions; he saw the Prophet ﷺ but did not hear from himd. 100 AH
   أَبِيهِمعدود في الصحابة ، له رؤية ، ولم يسمع من النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم
   عن
3. 3
   Sahl b. Abī Umāmah b. Sahl b. Ḥunayf

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 111 and 120 AH
   سَهْلَ بْنَ أَبِي أُمَامَةَ بْنِ سَهْلِ بْنِ حُنَيْفٍثقة
   حدثه
4. 4
   ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Shurayḥ

   trustworthy (thiqah), virtuous, Ibn Saʿd was not right in deeming him weakd. 167 AH
   أَبُو شُرَيْحٍ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ شُرَيْحٍثقة فاضل ، لم يصب ابن سعد في تضعيفه
   حدثني
5. 5
   ʿAbdullāh b. Wahb al-Miṣrī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), devout (ʿābid)d. 197 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ وَهْبٍثقة حافظ ، عابد
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Aḥmad b. ʿĪsā

   truthful (ṣadūq), some of his hearings were criticized, al-Khaṭīb said: without proofd. Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī said, and Ibn Qāniʿ, and Ibn Yūnus: 243 AH, Ibn Ḥibbān said: before 240 AH
   وَأَحْمَدُ بْنُ عِيسَىصدوق تلكم في بعض سماعاته ، قال الخطيب : بلا حجة
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Ibn Mājah

   one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AH
   ابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ

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