Sunan an-Nasa'i 3162

Translation

"Whoever asks Allah, the mighty and Sublime, sincerely for martyrdom, Allah will cause him to reach the status of the martyrs even of 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 Ibnu Majah 2797مَنْ سَأَلَ اللَّهَ الشَّهَادَةَ بِصِدْقٍ مِنْ قَلْبِهِ 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
   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
   ابْنُ وَهْبٍثقة حافظ ، عابد
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Yūnus b. ʿAbd al-Aʿlā

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 264 AH
   يُونُسُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْأَعْلَىثقة
   أخبرنا
7. 7
   al-Nasāʾī

   the preserver (al-Ḥāfiẓ)d. 302 AH, or 303 AH
   النَّسَائِيُّالحافظ

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

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