Is it true that a martyr who dies with a debt does not enter Paradise until his debt is paid?
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The questioner : May Allah send blessings upon Muhammad. The question has two parts: First, the fighter or the one striving in the path of Allah, before my brother...The Shaykh : and the attendees were learning jurisprudence and there were circles of knowledge. We were unaware that the one striving in the path of Allah would stand at the gate of Paradise because he did not pay his debt. We did not know this, and now, by the grace of Allah, we have come to know it.
The Shaykh : Praise be to Allah.
The questioner : As for the one striving in the path of Allah, if he fulfilled all the commands issued by Allah the Exalted and Majestic upon him, such as prayer, fasting, zakah, and Hajj, and he was only occupied with the debt—do you think that the circumstances of jihad have become easy for the Muslims and he strived in the path of Allah? Does this debt actually prevent him from entering Paradise?
The Shaykh : No, there is no hadith that says this indebted martyr does not enter Paradise. Rather, the hadith says:; but whether he enters Paradise or not is a separate matter. That is, we cannot say about the non-martyr that if he died in debt, he does not enter Paradise. If that is the case for the non-martyr, what can be said about the martyr? But we say that the death of the martyr with a debt prevents the forgiveness of that specific sin, which is the debt, while his other sins are forgiven.
The Shaykh : Praise be to Allah.
The questioner : As for the one striving in the path of Allah, if he fulfilled all the commands issued by Allah the Exalted and Majestic upon him, such as prayer, fasting, zakah, and Hajj, and he was only occupied with the debt—do you think that the circumstances of jihad have become easy for the Muslims and he strived in the path of Allah? Does this debt actually prevent him from entering Paradise?
The Shaykh : No, there is no hadith that says this indebted martyr does not enter Paradise. Rather, the hadith says:
Every sin of the martyr is forgiven except the debt; all his sins are forgiven except the debt.
يغفر للشهيد كل ذنب له إلا الدين تغفر ذنوبه كلها إلا الدين
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