And prayers and peace be upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions.

The reader: Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and blessings and peace be upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions.
The author (may Allah have mercy on him) transmitted in the context of the hadiths in the Book of Jihad: "From Abu Qatadah (may Allah be pleased with him)

Abu Qatadah (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) stood up among his Companions and said, "Jihad in the way of Allah and belief in Allah (with all His Attributes) are the most meritorious of actions." A man stood up and said: "O Messenger of Allah! Inform me if I am killed in the way of Allah, will my sins be blotted out?" The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, "Yes, in case you are killed in the way of Allah and you remained patient, hopeful of reward, and advancing forward without retracing back (i.e., while fighting)." Then he said, "What was your question?" He inquired again: "Inform me, if I am killed in the way of Allah, will all my sins be blotted out?" The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) replied, "If you remained patient, hopeful of reward and always fought without turning your back upon enemy, everything, except debt, will be forgiven. Jibril has told me this." [Muslim] .

أن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم قام فيهم فذكر أن الجهاد في سبيل الله والإيمان بالله أفضل الأعمال، فقام رجل فقال: يا رسول الله أرأيت إن قتلت في سبيل الله أتكفر عني خطاياي؟ فقال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: نعم إن قتلت في سبيل الله وأنت صابر محتسب مقبل غير مدبر، ثم قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: كيف قلت؟ قال: أرأيت إن قتلت في سبيل الله أتكفر عني خطاياي؟ فقال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: نعم وأنت صابر محتسب مقبل غير مدبر إلا الدَّين، فإن جبريل عليه السلام قال لي ذلك

Riyad as-Salihin 1313

Narrated by Muslim, and from Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) who said:

A man said: Where will I be, O Messenger of Allah, if I am killed? He said: In Paradise. So he threw away the dates that were in his hand, then he fought until he was killed.

قال رجل أين أنا يا رسول الله إن قتلت؟ قال: في الجنة، فألقى تمرات كن في يده ثم قاتل حتى قتل

Narrated by Muslim, and from Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) who said:

Anas (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and his Companions reached Badr before the polytheists, and when they arrived, he (ﷺ) directed: "Let no one of you advance ahead of me." When the polytheists came near, the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, "Now stand up and proceed towards Jannah which is as wide as are the heavens and the earth." 'Umair bin Al-Humam (May Allah be pleased with him) asked: "Is Jannah as wide as are the heaven and the earth?" The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) replied in the affirmative. 'Umair remarked: "Great!" The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) asked him what had urged him to say so. He replied: "Nothing, O Messenger of Allah! But hope that I might become one of the inhabitants of Jannah." The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, "You will definitely be among them." 'Umair then took some dates out of his quiver and began to eat them, but after a short time he said: "If I survive till I eat my dates, it will mean a long life." So he threw away the dates which he had with him and then fought with the enemy till he was killed. [Muslim] .

انطلق رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم وأصحابه حتى سبقوا المشركين إلى بدر، وجاء المشركون فقال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: لا يقدمن أحد منكم إلى شيء حتى أكون أنا دونه، فدنا المشركون فقال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: قوموا إلى جنة عرضها السموات والأرض، قال: يقول عمير بن الحمام الأنصاري رضي الله عنه: يا رسول الله جنة عرضها السموات والأرض؟ قال: نعم، قال: بخ بخ، فقال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: ما يحملك على قولك بخ بخ؟ قال: فإنك من أهلها، فأخرج تمرات من قرنه فجعل يأكل منهن ثم قال: لئن أنا حييت حتى آكل تمراتي هذه إنها لحياة طويلة، فرمى بما كان معه من التمر ثم قاتلهم حتى قتل

Riyad as-Salihin 1315

Narrated by Muslim, and from him (may Allah be pleased with him) who said:

Some people came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: "Send with us men who will teach us the Qur'an and the Sunnah." So he sent to them seventy men from the Ansar, called the Qurrat, among whom was my maternal uncle Haram. They would recite the Qur'an and study it among themselves at night, learning it. By day, they would bring water and place it in the mosque, gather firewood and sell it, and buy food with the proceeds for the people of the Suffah and the poor. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) sent them, but they were intercepted and killed before they reached their destination. They said: "O Allah, convey to our Prophet that we have met You, and we are pleased with You and You are pleased with us." A man came up behind Haram, the maternal uncle of Anas, and stabbed him with a spear, piercing him through. Haram said: "I have won, by the Lord of the Ka'bah." The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Your brothers have been killed, and they said: 'O Allah, convey to our Prophet that we have met You, and we are pleased with You and You are pleased with us.'"

جاء ناس إلى النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم أن ابعث معنا رجالًا يعلمونا القرآن والسنة
فبعث إليهم سبعين رجلًا من الأنصار يقال لهم القراء فيهم خالي حرام، يقرؤون القرآن ويتدارسونه بالليل يتعلمون، وكانوا بالنهار يجيئون بالماء فيضعونه في المسجد، ويحتطبون فيبيعونه ويشترون به الطعام لأهل الصفة وللفقراء، فبعثهم النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم فعرضوا لهم فقتلوهم قبل أن يبلغوا المكان، فقالوا: اللهم بلغ عنا نبينا أنا قد لقيناك فرضينا عنك ورضيت عنا، وأتى رجلٌ حرامًا خال أنس من خلفه فطعنه برمح حتى أنفذه، فقال حرام: فزت ورب الكعبة، فقال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: إن إخوانكم قد قتلوا وإنهم قالوا : اللهم بلغ عنا نبينا أنا قد لقيناك فرضينا عنك ورضيت عنا

Agreed upon by al-Bukhari and Muslim, and this is the wording of Muslim, and from him (may Allah be pleased with him) who said: غاب عمي أنس بن النضر رضي الله عنه عن قتال بدر فقال يا رسول الله: غبت عن أول قتال قاتلت المشركين لئن الله أشهدني قتال المشركين ليرين الله ما أصنع، فلما كان يوم أحد انكشف المسلمون فقال: اللهم إني أعتذر إليك مما صنع هؤلاء يعني أصحابه وأبرأ إليك مما صنع هؤلاء يعني المشركين، ثم تقدم فاستقبله سعد بن معاذ فقال يا سعد بن معاذ: الجنة ورب النضر إني أجد ريحها من دون أحد، فقال سعد: فما استطعت يا رسول الله ما صنع، قال أنس: فوجدنا به بضعًا وثمانين ضربة بالسيف أو طعنة برمح أو رمية بسهم، ووجدناه قد قتل ومثل به المشركون فما عرفه أحد إلا أخته ببنانه، قال أنس: كنا نرى أو نظن أن هذه الآية نزلت فيه وفي أشباهه من المؤمنين رجال صدقوا ما عاهدوا الله عليه فمنهم من قضى نحبه إلى آخرها My uncle Anas ibn al-Nadr (may Allah be pleased with him) was absent from the Battle of Badr. He said: "O Messenger of Allah, I was absent from the first battle in which you fought the polytheists. If Allah lets me witness the fighting of the polytheists, He will see what I do." When the day of Uhud came and the Muslims were routed, he said: "O Allah, I absolve You of what these people have done," meaning his Companions, "and I disavow You of what these people have done," meaning the polytheists. Then he advanced, and Sa'd ibn Mu'adh met him. He said: "O Sa'd ibn Mu'adh, by the Lord of al-Nadr, I smell the scent of Paradise from beyond Uhud." Sa'd said: "What could I do, O Messenger of Allah, about what he did?" Anas said: "We found on him eighty wounds, by sword, spear, or arrow. We found that he had been killed and mutilated by the polytheists, and no one recognized him except his sister by his fingernails." Anas said: "We thought or believed that this verse was revealed concerning him and those like him among the believers: 'Men who fulfilled their covenant with Allah...'" to the end of it. Agreed upon by al-Bukhari and Muslim, and from Samurah (may Allah be pleased with him) who said:

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Last night two men came to me (in a dream) and made me ascend a tree and then admitted me into a better and superior house, better of which I have never seen. One of them said, 'This house is the house of martyrs."

قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: رأيت الليلة رجلين أتياني فصعدا بي الشجرة فأدخلاني دارًا هي أحسن وأفضل لم أر قط أحسن منها، قالا: أما هذه الدار فدار الشهداء

Sahih al-Bukhari 2791

Narrated by al-Bukhari, and from Anas (may Allah be pleased with him)

Anas told that ar-Rubaiyi‘ daughter of al-Bara’, who was the mother of Haritha b. Suraqa, came to the Prophet and said, “Prophet of God, will you not tell me about Haritha? (He had been killed at the battle of Badr, being struck by a random arrow.) If he is in paradise I shall show endurance, but if he has met another fate I shall exert myself in weeping for him.” He replied, “Mother of Haritha, in paradise there are gardens, and your son has attained to al-Firdaus, the highest.”

أن أم الربيع بنت البراء وهي أم حارثة بن سراقة أتت النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم فقالت: يا رسول الله ألا تحدثني عن حارثة وكان قتل يوم بدر فإن كان في الجنة صبرت وإن كان غير ذلك اجتهدت عليه في البكاء، فقال: يا أم حارثة إنها جنان في الجنة وإن ابنك أصاب الفردوس الأعلى

Mishkat al-Masabih 3809

Narrated by al-Bukhari, and from Jabir (may Allah be pleased with them both) who said:

The dead body of my father, who was mutilated by the enemy, was brought and placed before the Prophet (ﷺ). I got up to uncover his face but the people stopped me, and the Prophet (ﷺ) said, "The angels continue to cover him with their wings."

جيء بأبي إلى النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم قد مثل به فوضع بين يديه فذهبت أكشف عن وجهه فنهاني قوم، فقال النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم: ما زالت الملائكة تظله بأجنحتها

Riyad as-Salihin 1320

Agreed upon by al-Bukhari and Muslim, and from Sahl ibn Hanif (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Whoever asks Allah the Exalted for martyrdom with sincerity, Allah will grant him the rank of the martyrs even if he dies on his bed Narrated by Muslim".

The Shaykh : In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
These hadiths are about the virtue of the martyrs who were killed in the cause of Allah and that they have Paradise, as Allah the Exalted said: The author mentioned many hadiths in this lesson that indicate the truthfulness of the Companions (may Allah be pleased with them) and the truthfulness of their faith. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) informed them of what the martyrs have, so they threw away the food in their hands and left it, and they advanced to jihad in the cause of Allah, then they were killed and they met Allah Mighty and Majestic, pleased with them and He pleased with them (Exalted and Majestic is He). And this is undoubtedly among the virtues of the Companions (may Allah be pleased with them) in which no one after them can catch up with them. This is 'Amir ibn al-Hammam al-Ansari (may Allah be pleased with him) when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said on the day of Badr: من قاتلهم محتسبًا مقبلًا غير مدبر وجبت له الجنة التي عرضها كعرض السماء والأرض، قال: يا رسول الله جنة عرضها كعرض السماء والأرض؟ قال: نعم، فأخرج تمرات من قرنه الذي يوضع فيه الطعام عادة ويأخذه المجاهد ثم جعل يأكل ثم استطال الحياة رضي الله عنه وقال " والله لئن بقيت حتى آكل هذه التمرات إنها لحياة طويلة " ثم تقدم فقاتل وقتل رضي الله عنه وقد شهد له النبي صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم بالجنة، وكذلك أنس بن النضر رضي الله عنه لقي سعد بن معاذ في غزوة أحد وأخبره بأنه يجد ريح الجنة دون أحد، قال ابن القيم رحمه الله: " وهذه من الكرامات التي يكرم الله بها من شاء من عباده أن يجد ريح الجنة وهو في الأرض والجنة في السماء، لكن من أجل أن الله يثبت يقينه حتى يتيقنها وكأنها أمر محسوس عنده " فقاتل حتى قتل لأنه رضي الله عنه تأخر عن غزوة بدر، وسبب ذلك أن كثيرًا من الصحابة لم يخرجوا في بدر لأنهم إنما خرجوا من أجل عير أبي سفيان التي جاء بها من الشام يريد مكة ولم يخرجوا للقتال، ولكن الله جمع بينهم وبين عدوهم من غير ميعاد فتخلّف رضي الله عنه لأنهم لم يؤمروا بالخروج إلى الغزو وإنما قال الرسول عليه الصلاة والسلام من شاء أن يخرج معنا فليخرج، فخرج من خرج وتأخر من تأخر، لكنه قال رضي الله عنه حين تخلّف عن هذه الغزوة غزوة بدر: " لئن أشهدني الله مشهدًا " يعني: غزوًا في سبيل الله " ليرين الله مني ما أصنع " ثم تقدم وجاهد وجالد وقاتل حتى قتل، ووجدوا به بضعًا وثمانين أو بضعًا وتسعين ضربة في جسد واحد، مما يدل على أنه قد غامر وخاض صفوف المشركين، لم تعرفه إلا أخته ببنانه رضي الله عنه وأرضاه، وقال وهو ذاهب قال: " اللهم إني أعتذر إليك مما صنع هؤلاء " يعني: أصحابه الذين انكشفوا في غزوة أحد " وأبرأ إليك مما صنع هؤلاء " يعني المشركين، فهذه القصص وأمثالها تدل دلالة واضحة على أن الله اختار لنبيه صلى الله عليه وسلم أفضل الخلق وأنه مصداق قوله صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم: خير الناس قرني ثم الذين يلونهم ثم الذين يلونهم نسأل الله سبحانه وتعالى أن يبلغنا وإياكم منازل الشهداء وأن يجمع بيننا وبينهم في جنات النعيم. Whoever fights them seeking reward, advancing and not retreating, Paradise is obligatory for him, which is as vast as the heavens and the earth. He said: “O Messenger of Allah, is it a Paradise as vast as the heavens and the earth?” He said: “Yes.” Then he took out some dates from his quiver, which is where food is usually placed and taken by the mujahid, and began to eat. Then he longed for life, may Allah be pleased with him, and said, “By Allah, if I remain until I eat these dates, it will indeed be a long life.” Then he advanced, fought, and was killed, may Allah be pleased with him. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) had testified to him with Paradise. Likewise, Anas ibn al-Nadr, may Allah be pleased with him, met Sa'd ibn Mu'adh in the Battle of Uhud and informed him that he could smell the scent of Paradise before Uhud. Ibn al-Qayyim, may Allah have mercy on him, said: “This is among the karamah (miracles granted to a righteous person) by which Allah honors whom He wills of His servants, that they smell the scent of Paradise while on earth and Paradise is in the sky, but only so that Allah confirms their certainty until they are certain of it, as if it is a tangible matter for them.” So he fought until he was killed, because he, may Allah be pleased with him, had been absent from the Battle of Badr. The reason for this is that many of the Companions did not go out at Badr because they had only set out for the caravan of Abu Sufyan, which he had brought from Sham intending to reach Makkah, and they had not set out for fighting. But Allah brought them together with their enemy without an appointment. He, may Allah be pleased with him, was absent because they were not ordered to go out for the expedition; rather, the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “Whoever wishes to go out with us, let him go out.” So those who went out went out, and those who stayed behind stayed behind. But he, may Allah be pleased with him, said when he was absent from this expedition, the Battle of Badr: “If Allah lets me witness a scene,” meaning an expedition in the path of Allah, “He will surely see from me what I do.” Then he advanced, struggled, fought, and fought until he was killed. They found on his body some eighty or some ninety wounds, which indicates that he had taken risks and penetrated the ranks of the mushrik (one who associates partners with Allah). Only his sister recognized him by his finger, may Allah be pleased with him and grant him satisfaction. And as he was going, he said: “O Allah, I seek Your pardon for what these people did,” meaning his companions who were routed in the Battle of Uhud, “and I disavow You of what these people did,” meaning the mushrik (one who associates partners with Allah). These stories and their like clearly indicate that Allah chose for His Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) the best of creation, and that it is the truth of his saying (peace and blessings be upon him and his family): “The best of people are my generation, then those who follow them, then those who follow them.” We ask Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) to bring us and you to the stations of the martyrs and to gather us with them in the Gardens of Bliss.