Mishkat al-Masabih #3671
Jihad
Al-Miqdam b. Ma'dikarib reported God’s Messenger as saying, “The martyr receives six1 good things from God: he is forgiven at the first shedding of his blood, he is shown his abode in paradise, he is preserved from the punishment in the grave, he is kept safe from the greatest terror2, he has placed on his head the crown of honour a ruby of which is better than the world and what it contains, he is married to seventy-two wives of the maidens with large dark eyes,3 and is made intercessor for seventy of his relatives.”
1. There seem to be seven things mentioned in this tradition.
2. Cf. Al-Qur'an; 21:103.
3. Cf. Al-Qur’an, 56:22.
Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah transmitted it.
Narrated by Al-Miqdam b. Ma'dikarib reported God’s Messenger as saying, “The martyr receives six1 good things from God:
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This hadith is #3671 from Mishkat al-Masabih, in the Book of Jihad and narrated by Al-Miqdam b. Ma'dikarib reported God’s Messenger as saying, “The martyr receives six1 good things from God:. Mishkat al-Masabih contains 4,428 hadiths across 25 books.