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Sunan ad-Darimi 2333

Abu Hurayrahnarrated it
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أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ الرِّفَاعِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا صَفْوَانُ بْنُ عِيسَى، عَنْ ابْنِ عَجْلَانَ، عَنْ الْقَعْقَاعِ بْنِ حَكِيمٍ، عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «مَا يَجِدُ الشَّهِيدُ مِنْ أَلَمِ الْقَتْلِ إِلَّا كَمَا يَجِدُ أَحَدُكُمْ مِنْ أَلَمِ الْقَرْصَةِ»

Sunan ad-Darimi 2333, Book 17, Jihad, Hadith 22. 1 min read

What it means

Explanation: When a person is martyred in the cause of Allah, what he suffers from the agony or pain of death is similar to the pain that we feel from the sting an ant. This means that the martyr does not suffer the throes and stupors of death the way other people do; rather, the greatest pain he suffers and feels at the time of his death is similar to the quick pain that we feel from the bite of an ant.

This is part of the favor of Allah, the Almighty, upon the martyr. He sacrificed his life for the sake of Allah, considering it a small price to pay, and thus Allah alleviated the pain of death from him.

From the Encyclopedia of Translated Prophetic Hadiths, hadeethenc.com.

The chain

Who passed it on, from Ad-Darimi back to the one who was there.

  1. 1Ad-DarimiCompiler, died 255 AH
  2. 2Muhammad ibn YazidInformed us, Fourth generation, died 248 AH
  3. 3Safwan ibn IsaTold us, Third generation, died 198 AH
  4. 4Muhammad ibn AjlanFrom, Successor, died 148 AH
  5. 5Al-Qaqa ibn HakimFrom, Successor, died 101 AH
  6. 6Abu Salih as-SammanFrom, Successor, died 101 AH
  7. 7Abu HurayrahFrom, Companion, died 57 AH

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