Majma al-Zawaid — Hadith 9540

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with him) says: When the servant is killed in the path of Allah, then when the first drop of his blood falls upon the earth, Allah Almighty erases all his sins. Then He sends to him a sheet from Paradise, in which his soul is taken, and a body from Paradise, until his spirit is placed into it. Then he ascends with the angels as though he had been with those angels ever since Allah Almighty created him, until he reaches the heaven. Every door he passes by is opened for him, and every angel he passes by prays for mercy and forgiveness for him, until he is brought to the Most Merciful. Then he falls in prostration before the angels, and the angels prostrate after him. Then he is forgiven and purified. Then the command is given to take him to the martyrs, and he finds those martyrs in green gardens, in domes of silk. With them are a bull and a fish, which provide those people every day with something they were not given the previous day. That fish lives in the rivers of Paradise and eats from every flavour in the rivers of Paradise. When evening comes, the bull strikes it with its horn and slaughters it. Those people eat the fish's flesh and find in its flesh the taste of everything in the rivers of Paradise. Then the bull spends the night grazing in Paradise, eating the fruits of Paradise. When morning comes, the fish comes to it and slaughters it with its tail. Those people eat the bull's flesh and find in its flesh the taste of every fruit of Paradise. They keep looking at their dwellings and pray to Allah Almighty that the Hour be established. After this the narrator mentioned the complete hadith, which has already preceded in the chapter on Funerals.
Al-Tabarani recorded it, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih, except Abd al-Rahman bin al-Baylamani, who is thiqah (trustworthy).