Al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 1942 — The virtue of jihad

Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah and Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) relate that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) delivered a sermon to us; then the narrator mentioned the complete hadith, in which there was also this prophetic saying: "Whoever guards the frontiers or wages jihad in the path of Allah Almighty, for every step (from leaving home) until his return he will be granted seven hundred million good deeds, seven hundred million of his sins will be erased, and he will be raised seven hundred million degrees. That person will be under the generous protection and guarantee of Allah Almighty; if Allah causes him to die by any kind of death, he will be admitted into Paradise, and if he returns (to his home), he will return purified of sins and as one whose supplications are answered."
According to the scholars of this science, this is a mawdu' (fabricated) report.