Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 20625 — What is mentioned on the virtue

Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that once the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "Whom do you consider a martyr?" The people said: "The one who is killed in the path of Allah." He said: "In that case the martyrs of my Ummah will be very few. The one who gives his life in the path of Allah is a martyr; the one who falls from his mount and dies in the path of Allah is a martyr; the one who drowns in the path of Allah is a martyr; the one who is struck by plague in the path of Allah is a martyr; the one who dies of a disease of the belly in the path of Allah is a martyr; and the one who dies of pleurisy (an ulcer of the side) in the path of Allah is a martyr."