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صحیح الجامع الصغیر
Sahih al-Jami al-Saghir
حرف الألف
The Letter Alif (أ)
الأحاديث المبدوءة بحرف الألف
Hadith Beginning with the Letter Alif (أ)
Sahih al-Jami al-Saghir 2096 — If that were so (that is, if only those)
«إن شهداء أمتي إذن لقليل القتل في سبيل الله شهادة والمطعون شهادة والمرأة تموت بجمع شهادة والغرق والحرق والمجنوب شهادة»
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
"If that were so (that is, if only those who die on the battlefield were martyrs), then the martyrs of my Ummah would be very few! Being killed in the path of Allah is martyrdom, dying of the plague is martyrdom, the woman who dies while pregnant (or in childbirth) dies a martyr, and the death of one who dies by drowning, by burning, or from al-majnub (pleurisy) is also martyrdom."
"If that were so (that is, if only those who die on the battlefield were martyrs), then the martyrs of my Ummah would be very few! Being killed in the path of Allah is martyrdom, dying of the plague is martyrdom, the woman who dies while pregnant (or in childbirth) dies a martyr, and the death of one who dies by drowning, by burning, or from al-majnub (pleurisy) is also martyrdom."
