In this chapter, there is also a narration from ʿUthmān and Abū Rayḥānah.

The ḥadīth of Ibn ʿAbbās is a ḥasan gharīb ḥadīth; we do not know it except from the narration of Shuʿayb ibn Ruzayq.

13 – Chapter: What has been reported concerning the reward of the martyr

1735 – Ibn Abī ʿUmar narrated to us, Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah narrated to us, from ʿAmr ibn Dīnār, from al-Zuhrī, from Ibn Kaʿb ibn Mālik, from his father, that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "Indeed, the souls of the martyrs are in green birds, hanging from the fruits of Paradise, or the trees of Paradise."

This is a ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ ḥadīth.

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= Supporting it is the ḥadīth of Abū Hurayrah in Aḥmad (10560), with the wording: "No one who weeps out of fear of Allah will enter the Fire until the milk returns to the udder, and no dust in the path of Allah and the smoke of Hell will ever gather in the nostrils of a man." Its chain is ṣaḥīḥ.

And the ḥadīth of Abū Rayḥānah in Aḥmad (17213); see the rest of its supporting witnesses in "al-Musnad" under the ḥadīth of Abū Rayḥānah (17213) and the ḥadīth of Abū Hurayrah (7480) and (10560).

(1) Its chain is ṣaḥīḥ, except that Ibn ʿUyaynah was unique in this wording "the martyrs," while the trustworthy narrators other than him narrated it with the wording "the Muslim" or "the believer." This is in "al-Musnad" (27166). Al-Ḥumaydī (873) narrated it from Sufyān, from ʿAmr ibn Dīnār, with the wording "Indeed, the soul of the believer." It was also transmitted with the wording "the believer" or "the soul of the believer" by Ibn Mājah (1449) and (4271), al-Nasāʾī 4/108, and it is in "Musnad Aḥmad" (15776), and Ibn Ḥibbān declared it ṣaḥīḥ (4657). See necessarily what we have commented upon it.