Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 1613
حَدَّثَنَا جَمِيلُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْمُنْذِرِ الْهُذَيْلُ بْنُ الْحَكَمِ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ أَبِي رَوَّادٍ، عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ " مَوْتُ غُرْبَةٍ شَهَادَةٌ " .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Jamil ibn al-Hasan narrated to us: He said: Abu al-Mundhir Hudhayl ibn al-Hakam narrated to us: Abd al-Aziz ibn Abi Rawwad narrated to us, from Ikrimah, from Ibn Abbas, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘Dying as a stranger is martyrdom.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
‘مَوْتُ غُرْبَةٍ’ is rendered as dying as a stranger, preserving the compact wording without narrowing it to a particular kind of travel or exile.