“The one who fights in the cause of Allah has a guarantee fromAllah. Either He will raise him to His forgiveness and mercy, or Hewill send him back with reward and spoils of war. The likeness of theone who fights in the cause of Allah is that of one who fasts andprays at night without ceasing, until he returns.”

“I heard the MessengerofAllah (ﷺ) say: ‘Whoever equips a warrior in the cause of Allahuntil he is fully equipped, he will have a reward like his, until hedies or returns.”

“Whoever dies being prepared in the cause of Allah, will begivencontinuously the reward for the good deeds that he used to do,and hewill be rewarded with provision, and he will be kept safe fromFattan,* and Allah will raise him on the Day of Resurrection free offright.”

“May Allah have mercy on the one who keeps watchover the troops.”

“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) slept near me one day,then he woke up smiling. I said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, what hasmadeyou smile?’ He said: ‘People of my nation who were shown tome (in mydream) riding across this sea like kings on thrones.’ Isaid:‘Supplicate to Allah to make me one of them.’” So heprayed for her.Then he slept again, and did likewise, and she saidthe same as shesaid before, and he replied in the same manner. Shesaid: “Pray toAllah to make me one of them,” and he said: “Youwill be one of thefirst ones.” He said: “Then she went out withher husband, ‘Ubadah binSamit, as a fighter, the first time thatthe Muslims crossed the seawith Mu’awiyah bin Abu Sufyan. On theirway back, after they hadfinished fighting, they stopped in Sham. Ananimal was brought nearfor her to ride it, but it threw her off, andshe died.”

I heard Abu Umamah saying:Iheard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: “The martyr at sea is liketwo martyrs on land, and the one who suffers seasickness is like onewho gets drenched in his own blood on land. The time spent betweenonewave and the next is like a lifetime spent in obedience to Allah.Allah has appointed the Angel of Death to seize souls, except for themartyr at sea, for Allah Himself seizes their souls. He forgives themartyrs on land for all sins except debt, but (He forgives) themartyrat sea all his sins and his debt.”

“The horizons will be opened to you, and you will conquer a citycalled Qazvin. Whoever is stationed there for forty days or fortynights, will have pillars of gold in Paradise, with green chrysoliteand topped by a dome of rubies. It will have seventy thousand doors,at each door will be a wife from among the wide-eyed houris.’”

“Goodness is tied to the forelocks of horses until the DayofResurrection.”

“The best of horses are those that are deep black,with ablaze on the forehead, white marks on the legs and white noseandupper lip, and with no whiteness on the right foreleg. If notdeep-black, then reddish-brown, with these markings.”

“I came to the Prophet(ﷺ) and said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, which Jihad is best?’ Hesaid:‘(That of a man) whose blood is shed and his horse iswounded.’”

“Going out in the morning in the cause of Allah, or in theevening,is better than the world and what is in it.”

“Whoever equips a warrior in the cause of Allah, hewill have a reward like his, without that detracting from thewarrior’s reward in the slightest.”

“Uthman bin ‘Affanaddressed the people and said: ‘O people! I heard a Hadith from theMessenger of Allah (ﷺ) and nothing kept me from narrating it to youexcept for the fact that I did not want to lose you and yourcompanionship. So it is up to you. I heard the Messenger of Allah(ﷺ) saying: “Whoever spends a night guarding the frontier in thecause of Allah, it will be like a thousand nights spent in fastingandprayer.”

I heardAnasbin Malik saying: I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say:“Standingguard one night in the cause of Allah is better than a manfastingand praying, among his family, for a thousand years. The yearisthree hundred and sixty days and a day is like a thousand years.”

“Whoever goes out in the cause of Allah will have the equivalentofthe dust that got on him, in musk, on the Day of Resurrection.”

“I was present with the Prophet (ﷺ) on the DayofUhud. I struck a man from among the idolaters and said: ‘Take that!And I am a Persian slave!’ News of that reached the Prophet (ﷺ)andhe said: ‘Why did you not say: “Take that! And I am an Ansarislave!?”

“There is goodness in the forelocks of horses” – or he said:“There is goodness tied in the forelocks of horses.” Suhail (oneofthe narrators) said: “I am not certain of” – “until theDay ofResurrection. And horses are of three types: those that bringrewardto a man, those that are a means of protection for a man, andthosethat are a burden (of sin) for a man. As for those that bringreward,a man keeps them in the cause of Allah and keeps themconstantly ready(for Jihad), so they do not take any fodder intotheir stomachs but areward will be written for him, and if he putsthem out to pasture,they do not eat anything but reward will bewritten for him. If hegives them to drink from a flowing river, forevery drop that enterstheir stomachs there will be reward,”(continuing) until he mentionedreward in conjunction with theirurine and droppings, and even whenthey run here and there bythemselves, for each step they take areward will be written for him– ‘As for those that are a means ofprotection, a man keeps thembecause they are a source of dignity andadornment, but he does notforget the rights of their backs andstomachs (i.e., their right notto be overworked and their right to befed) whether at times of theirdifficulty or ease. As for those thatbring a burden (of sin), theone who keeps them for purposes ofwrongdoing or for pomp and showbefore people, is the one for whomthey bring a burden of sin.”

“I heard ‘Abdullah bin Abu Awfa say:‘TheMessenger of Allah (ﷺ) supplicated to Allah against theConfederates (Al-Ahzab) and said: ‘O Allah, Who has sent down theBookand is Swift in bringing to account, destroy the Confederates. OAllah, destroy them and shake them.’”

“Whoever asks Allahformartyrdom, sincerely from his heart, Allah will cause him to reachthe status of the martyrs even if he dies in his bed.”

“Mention of the martyrs was madein thepresence of the Prophet (ﷺ) and he said: ‘The earth does notdryof the blood of the martyr until his two wives rush to him liketwowet nurses who lost their young ones in a stretch of barren land,andin the hand of each one of them will be a Hullah* that is betterthanthis world and everything in it.’”