631 — And al-Firyābī informed us, saying: Ishāq ibn Rāhawayh, and Abū Bakr and ‘Uthmān, the two sons of Abū Shayba, narrated to us, saying: Wakī‘ narrated to us, from Sufyān—that is, al-Thawrī—from Abū al-Zinād, from al-A‘raj, from Abū Hurayra, from the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—who said: “Allah—Glorified and Exalted—laughs at two men, one of whom kills the other, yet both enter Paradise. The first fights in the cause of Allah, is killed, and thus attains martyrdom. Allah—Glorified and Exalted—then accepts his killer’s repentance; he embraces Islam, fights in the cause of Allah, and is martyred.”