811 — Al-Firyābī informed us: Uthmān ibn Abī Shayba and Hishām ibn Ammār al-Dimashqī narrated to us, saying: Ismāīl ibn Ayyāsh narrated to us: Bahīr ibn Sad narrated to us, from Khālid ibn Madān, from al-Miqdām ibn Madīkarib, from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), who said: “The martyr has nine distinctions with Allah, Mighty and Majestic: he is forgiven at the first gush of his blood; he sees his place in Paradise; he is clothed in the raiment of faith; he is wed to the wide-eyed maidens of Paradise; he is protected from the punishment of the grave; he is kept safe from the Greatest Terror; a crown of honor is placed upon his head—a single ruby in it is better than this world and all it contains; he is wed to seventy-two wives from among the wide-eyed maidens of Paradise; and he is granted intercession for seventy of his relatives.”

812 — Al-Firyābī also informed us: Uthmān ibn Abī Shayba said ⦗1244⦘: Ismāīl ibn Ayyāsh narrated to us, from Bahīr ibn Sad, from Khālid ibn Madān, from Kathīr ibn Murra, from Ubāda ibn al-Sāmit, from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), who said: “The martyr has nine distinctions with Allah, Mighty and Majestic…” He then cited the same hadith, as far as the words: “and he is granted intercession for seventy of his relatives.”