ʿAmr ibn Murrah, from Abū ʿUbaydah, from ʿAbd Allah ibn Masʿūd, who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ, on the day of al-Ṭāʾif, declared, “Fight on! Whoever makes his arrow reach the enemy earns a rank—and know that it is not a rank belonging to anyone’s father or mother; rather, it is a rank in Paradise.”
He (al-Ṭabarānī) also mentioned the report transmitted through Saʿīd ibn Bashīr, from Qatādah, from Sālim ibn Abī al-Jaʿd, from Maʿdān ibn Abī Ṭalḥah, from ʿAmr ibn ʿAbasah, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, while laying siege to al-Ṭāʾif, said: “Whoever shoots an arrow receives the equivalent reward of emancipating a slave.” ⦗1⦘
Abū Yaʿqūb al-Qarrāb likewise recorded, through al-Aʿmash, from ʿAmr ibn Murrah, from Abū ʿUbaydah, from ʿAbd Allah ibn Masʿūd, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Whoever makes an arrow reach the enemy has a rank in Paradise.” They asked, “O Messenger of Allah, what is that rank?” He replied: