It is recorded in al-Tabarani’s al-Kabir (23/287/632) and al-Awsat (3/29/1370—Majmaʿ al-Bahrayn) in its complete form. Al-Bayhaqi likewise narrated it in al-Sunan (4/137), by way of al-Hakim. The final statement of the hadith—“Whoever is killed defending his property is a martyr”—has numerous supporting narrations in the two Sahihs and elsewhere, in similar wordings. I have documented some of them in Ahkam al-Janaʾiz (pp. 56–57, al-Maʿarif edition) and in what follows in this series (vol. 7, no. 3247). Some of them clarify that the hadith is subject to certain conditions: for example, he should admonish the aggressor by Allah three times, in the hope that he may desist. If he does not refrain, he should seek the help of the Muslims around him; if there is no one around him, he should seek the assistance of the authorities, if possible. If the wronged person takes these measures and others like them, yet the injustice is not repelled, he may fight him. If he kills him, the latter will be in the Fire; and if he is killed, he is a martyr.

2656 — “Indeed, Allah does not look at [your bodies, nor at] your outward forms or your wealth; rather, He looks only at your hearts [and the Prophet gestured with his fingers toward his chest] and your deeds.”

Muslim (8/11), Ibn Majah (4143), Ahmad (2/539), Abu Nuʿaym in al-Hilyah (4/98), and al-Bayhaqi in al-Asmaʾ wa-al-Sifat (p. 480) narrated it through several routes from Kathir ibn Hisham: Jaʿfar ibn Burqan narrated to us from Yazid ibn al-Asamm, from Abu Hurayrah, who attributed it to the Prophet. The second addition is found in Ibn Majah, Ahmad, and al-Bayhaqi. Abu Nuʿaym said: “Al-Thawri narrated it from Jaʿfar ibn Burqan in the same manner.” I say: He then gave its connected chain (7/124), as did al-Bayhaqi, through Muhammad ibn Ghalib Tamam: