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“The martyr has eight distinctions with Allah:
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He is forgiven with the first gush of his blood.
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He is shown his abode in Paradise.
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He is adorned with the adornment of faith.
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He is married to [seventy-two wives] from among the fair maidens of Paradise.
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He is protected from the punishment of the grave.
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He is safeguarded from the greatest terror.
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A crown of dignity is placed upon his head; one ruby from it is better than this world and all that it contains.
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He may intercede for seventy members of his household.”
Al-Tirmidhi (1663) narrated it through Baqiyyah; Ibn Majah (2799), Ahmad (4/131), al-Bayhaqi in al-Shuʿab (4/25/4254), and Ibn ʿAsakir in al-Tarikh (5/517)—the wording being that of the latter two—narrated it through Ismaʿil ibn ʿAyyash, from Buḥayr ibn Saʿd al-Kilaʿi, from Khalid ibn Maʿdan, from al-Miqdam ibn Maʿdi Karib, from the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, who said: … and he mentioned it.
Al-Tirmidhi said:
“A good, authentic hadith.”
I say: Its chain of transmission is an authentic Syrian one. Ismaʿil ibn ʿAyyash’s narrations from Syrians—and this is one of them—are authentic, contrary to that deluded person who declared his hadith concerning the sunnah of the Rightly Guided