What counts as martyrs
بَابُ مَا يُعَدُّ مِنَ الشُّهَدَاءِ
Sunan ad-Darimi, Book of Religious Battles(view book)
Yazīd b. Hārūn > Sulaymān > al-Taymī > Abū ʿUthmān > ʿĀmir b. Mālik > Ṣafwān b. Umayyah
From the Prophet ﷺ , he said, "The plague is a martyrdom, drowning is a martyrdom, participating in a battle is a martyrdom, and childbirth and what a woman faces during childbirth are also martyrdom." – Fair Chain
أَخْبَرَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ هَارُونَ أَنْبَأَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ هُوَ التَّيْمِيُّ عَنْ أَبِي عُثْمَانَ عَنْ عَامِرِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ بْنِ أُمَيَّةَ
عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ «الطَّاعُونُ شَهَادَةٌ وَالْغَرَقُ شَهَادَةٌ وَالْغَزْوُ شَهَادَةٌ وَالْبَطْنُ وَالنُّفَسَاءُ» – إسناده جيد
Classification
ʿUbaydullāh b. Mūsá > Isrāʾīl > Manṣūr > Abū Bakr b. Ḥafṣ > Shuraḥbīl b. al-Simṭ > ʿUbādah b. al-Ṣāmit
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Being killed in the way of Allah is martyrdom, and dying due to a widespread disease is martyrdom, and death due to a stomach disease is martyrdom, and a woman being killed by her child is also martyrdom." – Sound Chain
أَخْبَرَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مُوسَى عَنْ إِسْرَائِيلَ عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ عَنْ أَبِي بَكْرِ بْنِ حَفْصٍ عَنْ شُرَحْبِيلَ بْنِ السِّمْطِ عَنْ عُبَادَةَ بْنِ الصَّامِتِ قَالَ
قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «الْقَتْلُ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ شَهَادَةٌ وَالطَّاعُونُ شَهَادَةٌ وَالْبَطْنُ شَهَادَةٌ وَالْمَرْأَةُ يَقْتُلُهَا وَلَدُهَا جُمْعًا شَهَادَةٌ» – إسناده صحيح