the-islamic-ruling-on-the-permissibility-of-self-sacrificial-operations-suicide-or-martyrdom

إن أول من قتل من المسلمين يومئذ شهيدا ً
رضي االله عنه يوم اليرموك
عليه وسلم بشيء ، فقال
قتل رحمه االله
فقال:‏
- يعني في معركة اليرموك-‏ رجل جاء إلى
أبي عبيدة بن الجراح
إني قد أجمعت على أمري أن أشد عليهم فهل توصوني إلى نبيكم صلى االله
تقرؤه السلام ، وتخبره أنا قد وجدنا ما وعدنا ربنا حقا ً.‏
فتقدم هذا الرجل حتى
It is narrated by Ibn ‘Asākir and Ibn Kathīr that <strong>the</strong> first Muslim to be killed on <strong>the</strong> Day of
Yarmūk, was a man who came and told Abū ‘Ubaydah ibn Al-Jarrāh رضي االله عنه , “I have
decided upon myself to exert <strong>the</strong> utmost effort against <strong>the</strong>m (until <strong>the</strong>y kill me), so do you wish for me to relay
something to your Prophet” Abū ‘Ubaydah replied, “Give to him my greetings of peace, and
inform him that we have indeed found true what our Lord had promised us.” So <strong>the</strong> man
went forth (and fought), until he was killed, may Allāh have mercy upon him. 48
So <strong>the</strong>se Ahādīth show that such actions which lead directly to death, which are done for <strong>the</strong>
benefit of <strong>the</strong> Dīn, and to raise <strong>the</strong> Word of Allāh, were something well known and
widespread amongst <strong>the</strong> Companions and <strong>the</strong>ir followers (Tābi’īn). 49
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48 Refer to Tārīkh Dimashq of Ibn ‘Asākir (67/101), and Ibn Kathīr’s Al-Bidāyah Wan-Nihāyah (7/11).
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The original research in Arabic contains 40 narrations, but for brevity we have omitted <strong>the</strong>
remainder.
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