The Plague Reward
The Plague Reward
98) Utba Ibn Abd As-Salami narrated that Prophet Muhammad said: Martyrs and who died of plague will come (on Doomsday). The ones who died of plague will say: We are the martyrs. Then it will be said: See if their wounds look like those of the martyrs bleeding and smelling as musk, they are (really) martyrs. They will prove so upon smelling.
(This Hadith is good and reported by Ahmad in his Musnad).
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Martyrs in the nation (Ummah) of the Prophet are not merely who die while fighting in the cause of Allah, but they also include people who die of plague, and many others.
