Volume 1, Book 2, Number 35:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, “The person who participates in (Holy battles) in Allah’s cause and nothing com –
pels him to do so except belief in Allah and His Apostles, will be recompensed by Allah either with a
reward, or booty (if he survives) or will be admitted to Paradise (if he is killed in the battle as a mar –
tyr). Had I not found it difficult for my followers, then I would not remain behind any sariya going
for Jihad and I would have loved to be martyred in Allah’s cause and then made alive, and then mar –
tyred and then made alive, and then again martyred in His cause.”