Volume 4, Book 52, Number 53:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
The Prophet said, “Nobody who dies and finds good from Allah (in the Hereafter) would wish to
come back to this world even if he were given the whole world and whatever is in it, except the
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martyr who, on seeing the superiority of martyrdom, would like to come back to the world and get
killed again (in Allah’s Cause).”
Narrated Anas: The Prophet said, “A single endeavor (of fighting) in Allah’s Cause in the afternoon
or in the forenoon is better than all the world and whatever is in it. A place in Paradise as small as
the bow or lash of one of you is better than all the world and whatever is in it. And if a houri from
Paradise appeared to the people of the earth, she would fill the space between Heaven and the Earth
with light and pleasant scent and her head cover is better than the world and whatever is in it.”