Musnad Ahmad — Hadith #45831

Qutayba bin Saeed told us, Bakr bin Mudar told us, on the authority of Ibn al-Hadi, on the authority of Muhammad bin Ibrahim, on the authority of Abu Salamah bin Abdul Rahman, On the authority of Talha bin Ubaid Allah, that two men came to the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, and all of them had converted to Islam. One of them was more diligent than his friend, so he defeated the more diligent one of them and was martyred. Then the other stayed after him for a year and then died. Talha said. So I saw, as the sleeper saw, as if I was at the gate of Paradise, when I was with them, and someone from Paradise came out, and he gave permission for the other one who had died. Then he went out and gave permission for the one who was martyred. Then they returned to me and said to me, “Go back, for the time has not come for you yet.” Talha began telling him about it. The people were astonished at that, and that reached the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, and he said: What is this that you are amazed at? They said, O Messenger of God, this. He was the most diligent, then he was martyred in the path of God, and this man entered Paradise before him. He said, “Didn’t this man stay a year after him?” They said, “Yes.” And Ramadan came, so he fasted. They said, “Yes, and he prayed such-and-such, prostrating in the Sunnah.” They said, “Yes.” The Messenger of God said, and when there was a distance between them, Heaven and earth...