Narrator:Jābir ibn ‘Abdullāh
وَعَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ: لَقِيَنِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَقَالَ: «يَا جَابِرُ مَا لي أَرَاك منكسراً» قلت يَا رَسُول الله اسْتشْهد أبي قتل يَوْم أحد وَتَرَكَ عِيَالًا وَدَيْنًا قَالَ أَفَلَا أُبَشِّرُكَ بِمَا لَقِي الله بِهِ أَبَاك قَالَ قُلْتُ بَلَى يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ قَالَ مَا كَلَّمَ اللَّهُ أَحَدًا قَطُّ إِلَّا مِنْ وَرَاءِ حجاب وَأَحْيَا أَبَاك فَكَلمهُ كفاحا فَقَالَ يَا عَبْدِي تَمَنَّ عَلَيَّ أُعْطِكَ قَالَ يَا رَبِّ تُحْيِينِي فَأُقْتَلُ فِيكَ ثَانِيَةً قَالَ الرَّبُّ عز وَجل إِنَّه قد سبق مني أَنهم إِلَيْهَا لَا يرجعُونَ قَالَ وأنزلت هَذِهِ الْآيَةِ [وَلَا تَحْسَبَنَّ الَّذِينَ قُتِلُوا فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ أَمْوَاتًا] الْآيَة. رَوَاهُ التِّرْمِذِيّ
Jabir said:
God's messenger met me and said, "How is it, Jabir, that I see you downcast?" I replied, "My father has died a martyr, leaving children and a debt." He asked, "Shall I not give you good news of what God has caused your father to meet?" and when I replied, "Certainly, messenger of God," he said, "God has never spoken to anyone but from behind a veil, but He brought your father to life and spoke to him face to face saying, `My servant, if you express a wish to Me, I shall grant it.' He replied, `0 my Lord, my wish is that Thou shouldest grant me life and let me be killed for Thy sake a second time but the Lord who is blessed and exalted said, `I have already said that they will not return'." Then came down, "You must not consider those who have been killed in God's path to be dead...[*]" *Quran; 3:169 Tirmidhi transmitted it.
Reported by At-Tirmidhi (No. 3010) and Ibn Majah (No. 190, 2800). Cited in Mishkat al-Masabih (No. 6246).