Hadith 58

(The book) ‘Muntakhab Al Basaair’ – Sa’ad, from Ahmad and Abdullah, two sons of Muhammad Bin Isa, and Ibn Abu Al Khattab altogether from Ibn Mahboub, from Ibn Riab, from Zurara who said, ‘I disliked asking Abu Ja’far-asws regarding the Raj’at, so I cited a question I could reach my need with it, from it. I said, ‘Inform me about the one killed, is he dead? ’ He-asws said: ‘No! The death is death, and the killing is a killing’. I said, ‘There is no one who is killed, except he dies! ’
He (the narrator) said, ‘He-asws said: ‘O Zurara! Words of Allah-azwj are more truthful than your words are! He-azwj has Differentiated between the killing and the death in the Quran! He-azwj Said: so if he dies or is killed [3: 144]. And Said: And whether you die or you are killed, it is to Allah you shall be Gathered [3: 158]. So it isn’t like what you are saying, O Zurara! The death is death, and the killing is killing. And Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic has Said: Surely Allah has Bought from the Momineen their own selves and their wealth that for them would be the Paradise, fighting in the Way of Allah, so they are killing and being killed, being a binding Promise upon Him [9: 111]’. He (the narrator) said, ‘I said, ‘Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic says: Every self shall taste the death [3: 185]. Are you-asws viewing that the one who is killed, did not taste the death? ’
He-asws said: ‘The one who is killed by the sword isn’t like the one who dies upon his bed. The one who is killed, there is no escape that he returning to the word until he tastes the death! ’’[63]