It has been narrated on the authority of Abu Sa'id Khudri that the Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) said (to him): Abu Sa'id, whoever cheerfully accepts Allaah as his Lord, Islam as his religion and Mubammad as his Prophet is necessarily entitled to enter Paradise. He (Abu Sa'id) wondered at it and said: Messenger of Allaah, repeat it for me. He (the Messenger of Allaah) did that and said: There is another act which elevates the position of a man in Paradise to a grade one hundred (higher), and the elevation between one grade and the other is equal to the height of the heaven from the earth. He (Abu Sa'id) said: What is that act? He replied: Jihad in the way of Allaah! Jihad in the way of Allaah!
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