“When Ka’b was dying, Umm Bishr bint Bara’ bin Ma’rur came to him and said: ‘O Abu ‘Abdur-Rahman! If you meet so-and-so, convey Salam to him from me.’ He said: ‘May Allah forgive you, O Umm Bishr! We are too busy to think of that.’ She said: ‘O Abu ‘Abdur-Rahman! Did you not hear the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: “The souls of the believers are in green birds, eating from the trees of Paradise”?’ He said: ‘Yes.’ She said: ‘That is what I mean.’” (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 1449)  

يَا أَبَا عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ إِنْ لَقِيتَ ابْنِي فَأَقْرئْهُ مِنَّي السَّلَامَ قَالَ يَغْفِرُ اللهُ لَكِ يَا أُمَّ بِشْرٍ نُحْنُ أَسْفَلُ مِنْ ذَلِكَ فَقَالَتْ يَا أَبَا عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ أَمَا سَمِعْتَ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ «إِنَّ أَرْوَاحَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ فِي أَجْوَافِ طَيْرٍ خُضْرٍ تَعَلَّقُ بِشَجَرِ الْجَنَّةِ» ؟ قَالَ بَلَى قَالَتْ فَهُوَ ذَاكَ  

[Machine] "O Abu Abdullah, if you meet my son, convey my greetings to him." So he (Abdullah Ibn Abbas) said, "May Allah forgive you, O mother of Basheer, we are preoccupied with other matters." So Aba Abdullah said, "Did you not hear the Messenger of Allah ﷺ saying, 'Verily, the souls of the believers are mounted on birds that are attached to the trees of Paradise?'" He (Ibn Abbas) said, "Yes." She (the mother of Basheer) said, "Indeed, it is as you have mentioned."  

يَا أَبَا عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ إِنْ لَقِيتَ ابْنِي فَأَقْرِئْهُ مِنِّي السَّلَامَ فَقَالَ يَغْفِرُ اللهُ لَكِ يَا أُمَّ بِشْرٍ نَحْنُ أَشْغَلُ مِنْ ذَلِكَ فَقَالَتْ أَبَا عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ أَمَا سَمِعْتَ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ «إِنَّ أَرْوَاحِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ فِي أَجْوَافِ طَيْرٍ تَعْلُقُ بِشَجَرِ الْجَنَّةِ» قَالَ بَلَى قَالَتْ فَهُوَ كَذَلِكَ