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tabarani:16231 – Idrīs b. Jaʿfar al-ʿAṭṭār > ʿUthmān b. ʿUmar b. Fāris > Mālik b. Anas > al-Zuhrī > Ibn Kaʿb b. Mālik from his father

[Machine] The Prophet ﷺ said, "The souls of the believers are like birds suspended in paradise until Allah returns them to their bodies on the Day of Resurrection."  

الطبراني:١٦٢٣١ – حَدَّثَنَا إِدْرِيسُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ الْعَطَّارُ ثنا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ فَارِسٍ ثنا مَالِكُ بْنُ أَنَسٍ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ ابْنِ كَعْبِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ «أَرْوَاحُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ فِي طَيْرٍ مُعَلَّقٍ فِي الْجَنَّةِ حَتَّى يَرُدَّهَا اللهُ إِلَى أَجْسَادِهَا يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ»  

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Collected by Ibn Ḥibbān, Suyūṭī

ذِكْرُ تَكْوِينِ اللَّهِ جَلَّ وَعَلَا نَسَمَةَ الشَّهِيدِ طَائِرًا يَعْلُقُ فِي الْجَنَّةِ إِلَى أَنْ يَبْعَثَهُ اللَّهُ جَلَّ وَعَلَا

ibnhibban:4657 – Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan b. Qutaybah > Yazīd b. Mawhab > al-Layth > Ibn Shihāb > ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Kaʿb b. Mālik from his father

“The believer’s soul is a bird that eats from the trees of Paradise, until it will be returned to his body on the Day when he is resurrected.” (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 4271)   

ابن حبّان:٤٦٥٧ – أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ قُتَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ مَوْهَبٍ حَدَّثَنَا اللَّيْثُ عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ كَعْبِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ «نَسَمَةُ الْمُؤْمِنِ طَائِرٌ يَعْلُقُ فِي شَجَرِ الْجَنَّةِ حَتَّى يَرُدَّهَا اللَّهُ إِلَى جَسَدِهِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ»  

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السيوطي:٣٠٠٤a –

"أَرواحُ المؤمنين في أجواف طيرٍ خُضْرٍ تَعلَّقُ في شجرِ الجنَّةِ حتَّى يرُدَّها اللهُ إلى أجسادها يوم القيامةِ ".  

[طب] الطبرانى في الكبير عن كعب بن مالك وأم مبشر معًا