“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