Is someone who died in a car accident in Ghana, where he had gone for work, considered a martyr, and does the intercession for seventy of his relatives apply to him?
Whoever dies in a car accident is hoped to be a martyr, but martyrdom cannot be definitively asserted for him due to the absence of a text that precisely defines a martyr. Some scholars have likened him to the one who dies under a collapsed structure due to the similarity of his death in severity and pain as mentioned in the texts. As for his intercession for seventy of his household, this is exclusive to the martyr of this world and the hereafter, who is killed in the path of Allah, and does not apply to others, due to the lack of equivalence, as the martyr of battle has a greater reward and more فضl (merit). Some characteristics of martyrdom include all martyrs, such as being alive with their Lord and provided for, and being protected from the trial of the grave.
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