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Is one who dies by electric shock considered a martyr, and will the large number of people praying for him intercede for him on the Day of Resurrection?

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Martyrs are seven, besides those killed in the path of Allah: the plague-stricken, the drowned, the one with pleurisy, the one with an abdominal disease, the one who dies by fire, the one who dies under a collapsed building, and the woman who dies during childbirth. And whoever dies by electric shock with burning is a martyr, unlike one who dies by shock without burning. The presence of a large number of people at the funeral and the praise of the deceased by people are good tidings, for the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "There is no deceased Muslim over whom a nation of Muslims, reaching one hundred, pray and intercede for him, except that their intercession for him is accepted," and his saying: "There is no Muslim man who dies, and forty men who do not associate anything with Allah stand over his funeral prayer, except that Allah accepts their intercession for him," and his saying: "You are Allah's witnesses on earth."

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