Is my mother, who drowned in a well about twenty years ago and was a righteous woman, considered among the martyrs?
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The drowned person is a martyr, according to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, who said: "The martyrs are five: the one who dies of plague, the one who dies of a stomach ailment, the one who drowns, the one who dies under a collapsing building, and the one martyred in the way of Allah."
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