"Whoever asks Allah, the mighty and Sublime, sincerely for martyrdom, Allah will cause him to reach the status of the martyrs even of he dies in his bed."
Sunan an-Nasa'i Book 25, Hadith 78
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Sunan an-Nasa'i Book 25, Hadith 79