Allah's statement:
وَلاَ تَقُولُواْ لِمَنْ يُقْتَلُ فِي سَبيلِ اللّهِ أَمْوَاتٌ بَلْ أَحْيَاء وَلَكِن لاَّ تَشْعُرُونَ
{And say not of those who are killed in the way of Allah, "They are dead." Nay, they are living,} indicates that the martyrs are alive and receiving their sustenance.
Muslim reported in his Sahih:
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((The souls of the martyrs are inside green birds and move about in Paradise wherever they wish. Then, they take refuge in lamps that are hanging under the Throne (of Allah). Your Lord looked at them and asked them, "What do you wish for?" They said, "What more could we wish for while You have favored s with what You have not favored any other of Your creation?" He repeated the question again. When they realize that they will be asked (until they answer), they said, " We wish that You send us back to the earthly life, so that we fight in Your cause until we are killed in Your cause again," (because of what they enjoy of the rewards of martyrdom). The Lord then said, " I have written that they will not returned to it (earthly life) again.)) [1]
Imam Ahmad reported that 'Abdur-Rahman bin Ka'b bin Malik narrated from his father that Allah's Messenger (sallAllahu 'alayhi wa sallam) said:
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((The believer's soul is a bird that feeds on the trees of Paradise until Allah sends it back to its body when the person is resurrected.)) [2]
This Hadith includes all the believers in its general meaning. Thus, the fact that the Qur'an mentions the martyrs in particular in the above Ayah serves to honor, glorify and favor them (although the other believers share the rewards they enjoy).
[Extracted without the Arabic texts of the two mentioned hadeeths from "Tafsir Ibn Kathir (Abridged)", abridged by a group of scholars under the supervision of Shaykh Safiur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri.]
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Footnotes:
[1] Muslim 3 : 1502.
[2] Ahmad 3 : 455
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