Shahidlar (shuhadolar) uch turga bo‘linadi: oxirat shahidi, lekin dunyo qoidalari bo‘yicha emas; faqat dunyo shahidi; va dunyo hamda oxirat shahidi. Faqat oxirat shahidi bo‘lib, dunyo shahidi bo‘lmaganlar haqida hadislarda zikr qilingan. Ba’zi rivoyatlarda ular yetti, ba’zilarida sakkiz, ba’zilarida to‘qqiz, ba’zilarida esa o‘n bir deyilgan. Muslim rivoyat qilgan, ishonchli bo‘lgan qarash bo‘yicha ular beshtadir: (al-mat’un) — ya’ni vabo, ya’ni mashhur yuqumli kasallikdan vafot etgan kishi; (mabtun) — ichburug‘ bilan vafot etgan kishi; suvda cho‘kib vafot etgan kishi; (al-hadm) — ya’ni qulagan bino ostida qolib vafot etgan kishi; va jang maydonidan tashqarida Allohning kalimasini yuksaltirish yo‘lida vafot etgan kishi. Muslim Abu Hurayra (roziyallohu anhu)dan rivoyat qiladi: Allohning Elchisi ﷺ aytdilar:

Martyrs (shuhadaa) are of three types; the shaheed of the Akhirah but not by the rules of the world; the shaheed of the world only and the shaheed of the world and Akhirah. As for the shaheed of the Akhirah only and not of this world, they are mentioned in the ahadith. In some narrations they are seven, in some eight, in some nine and in some eleven. The authentic (position) as what came in Muslim is that they are five who are: (al-mat’un) who is the one who dies in the plague i.e. the famous pestilence, the (mabtun) who is the one with diarrhoea, the drowned person who dies because of water, the one who dies of (al-hadm) i.e. the collapsed building, and the one who dies in the way of raising the word of Allah outside the battlefield. Muslim narrated from Abu Hurayra (ra) that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said: