"Allaah will put in Paradise any Muslim for whom four have testified to his goodness."

‏حدثنا ‏ ‏عبد الله بن يزيد ‏ ‏حدثنا ‏ ‏داود يعني ابن أبي الفرات ‏ ‏حدثني ‏ ‏عبد الله بن بريدة ‏ ‏عن ‏ ‏أبي الأسود الديلي ‏ ‏قال ‏ ‏أتيت ‏ ‏المدينة ‏ ‏وقد وقع بها مرض فهم يموتون موتا ذريعا فجلست إلى ‏ ‏عمر بن الخطاب ‏ ‏رضي الله عنه ‏ ‏فمرت به جنازة فأثني على صاحبها خير فقال ‏ ‏عمر ‏ ‏رضي الله عنه ‏ ‏وجبت ثم مر بأخرى فأثني على صاحبها خير فقال وجبت ثم مر بالثالثة فأثني على صاحبها شر فقال ‏ ‏عمر ‏ ‏رضي الله عنه ‏ ‏وجبت فقلت وما وجبت يا أمير المؤمنين قال قلت كما قال رسول الله ‏ ‏صلى الله عليه وسلم ‏ ‏أيما مسلم شهد له أربعة بخير أدخله الله الجنة قال قلنا أو ثلاثة قال أو ثلاثة فقلنا أو اثنان قال أو اثنان ثم لم نسأله عن الواحد ‏

 Abul-Aswad narrated that he came to Madeenah during the time of an epidemic and he sat next to ‘Umar ibn al-Khattaab. When a bier passed by, the people praised the person and ‘Umar said, “It has been affirmed.” Another bier passed by and the people praised the person and again ‘Umar said, “It has been affirmed.” When a third bier passed by, the people spoke badly of the deceased and ‘Umar said, “It has been affirmed.” Abul-Aswad asked him what was affirmed and he replied, “I said what the Prophet (saws) said: “Allaah will put in Paradise any Muslim for whom four have testified to his goodness.” We asked, even if three? He replied, even if three. We asked, even if two [testify to his goodness]? He replied, even if two. Then we did not ask about one person.

[Sahih Al-Bukhari, vol.2, pp. 253-54, no. 449, Mishkat Al-Masabih, vol.1, p350.]

(حديث قدسي) حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عُمَرَ الْوَكِيعِيُّ ، قَالَ : حَدَّثَنَا مُؤَمَّلُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ ، قَالَ : حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ ، عَنْ ثَابِتٍ ، عَنْ أَنَسٍ ، قَالَ : قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ : ” مَا مِنْ مُسْلِمٍ يَمُوتُ ، فَيَشْهَدُ لَهُ أَرْبَعَةُ أَهْلِ أَبْيَاتٍ مِنْ جِيرَانِهِ الأَدْنَيْنَ أَنَّهُمْ لا يَعْلَمُونَ إِلا خَيْرًا ، إِلا قَالَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ : قَدْ قَبِلْتُ عِلْمَكُمْ فِيهِ ، وَغَفَرْتُ لَهُ مَا لا تَعْلَمُونَ ” . 

Anas quoted the Prophet (saws) as saying, “For any Muslim who dies and four of his close neighbours testify that they have known him to be good, Allaah-the Blessed, the Highest- will say, ‘I have accepted your testimony and forgiven him for what you do not know about.’

[Collected by Ahmad and authenticated in Ahkaamul-Janaa'iz, pp. 45-46]

(page 54. Bilal Philips – Funeral Rites in Islam)

“O Allah take my soul without me feeling any pain”

Abu Hurairah (ra) narrated: The Messenger of Allah (sal Allah alayhi wasalam) said: “The Shaheed feels nothing from the agony of death except like one of you would feel from a sting of an insect.” 301 [Tirmithi, al Nasa’i, Ibn Majah, al Bayhaqi, Ahmad and al Darimi]

In Majmoo’ al Lata’if it mentions that a man said:

 “O Allah take my soul without me feeling any pain”

One day while he was walking in a farm he felt tired so he lay down to sleep.

Some nonbelievers approached him and cut off his head.

One of his friends saw him in a dream and asked him about himself.

He said: “I slept in a farm and when I opened my eyes, I was in Paradise!”

[Abdullah] Ibn al Mubarak mentions a similar story about two Muslim prisoners of war. They were threatened by the leader of the nonbelievers to give up their religion. When they refused he threw them in a container that had oil boiling for three consecutive days. Due to the extreme heat of the oil, shortly after they were thrown in it their bones stuck out from the surface.

 

Later on their brother saw them in a dream and asked them about their condition. They said: 

“It was only that first dip into the boiling oil and then we went straight to al Firdaws!( the highest level of Paradise)”

Mashari al Ushwaq. p88

"No! One at a time! One at a time!" [Funny]

Shaikh Muhammad al-Arifi’ says;

He (a poor man) went on making tawaaf around the Ka’aba saying “Oh Allah forgive us and tajaawaz anna (??)” And so the poor man was supplicating. [Eventually] He became very hot and had a heat stroke and collapsed on the ground.

So they (people) picked him up and took him to the Ajyaad Hospital, opposite the Haram. They put him in the hospital – cool was the place with a white bed and bed cover and cool moist air was blown onto him.

After 4-5 hours, he awoke. Upon waking up, he turned right and left only to find the room all white. He looked to the bed cover, mattress and bed only to find that they [too] where white. The poor man smelt the smell [in the room] – and of course it was the smell of dettol – but it was better than his smell, and the smell pleased him.

So he assumed that he was in Jannah! (Paradise) [To which] he exclaimed: “Allahu Akbar! Ash-hadu anna wa’ad Allahi hakun! Al JANNAH! Al Jannah! (Allah is the greatest! I bear witness that Allah’s promise is true! Al Jannah! Al Jannah!”)”

He then turned to his right and found 5 Filippino nurses [standing there]. When he saw them wearing all white, he said: “Allahu Akbar! Al hoor al ayn! Al hoor al ayn! Al hoor al ayn!” [the women of Paradise]

The nurses didn’t understand what this man was saying. So they assumed that he was crazy. [This man then] tried to get out of his bed, he took the bed cover [off him] and threw it down, to get to the “Hoor Al Ayn”
The nurses rushed towards him to hold him. So he told them, “No, one by one, one by one!” So the poor man thought he was [in Jannah/Paradise] with the Hoor Al Ayn!

See Sheikh Mohammad Al Arifi narrating the Event in Arabic;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9tYDFkcXoU&feature=player_embedded