Not Committing Shirk Guarantees Paradise
It has been related from Hazrat Abu Ayub Ansari (ra) that he left to take part in Jihad during the rule of Amir Muawiyah. He states, “I became severally ill and told my fellow companions that if I passed away, they should carry me until they were stood in their rows to fight the enemy and bury me in the ground below them. ‘I shall share a hadith with you which I heard from the Messenger (sa) of Allah. If my demise was not imminent, I would never have related it. I heard the Messenger (sa) of Allah say, ‘Whoever dies in a state whereby they never committed any shirk [associating partners with Allah] shall enter paradise.’”