Ibn Masud reported that the eighteen companions of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ who were killed on the day of Badr had their souls placed by Allah in green birds roaming in Paradise. While they were in that state, their Lord looked down upon them and said, "My servants, what do you desire?"They replied, "Our Lord, is there anything beyond this?"He said again, "My servants, what do you desire?"On the fourth time, they said, "That our souls be returned to our bodies so we may be killed again as we were killed before."
أن ابن مسعود حدثه أن الثمانية عشر الذين قتلوا من أصحاب رسول الله ﷺ يوم بدر جعل الله أرواحهم في الجنة في طير خضر تسرح في الجنة، فبينما هم كذلك إذ طلع عليهم ربك اطلاعة فقال: يا عبادي! ما تشتهون؟ فقالوا: يا ربنا هل فوق هذا شيء؟ قال: فيقول: عبادي ماذا تشتهون؟ فيقولون في الرابعة: ترد أرواحنا في أجسادنا فنقتل كما قتلنا.
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Tabarani narrated it in Al-Kabir (10/249), and Ibn Abu Asim in Al-Jihad (198), both from the hadith of Muhammad bin Ali bin Hasan bin Shaqiq, who said, my father narrated to us, and Husayn bin Waqid narrated to us, from Amash, from Shaqiq, from Ibn Masud, and he related it. The wording given is that of Tabarani, while the wording of Ibn Abu Asim is abridged. Its chain of transmission is hasan on account of Husayn bin Waqid. Haythami said in Al-Majmu (6/90), "Tabarani narrated it, and its narrators are trustworthy."