Abu Abdullah al-Asbahani related the authenticity of this (previous narration) just as I have mentioned earlier.

It is narrated from Isa bin Talhah that the wet nurse of Muhammad bin Talhah told me: When Muhammad bin Talhah was born, we brought him to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). He (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "What have you named him?" We said: Muhammad. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "He is my namesake, and his kunyah is Abu al-Qasim."

It is narrated from Mus'ab al-Zubayri that the mother of Muhammad bin Talhah bin Ubaydullah was Hamnah bint Jahsh (may Allah be pleased with her).

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Muhammad bin Hatib (may Allah be pleased with him) that when we had finished with the fighting of the Battle of the Camel, Sayyiduna Ali, Sayyiduna al-Hasan bin Ali, Sayyiduna Ammar bin Yasir, Sayyiduna Sa'sa'ah bin Suhan, Sayyiduna al-Ashtar and Sayyiduna Muhammad bin Abi Bakr (may Allah be pleased with them) began going around among the slain. Suddenly Sayyiduna al-Hasan bin Ali (may Allah be pleased with them both) caught sight of a slain man who had fallen on his face. He turned him over onto his back and said: "Indeed, we belong to Allah, and indeed to Him we will return" [Surah al-Baqarah: 156] . By Allah! This is the young prince of Quraysh, the light of their eyes. His father (Sayyiduna Ali, may Allah be pleased with him) asked: O my dear son, who is he? He replied: This is Muhammad bin Talhah. So Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) (also) said: "Indeed, we belong to Allah, and indeed to Him we will return" [Surah al-Baqarah: 156] . By Allah! As far as I know, he was an extremely righteous and virtuous young man. Then he sat down right there in a state of grief and sorrow.

Muhammad bin al-Dahhak bin Uthman al-Hizami narrates from his father that the inclination of Muhammad bin Talhah was with Sayyiduna Ali bin Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him), and Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) had forbidden his killing. He had said: "Whoever sees the one with the black hooded cloak (burnus), let him not kill him," meaning Muhammad bin Talhah. On that day Muhammad bin Talhah asked Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her): O mother, what do you command me? She said: I think you should be like the better of the two sons of Adam (Abel), that is, withhold your hand. So he withheld his hand. Then a man from Banu Asad bin Khuzaymah called Talhah bin Mudlij killed him. It is also said that Shaddad bin Mu'awiyah al-Absi killed him, and there is also a view that Isam bin Muqsha'irr al-Nasri killed him, and most of the reports are upon this view. He is the one who said these verses about killing him: "And many a dishevelled man, much standing in prayer with the verses of his Lord, of little harm, a Muslim in the eyes of the people: I closed in on him with the spear from beneath his garments, and he fell prostrate upon his hands and his mouth. I drove the spearhead through his shirt into him, and threw him down from the back of a branded, swift steed. In the charge of the horses I set his body straight before me, as though he were a hardy old vulture of stout build. He was reminding me of 'Ha Mim' when I pierced him, so why did he not recite 'Ha Mim' before advancing? I struck him for nothing else except that he was not a follower of Ali, and whoever does not follow the truth does wrong." The narrator said: When Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) saw him slain, he said: "His devotion to his father has brought him down to this place where he fell."

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that Sayyiduna Abu Bakr al-Siddiq (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I was the first to return to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) (on the day of Uhud), and with him was Sayyiduna Talhah bin Ubaydullah (may Allah be pleased with him). Sayyiduna Talhah (may Allah be pleased with him) had been overcome at that time, while the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was in a better state than him. So the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to us: "Attend to your companion (Talhah)." So we left him (peace and blessings be upon him) and turned to him, and we saw that the rings of his helmet had sunk into his cheeks. Between him and the east there was a man, and I was closer to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) than he was; and it turned out to be Sayyiduna Abu Ubaydah bin al-Jarrah (may Allah be pleased with him). I went forward to pull out the rings of the helmet, but Sayyiduna Abu Ubaydah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: O Abu Bakr! I adjure you by Allah to let me do this. So I left him, and he pulled it out (with his teeth), and one of his front teeth came out. Then I went forward to pull out the other ring, and Sayyiduna Abu Ubaydah (may Allah be pleased with him) said the same again. He pulled out the other ring as well, and his other front tooth also came out. Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Indeed, your companion (Talhah) has made (Paradise) obligatory for himself," or "Talhah has made it obligatory (awjaba)." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Muslim, and the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Isa bin Talhah bin Ubaydullah: I went in to the Mother of the Believers, Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her), and Aishah bint Talhah. At that time Aishah bint Talhah was saying to her mother, Sayyidah Asma (may Allah be pleased with her): I am better than you, and my father is better than your father. The narrator said: Her mother began scolding her and saying: You are better than me?! Then the Mother of the Believers, Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her), said: Shall I not judge between you two? She said: Of course. So Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: Sayyiduna Abu Bakr al-Siddiq (may Allah be pleased with him) came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "O Abu Bakr! You are one freed by Allah from the Fire ('atiqullah min al-nar)." Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: From that day he came to be named "Atiq," whereas before that he had not been named Atiq. Then Sayyidah Aishah said: Then Sayyiduna Talhah bin Ubaydullah (may Allah be pleased with him) came in, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "O Talhah! You are among those who have fulfilled their vow (mimman qada nahbah)." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Muslim, and the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever wishes to look at a martyr walking on the face of the earth, let him look at Talhah bin Ubaydullah." Al-Salt bin Dinar is alone in narrating this hadith, and it is not on the condition of this book.

It is narrated from Abu Habibah, the freed slave of Sayyiduna Talhah (may Allah be pleased with him): After the Battle of the Camel was over, I went with Sayyiduna Imran bin Talhah (may Allah be pleased with him) to Sayyiduna Ali bin Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him). The narrator said: Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) welcomed him and seated him near himself, then said: I hope that Allah will place me and your father among those about whom Allah Almighty has said: "And We shall remove whatever rancour is in their breasts; brothers, on thrones facing one another" [Surah al-Hijr: 47] . Then Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) asked: O my nephew! How is so-and-so, and how is so-and-so (among the women)? He also asked about his father's umm walads. Then he said: We held these lands of yours in our possession during these years only out of fear that people would plunder them. O so-and-so! Go with him to Ibn Qarazah and command him to hand over to him all the produce of these lands for these years, and the lands as well. At this, two men who were sitting in a corner, one of whom was al-Harith al-A'war, said: Allah is far more just than that. Shall we kill them and they be our brothers in Paradise? Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said angrily: Get up, both of you, and go to the farthest and most ruinous place in Allah's earth! If I and Talhah are not (the ones meant by this verse), then who is? (Then he said to Imran bin Talhah:) O my nephew! Whenever you have any need, come to us. The chain of this hadith is sahih (authentic), and the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Talhah bin Ubaydullah (may Allah be pleased with him) that Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) proposed marriage to Umm Aban bint Utbah bin Rabi'ah bin Abd Shams, but she refused. She was asked why she had done so. She said: "When he enters the house, he enters with worry (about the Hereafter), and when he goes out, he goes out in the same worry. The matter of his Hereafter has made him indifferent to the affairs of this world; it is as though he is looking at his Lord with his own eyes." Then Sayyiduna al-Zubayr bin al-Awwam (may Allah be pleased with him) proposed to her, and she refused. She was asked why. She said: "His wife gets nothing from him except that he adorns her hair with ornamental braids (that is, he is stern and dry in temperament)." Then Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) proposed, and she refused. She was asked why. She said: "His wife gets nothing from him except the fulfilment of his own need, and he just keeps talking of such-and-such happening and so-and-so happening (that is, he is absorbed in political and scholarly affairs)." Then Sayyiduna Talhah (may Allah be pleased with him) proposed to her, and she said: "He is my true husband." People asked: How is that? She said: "I know his character. When he enters the house he enters laughing, and when he goes out he goes out smiling. If I ask for something he gives, and if I remain silent he takes the initiative himself. If I do a good deed he thanks me, and if I commit a fault he forgives." Then, when Sayyiduna Talhah (may Allah be pleased with him) had married her, Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said to him: "O Abu Muhammad! Will you permit me to speak to Umm Aban?" He said: "Certainly, speak to her." Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) took hold of the curtain of the canopy and said: 'Al-salamu alaykum ya azizata nafsiha' "Peace be upon you, O you who hold yourself dear!" She said: "And upon you be peace." He (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "The Commander of the Believers and the leader of the Muslims proposed to you, and you refused him." She said: "Yes, that is how it happened." He (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "The cousin of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), the son of his paternal aunt, and his disciple (al-Zubayr) proposed to you, and you refused." She said: "Yes." He (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "I proposed to you, along with my kinship to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and you refused." She said: "That is how it happened." He (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "By Allah! You have married the one among us all with the most handsome face and the most generous, who gives like this and like this (with both hands)."