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."