Al-Nasaʾi likewise recorded—through the chain of Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb and another narrator, from ʿUmārah ibn Ghaziyyah, from Abū al-Zubayr, from Jābir—who said:

When the Day of Uhud arrived and the people turned away, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was off to one side with twelve men, among them Ṭalḥah. The idolaters caught up with them.

The Prophet ﷺ asked, “Who will stand against these people?”

Ṭalḥah replied, “I will.”

He said, “Stay where you are.”

Another man said, “I will.”

He answered, “You (go).” The man fought until he was killed. Then the Prophet looked back and there were still the idolaters.¹

He said, “Who will face them?”

Ṭalḥah said, “I will.”

He replied, “Stay where you are.”

A man from the Anṣār said, “I will.”

He said, “You (go).” He fought until he was killed. The matter continued thus until only the Prophet of Allah ﷺ and Ṭalḥah remained.

He asked, “Who will confront them?”

Ṭalḥah said, “I will.”

Ṭalḥah then fought with the valor of eleven men until his fingers were severed. He cried out, “Ḥiss!” (an exclamation of pain).

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Had you said, ‘In the name of Allah,’ the angels would have lifted you up while the people looked on.”

Then Allah repelled the idolaters.²

Its transmitters are reliable.

Abū al-Maʿālī ibn Abī ʿAsrūn al-Shāfiʿī informed us; ʿAbd al-Muʿizz ibn Muḥammad, in his book, informed us; Tamīm ibn Abī Saʿīd informed us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān informed us; Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad informed us; Aḥmad³ ibn ʿAlī al-Tamīmī informed us; Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Muqaddamī and ʿAbd al-Aʿlā narrated to us, saying:

Al-Muʿtamir narrated to us; I heard my father, who narrated to us from Abū ʿUthmān—