until he died. (1)

This report was narrated by a number of transmitters from him, and the wording preserved in the version of ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Ṣāliḥ is: “This man assisted against ʿUthmān, and after today I will seek no further revenge.” (2)

I say: The one who killed Talḥa bears a burden of sin equal to that of the one who killed ʿAlī.

Khalīfa ibn Khayyāṭ said: “Someone who heard Juwayriyya ibn Asmāʾ related to us, from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd, from his uncle, that Marwān shot Talḥa with an arrow and killed him. Then he turned to Abān and said, ‘We have spared you the trouble of some of your father’s killers.’ (3)”

Hushaym narrates, from Mujālid, from al-Shaʿbī, who said:

ʿAlī saw Talḥa lying in a valley; he dismounted, wiped the dust from his face, and said, “It is grievous for me, Abū Muḥammad, to see you lying slain in the ravines beneath the stars of the sky. To Allah I complain of my hidden and outward pains.”

al-Aṣmaʿī explained: “Its meaning is: the secrets and sorrows that surge within my breast.”

ʿAbd Allāh ibn Idrīs narrates, from Layth, from Talḥa ibn Muṣarrif:

When ʿAlī reached Talḥa after he had died, he dismounted, sat him up, and wiped the dust from his face and beard,