hundred thousand dirhams, and his cash holdings and real estate were valued at thirty million dirhams (1).

The most remarkable statement I have encountered is Ibn al-Jawzi’s comment, in the course of discussing a hadith, where he said: “Talhah left behind three hundred camel-loads of gold.”

Saʿīd ibn ʿĀmir al-Ḍubaʿī narrated from al-Muthannā ibn Saʿīd:
“A man came to ʿĀʾishah bint Talhah and said, ‘I saw Talhah in a dream, and he told me, “Tell ʿĀʾishah to move me from this place, for the moisture is harming me.”’

So she mounted with her attendants, had a structure built over him, and had him exhumed. Nothing of him had changed except a few hairs on one side of his beard—or, he said, on his head—even though thirty-odd years had passed between the two occasions.

Al-Masʿūdī related that it was his daughter ʿĀʾishah herself who saw the dream.

He was killed in the year 36 AH, in Jumada al-Akhira. Others say it was in Rajab, when he was sixty-two years old, or thereabouts, and his grave lies on the outskirts of Basra (2).

Yahya ibn Bukayr, Khalifah ibn Khayyat, and Abu Nasr al-Kalabadhi said: “The one who killed Talhah was Marwan ibn al-Hakam.”

Talhah had several distinguished children, the most eminent of whom was Muhammad al-Sajjad. He was a young man, righteous, devout, and constantly worshipping Allah. Born during the Prophet’s ﷺ lifetime, he too was killed on the Day of the Camel. ʿAlī grieved over him and said, “His filial devotion to his father is what brought about his downfall.”