ibn Mawhab, together with his two sons—Muhammad and ʿAmr, the sons of ʿUthman—and others.
Abu Hatim al-Razi (1) said: “He was the best of Talhah’s children after Muhammad.”
I say: This Muhammad was his father’s eldest son; he was killed with him on the Day of the Camel. He was devout and noble. Next in excellence came Musa, the subject of this entry; then ʿIsa ibn Talhah (2); then Yahya ibn Talhah (3); then Yaʿqub ibn Talhah (4), one of the generous, who was killed on the Day of al-Harrah; then Zakariyya ibn Talhah (5), the grandson of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq; then Ishaq ibn Talhah (6); then ʿImran ibn Talhah (7). All of them left children and descendants.
It was said that Musa was called “al-Mahdi.”
He was declared trustworthy by Ahmad al-ʿIjli and others.
Al-Aswad ibn Shayban narrated from Khalid ibn Sumayr (8): “When the impostor al-Mukhtar emerged in Kufah, some people fled from him and came to us in Basrah, and among them was…"
(1) Jarh wa al-Tadʿil, first part of vol. 4, p. 148.
(2) His biographical entry appears on p. 367.
(3) See his biography in: Tabaqat Ibn Saʿd 5/164; Tabaqat Khalifa, nos. 1111 and 2095; Tarikh al-Bukhari 8/283; al-Maʿarif, p. 232; Jarh wa al-Tadʿil, second part of vol. 4, p. 160; Tarikh Ibn ʿAsakir 18/71 b; Tahdhib al-Kamal, p. 1503; Tadhhib al-Tahdhib 4/157 b; Tahdhib al-Tahdhib 11/233; Khulasa Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, p. 424.
(4) See his biography in: Tabaqat Ibn Saʿd 5/165; Tabaqat Khalifa, no. 1996; al-Maʿarif, p. 232; Tarikh Ibn ʿAsakir, Paris manuscript, fol. 15 a; al-ʿIbar 1/68; Shadharat al-Dhahab 2/71.
(5) The original reads “Zakariya wa Talha,” a scribal error. See his biography in Tabaqat Ibn Saʿd 5/166; al-Maʿarif, p. 233.
(6) His biographical entry will follow on p. 368.
(7) His biographical entry will follow on p. 370.
(8) He is Khalid b. Samir al-Sadusi al-Basri; al-Nasaʾi and others declared him reliable. In Tahdhib al-Tahdhib and al-Khulasa his name is miscopied with a dotted shin. See al-Ikmal wa al-Tabsir.