ʿAbd al-Malik (1) ibn Abjar said, “I never saw Ṭalḥah ibn Muṣarrif in any gathering without perceiving him to be superior to everyone present.”

al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAmr reported: “Ṭalḥah ibn Muṣarrif said to me, ‘Were I not in a state of wuḍūʾ, I would tell you what the Rāfiḍah say.’”

Fudayl ibn Ghazwān related: “Someone said to Ṭalḥah ibn Muṣarrif, ‘If you were to buy grain, you would make a profit.’ He replied, ‘I dislike for Allah to find any rancor in my heart toward the Muslims.’”

Fudayl ibn ʿIyād said: “It reached me that Ṭalḥah laughed one day. He immediately rebuked himself, asking, ‘Why do you laugh? Only someone who has passed the terrors and crossed the Bridge may laugh.’ Then he vowed, ‘I swear I will not show my teeth in laughter until I know how the Final Event will turn out for me.’ After that he was never seen laughing until he met Allah.”

Ibn ʿUyaynah narrated from Abū Janāb: “I heard Ṭalḥah ibn Muṣarrif say, ‘I was present at al-Jamājim (2). I was neither shot, nor pierced, nor struck, yet I would have preferred that this had fallen right here and that I had never been there.’”

Layth ibn Abī Sulaym said: “While he was ill, I told Ṭalḥah ibn Muṣarrif that Ṭāwūs disapproved of groaning. After that no one heard Ṭalḥah utter a groan until he died.”

Shuʿbah said: “We attended the funeral of Ṭalḥah ibn Muṣarrif. Abū Maʿshar praised him, saying, ‘He has left behind no one like him.’”