“…the angels would have lifted you up while the people looked on, carrying you all the way into the heights of heaven.”

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ then climbed up to his Companions, who were gathered together.

Al-Bukhārī [1] relates—through Abū Bakr ʿAbdullāh ibn Abī Shaybah, from Wakīʿ, from Ismāʿīl, from Qays ibn Abī Ḥāzim—who said: “I saw that Ṭalḥah’s hand was paralyzed; he had shielded the Prophet ﷺ with it on the Day of Uḥud.”

In the two Ṣaḥīḥs [2], by way of Muʿtamir ibn Sulaymān from his father, from Abū ʿUthmān al-Nahdī, it is reported: “On one of the days in which the Prophet ﷺ fought, no one remained with him except Ṭalḥah and Saʿd,” according to each of their respective accounts.

Al-Ḥasan ibn ʿArafah [3] said: “Marwān ibn Muʿāwiyah narrated to us, from Hāshim ibn Hāshim al-Zuhrī: I heard Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib say: I heard Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ say: ‘The Messenger of Allah ﷺ handed me his quiver on the Day of Uḥud and said, “Shoot—may my father and mother be ransomed for you.”’ ”

Al-Bukhārī [4] likewise recorded it from ʿAbdullāh ibn Muḥammad, from Marwān with this same chain.

And in Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī [5], in the report of ʿAbdullāh ibn Shaddād from ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, he said: “I never heard the Prophet ﷺ combine both his father and mother as a ransom for anyone except Saʿd ibn Mālik. I heard him on the Day of Uḥud saying, ‘O Saʿd, shoot! May my father and mother be ransomed for you.’ ”

Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq [6] said: “Ṣāliḥ ibn Kaysān told me—from some of the household of Saʿd—from Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ—that he was the one shooting arrows on the Day of Uḥud in defense of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. Saʿd said: ‘I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ passing arrows to me and saying, “Shoot—may my father and mother be ransomed for you,” to the point that he handed me an arrow without an iron head and I would still shoot it.’ ”

It is established in the two Ṣaḥīḥs [7]—through Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd, from his father [from his grandfather, Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ]—who said: “On the Day of Uḥud I saw, to the right of the Prophet ﷺ and to his left, two men clothed in white fighting on his behalf with the fiercest combat; I had never seen them before nor afterwards. They were Gabriel and Michael, peace be upon them.”

Aḥmad [8] narrated: “ʿAffān related to us; Ḥammād related to us; Thābit related to us, from Anas—that Abū Ṭalḥah used to shoot arrows in front of …”