Talhah or Talha is an Arabic masculine
given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a fa ...
, meaning "fruitful tree from heaven".
Talha is the name of a well-known
sahabi
The Companions of the Prophet ( ar, اَلصَّحَابَةُ; ''aṣ-ṣaḥāba'' meaning "the companions", from the verb meaning "accompany", "keep company with", "associate with") were the disciples and followers of Muhammad who saw or m ...
(companion) of the
Islamic prophet Muhammad,
Talha ibn Obaidullah. He is renowned for saving Muhammad's face from an arrow by holding his hand in the way.
People with this name
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Talhah
Ṭalḥa ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Taymī ( ar, طَلْحَة بن عُبَيْد اللّه التَّيمي, ) was a Companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. In Sunni Islam, he is mostly known for being among ('the ten to whom Paradise was ...
, (died 656) famous
companion of Muhammad.
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Talha ibn Hasan, son of
Al-Hasan and his wife
Umm Ishaq.
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Talha ibn Abd Allah al-Khuza'i
Abū Muḥammad Ṭalḥa ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Khalaf al-Khuzāʿī, better known as Talha al-Talahat (literally "Talha of the Talhas"), was a military commander of the Umayyad Caliphate and governor of Sistan in the 680s. The nickname Talha al-Ta ...
, (died 684–685) Umayyad military commander.
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Talha ibn Jaʽfar al-Mutawakkil, (29 November 843 – 2 June 891) was the son of Abbasid caliph
Al-Mutawakkil
Abū al-Faḍl Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Muʿtaṣim bi-ʾllāh ( ar, جعفر بن محمد المعتصم بالله; March 822 – 11 December 861), better known by his regnal name Al-Mutawakkil ʿalā Allāh (, "He who relies on God") was t ...
.
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Talha Jubair
Talha Jubair ( bn, তালহা জুবায়ের) (born 10 December 1985) is a Bangladeshi cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with ...
, Bangladeshi cricketer.
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Talha
Ṭalḥa ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Taymī ( ar, طَلْحَة بن عُبَيْد اللّه التَّيمي, ) was a Companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. In Sunni Islam, he is mostly known for being among ('the ten to whom Paradise was ...
, a Malaysian actor
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Talhah Yunus, Pakistani songwriter, rapper, filmmaker and musician.
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Talha Anjum
Talha Anjum (born 3 October 1996) is a Pakistani Urdu rapper, songwriter and lyricist. He was born and raised in Karachi and is popularly known for being a member and co-founder of the hip-hop band Young Stunners along with Talhah Yunus, ...
, Pakistani songwriter, rapper and musician.
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Talha Mosque 11th-century mosque in
Yemen
Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, north and ...
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See also
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Arabic name
Arabic language names have historically been based on a long naming system. Many people from the Arabic-speaking and also Muslim countries have not had given/ middle/family names but rather a chain of names. This system remains in use throughout ...
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Talha ibn Ubaydullah
References
Arabic masculine given names
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