Abū Ṭalḥa, Zayd ibn Sahl ibn al-Aswad ibn Ḥarām al-Khazrajī () was a renowned companion of the Islamic prophet

Muḥammad Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet divinely inspired to preach and confirm the monoth ...

and one of the Anṣār (the ‘Helpers’) of

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. He was from

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, which after the

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came to be known as the Ansar. He was mostly known as a valiant fighter and skilful archer of the early Islamic period. Abū Ṭalḥa was known to have been a horseman of Muhammad and was at Muhammad's side during the oath of allegiance at al- ʿAqaba and in the battles of

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, Uḥud and

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. He died at the age of 70 in the year 34/654 in Medina. Those who narrated from him include:

Anas ibn Malik Anas ibn Mālik ibn Naḍr al-Khazrajī al-Anṣārī ( ar, أنس بن مالك الخزرجي الأنصاري (c.612 – c.712 Finding the Truth in Judging the Companions, 1. 84-5; EI2, 1. 482 A. J. Wensinck J. Robson) was a well-known ''saha ...

Ibn Abbas ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbbās ( ar, عَبْد ٱللَّٰه ٱبْن عَبَّاس; c. 619 – 687 CE), also known as Ibn ʿAbbās, was one of the cousins of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He is considered to be the greatest mufassir of the Qur'an ...

, 'Abd al-Rahman ibn 'Abd al-Qari, 'Abd Allah ibn Abu Talha and Ishaq ibn 'Abd Allah ibn Abi Talha, with the penultimate and last of whom being his son and grandson.al-Dhahabi, Siyar A'lam al-Nubala', 2:27

Shuaib Al Arna'ut The Late Al Arnaout. Shuaib ibn Muharram al-Albani al-Arnauti (in Arabicشعيب بن محرم الألباني الأرناؤوطي ) (2016-1928) was a well known Albanian scholar of Hadith in the Islamic World. He was famous for his works on H ...

remarked the feat of Abu Talhah in battlefield which testified by

narration, where Abu Talha once managed to kill twenty enemy by his own hand in a single battle during military campaign under Muhammad, and rewarded by the latter to seize each of those twenty enemy soldiers belonging as his spoils of war.

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