Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Shaddad (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: Three men from Banu Udhrah came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and accepted Islam. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "Who will take care of them for me?" Sayyiduna Talhah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I will. So they stayed with Sayyiduna Talhah. Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) sent out a military expedition; one of them took part in it and attained martyrdom. Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) sent out another expedition, and the second of them took part in it and he too attained martyrdom. The third of them died on his bed. Sayyiduna Talhah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: I saw those three men in a dream, present with me in Paradise. I saw that the one who had died on his bed was ahead of them, after him was the rank of the one who had been martyred later, and the one who had been martyred first had the last rank of all. Sayyiduna Talhah (may Allah be pleased with him) says: I was perplexed by this. I came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and mentioned it to him, and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "What is it about this that surprises you? No one has greater virtue in the sight of Allah Almighty than a believer who is granted a long life in Islam, so that he declares the glory of Allah Almighty, His greatness and that He alone is worthy of worship." (Allamah al-Haythami says:) I say: A hadith transmitted by Sayyiduna Talhah (may Allah be pleased with him) has been recorded by Ibn Majah in "Kitab al-Ta'bir", and it is other than this report.
Ahmad recorded it; he recorded part of it as mawsul (connected) and its opening part as mursal,
Abu Ya'la and al-Bazzar also recorded it; both of them say it is from Abdullah bin Shaddad from Sayyiduna Talhah (may Allah be pleased with him), so they both recorded it in a similar form as mawsul, and their narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.
Hadith Referenceمجمع الزوائد ومنبع الفوائد / كتاب التوبة / 17554
Hadith Gradingمحدثین:إسنادہ صحیح
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