Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 37142 — Reports from our Prophet

It is narrated from Abdullah bin Shaddad that he said: Three people of the tribe of Banu Udhrah came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and accepted Islam. The narrator says: He asked: "Who will take care of these people on my behalf?" The narrator says: Sayyiduna Talhah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "I will." Talhah says: So they stayed with me. He says: Then the people were assigned a military expedition. The narrator says: One of them went out on it and was martyred. Then another expedition was sent, and the second man joined it and he too was martyred. The narrator says: The third man remained, until he died of illness on his bed. Sayyiduna Talhah (may Allah be pleased with him) says: Then I saw in a dream that I had entered Paradise. I recognized those men by their names and their marks. He says: The one of them who had died on his bed entered Paradise before the other two. The second to be martyred came after him, and the first of them to be martyred came last of all. The narrator says: Seeing this, a certain thought came into my heart. He says: I came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and mentioned this to him. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "No one has greater virtue with Allah Almighty than the aged man who spends his life in Islam, because he has said 'La ilaha illa Allah', 'Allahu Akbar', 'Subhan Allah' and 'al-hamdu lillah'."