Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 40573 — The journey of Aishah, Ali, Talhah

Qays reports that on the day of the Battle of the Camel, Marwan bin al-Hakam shot an arrow into the knee of Sayyiduna Talhah (may Allah be pleased with him). Blood began to flow from it. When they all stopped it, it would stop, and when they left it, the blood would flow again. So Sayyiduna Talhah said: Leave it. When the people tried to close the mouth of the wound, the knee swelled up. Sayyiduna Talhah said: Leave it; this arrow was from Allah, the Mighty and Majestic. Then he passed away. We buried him at one side of al-Kalla (a market on the riverbank). One of his family saw him in a dream saying: Will you not rescue me from the water? I have drowned in the water. He said these words three times. His grave was dug open and he had turned green, like chard (a vegetable). The people removed the water from him and then took him out from there, and the part of his beard and face that had touched the ground had been eaten by the earth. They bought for him one of the houses of the family of Abu Bakrah for ten thousand dirhams, and buried Sayyiduna Talhah in it.