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Talhah ibn 'Ubaydullah رضي الله عنه
One Who Fulfilled His Pledge
The Qur'an speaks of believers who made a pledge to Allah and kept it: ﴿مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ رِجَالٌ صَدَقُوا مَا عَاهَدُوا اللَّهَ عَلَيْهِ فَمِنْهُم مَّن قَضَىٰ نَحْبَهُ وَمِنْهُم مَّن يَنتَظِرُ﴾ (“Among the believers are men who were true to what they pledged to Allah. Some of them have fulfilled their vow, and some are still waiting”) (33:23).
Mu'awiyah ibn Abi Sufyan reported that the Prophet ﷺ, seeing Talhah, said that he was among those who had fulfilled their pledge. It is a name by which Talhah is remembered, alongside the glad tidings of Paradise given to him.
The hadith of the ten, narrated by Sa'id ibn Zayd, lists Talhah among those the Prophet ﷺ named as people of Paradise (Sunan Abi Dawud 4649; Jami' al-Tirmidhi 3747).
Allah remembers a promise kept in the hour when keeping it was hardest.
What commitment would you be proud to see through, even when it costs you?
- Qur'an 33:23
- Jami' al-Tirmidhi 3742 Graded by Ahmad Muhammad Shakir: Hasan Sahih · Al-Albani: Hasan Sahih · Bashar Awad Maarouf: Hasan · Zubair Ali Zai: HasanSahih
- Sunan Abi Dawud 4649 Graded by Al-Albani: Sahih · Muhammad Muhyi Al-Din Abdul Hamid: Sahih · Shuaib Al Arnaut: Hasan · Zubair Ali Zai: Isnaad HasanSahih
- Jami' al-Tirmidhi 3747 Graded by Ahmad Muhammad Shakir: Sahih · Al-Albani: Sahih · Zubair Ali Zai: Isnaad SahihSahih
What the hadith grades mean
- Sahih (authentic): an unbroken chain of trustworthy, precise narrators, free of hidden flaws or contradiction. It is acted upon.
- Hasan (good): like sahih, but a narrator's precision is slightly lighter. It is also accepted and acted upon. "Hasan sahih" means it reaches sahih by its routes.
- Da'if (weak): a break in the chain or a narrator who is not reliable enough. It is not used to establish beliefs or rulings.
- Very weak (munkar, matruk): a seriously flawed chain or a narrator accused of lying. It is not relied on at all.
- Mawdu' (fabricated): falsely attributed to the Prophet ﷺ. It may not be narrated as his words except to warn against it.
- The two Sahihs: every hadith with a full chain in Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim is accepted as sahih by the scholars of hadith.
- Historical report: biographies and histories (Ibn Ishaq, Ibn Sa'd, al-Tabari) record events with chains that are often incomplete. They are used for the story, not for rulings.
- Hadith scholars grade a narration; the four madhhabs do not. Where a hadith carries a ruling, the page shows which schools act on it.
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