The Hand at Uhud

When the Muslim line broke at Uhud, the Prophet ﷺ was left with only a handful of men, wounded in the face, his tooth broken, the enemy pressing in. Talhah stayed. He placed himself between the Prophet ﷺ and the arrows and swords, taking blows on his own body.

Qays ibn Abi Hazim, a later narrator, saw Talhah's hand and found it paralysed: it was the hand with which Talhah had warded off the blows from the Prophet ﷺ at Uhud (Sahih al-Bukhari 3724). Abu Bakr used to say, whenever Uhud was mentioned, that the day had been wholly Talhah's.

Talhah is reported to have borne dozens of wounds that day. He did not speak of it for himself; he spoke of it as the least he owed the Messenger ﷺ.