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Nawfal Ibn Khuwailid, who was called The Lion of the Quraish. However, their persecution did not last
long, as the Quraish soon felt ashamed and began to think about the consequences of their deeds.
Talhah emigrated to Al-Madiinah when the Prophet (PBUH) ordered the Muslims to emigrate. After
that he experienced all the battles together with the Prophet (PBUH) except the Battle of Badr because
the Prophet (PBUH) had sent him and Sa`iid Ibn Zaid on an assignment outside Al-Madiinah.
When they had fulfilled their task and were on their way back to Al Madiinah, the Prophet (PBUH)
and his Companions were returning home after the battle. Talhah and his companion felt so sad and
tormented for having missed the reward of joining the Prophet (PBUH) in his first jihaad battle.
However, the Prophet (PBUH) accorded them peace of mind when he informed them that their
reward was exactly like the warrior's reward; moreover, he gave them a share of the booty exactly like
the share he gave to each one who had fought the battle.
Then came the Battle of Uhud, when the Quraish, with all their might and tyranny, came to take
blood revenge for the Day of Badr and to restore their dignity by defeating the Muslims once and for all,
a defeat which was thought by the Quraish to be a simple matter and a predetermined fate. The fierce
battle took place, and soon the battlefield was filled with its awful harvest: calamity overtook the
polytheists.
Then when the Muslims saw them retreating, they laid down their weapons and the archers
descended from their posts and began to collect their share of booty. Immediately and suddenly the
Quraish army turned back to hold the field and tip the balance of the battle in their favor.
The fighting's ferocity, cruelty, and crushing resumed. The surprise attack had the effect of
scattering the army.
Talhah saw that the side of the battlefield where the Prophet (PBUH) was standing had become the
target of the polytheists' concentration. He immediately hurried towards the Prophet (PBUH).
He (May Allah be pleased with him) traversed a path, a long one, although it was in fact a short
distance.
It was a path in which a single inch could not be traversed except by confronting tens of ferocious
swords and tens of mad lances.
He could see from a far distance how the Prophet's (PBUH) cheek was bleeding and how he was
silently suffering. It was then that Talhah got mad, leaped once or twice over the path of horror to reach
the Prophet (PBUH), in front of whom he had to experience what he was afraid of: the swords of the
polytheists drawn towards the Prophet (PBUH), surrounding him, wanting to get at him.
Talhah stood there like a raging army, striking with his sword to the left and right. He could see the
Prophet (PBUH) bleeding and his pains becoming more and more unbearable. He helped him and carried
him away from the hole where his foot had gotten stuck.
He supported the Prophet (PBUH) with his left hand and chest, backing up to a safe, secure place,
while his right hand (May Allah bless his right hand) fought the swords of the polytheists who
surrounded the Prophet and who swarmed the battlefield like locusts.
Let Abu Bakr As-siddiiq describe for us the whole scene of battle. `Aa'ishah once said: Whenever
Abu Bakr recalled the Day of Uhud he used to say, It was the Tallaah's day. I was the first who
approached the Prophet (PBUH). He said to me and to Abu Ubaidah lbn Al-Jarraah, "Watch out, for your