Uthman ibn Talha

عثمان بن طلحة

The keeper of the Kaaba; his father and uncle were killed at Uhud, then he embraced Islam during the truce of al-Hudaybiyya and emigrated with Khalid ibn al-Walid (may God be pleased with him); he was at the conquest, where the Prophet ﷺ handed him the key of the Kaaba and entered it with him; he died in Medina in 42 AH on the sounder view.

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Era
The Prophetic Era · The Rashidun Caliphate
Region
Arabia
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Summary

Uthman ibn Talha ibn Abi Talha al-Abdari, "the House's doorkeeper"; his mother Umm Sa'id bint al-Aws 1.

Before his Islam

His father Talha and his uncle Uthman ibn Abi Talha were killed at Uhud 1.

His Islam

He became Muslim in the al-Hudaybiyya truce and emigrated with Khalid ibn al-Walid; he witnessed the conquest with the Prophet, who gave him the Ka'ba's key 1. In the two Sahihs, in Ibn Umar's hadith: "the Prophet entered the Ka'ba, and with him entered Bilal, Uthman ibn Talha (may God be pleased with him) and Usama ibn Zayd (may God be pleased with him)" 1.

A rejected report

Ibn Hajar mentions that al-Tha'labi's Tafsir has, without chain, under al-Nisa' 58, that Uthman became Muslim only on the conquest day after the Prophet handed him the House's key. He rules it "rejected" — the established account is that he became Muslim and emigrated with Amr ibn al-As (may God be pleased with him) and Khalid ibn al-Walid 1.

His death

He settled at Medina until he died there in 42 AH — said al-Waqidi and Ibn al-Barqi; or it is said he was martyred at Ajnadayn — al-Askari said that is false 2.

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Member of
Banu Abd al-Dar
Participated in
The Conquest of Mecca (Fath Makka)· The Treaty of Hudaybiyya
Mentioned in
Muwatta 1186

People and things also explored

Quraysh· Mecca· Khalid ibn al-Walid· The Bakr–Khuza'a clash at al-Watir· The Prophetic Era· Bilal ibn Rabah· Muhammad· Umar ibn al-Khattab

Sources

  1. al-Isaba fi tamyiz al-sahaba — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani , p. 1006
  2. al-Isaba fi tamyiz al-sahaba — Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani , p. 1007
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The tribe that held Mecca and the custodianship of the Kaaba — the Prophet's own people, its elite his fiercest opponents for a decade, then, after 630, the core of the new community's leadership.