A group of three men from the tribe of Banu Udhrah came to the Prophet ﷺ and embraced Islam.The Prophet ﷺ asked, "Who will take charge of looking after them for me?"Talha said, "I will."So they stayed with Talha. Later, the Prophet ﷺ dispatched a military expedition, and one of them went out and was martyred. Then he dispatched another expedition, and another of them went out and was martyred. The third later died on his bed.Talha said, "I saw these three men who had stayed with me in Paradise. I saw the one who died on his bed in front of them, the one who was martyred last following him, and the one who was martyred first behind them all. This troubled me, so I came to the Prophet ﷺ and mentioned it to him."The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "What is it that you find strange about that? No one stands in higher rank with Allah than a believer who is granted long life in Islam, for his glorifying, magnifying, and declaring the oneness of Allah."
حدثنا وكيع حدثني طلحة بن يحيى بن طلحة عن إبراهيم بن محمد بن طلحة
أن نفرا من بني عذرة ثلاثة أتوا النبي ﷺ فأسلموا قال فقال النبي ﷺ من يكفنيهم قال طلحة أنا قال فكانوا عند طلحة فبعث النبي ﷺ بعثا فخرج أحدهم فاستشهد قال ثم بعث بعثا فخرج فيهم آخر فاستشهد قال ثم مات الثالث على فراشه قال طلحة فرأيت هؤلاء الثلاثة الذين كانوا عندي في الجنة فرأيت الميت على فراشه أمامهم ورأيت الذي استشهد أخيرا يليه ورأيت الذي استشهد أولهم آخرهم قال فدخلني من ذلك قال فأتيت النبي ﷺ فذكرت ذلك له قال فقال رسول الله ﷺ وما أنكرت من ذلك ليس أحد أفضل عند الله من مؤمن يعمر في الإسلام لتسبيحه وتكبيره وتهليله