On the day of Uhud, when the people had turned away in retreat, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was in one area with twelve men from the Ansar, among them Talha bin Ubaydullah. The polytheists caught up with them, so the Messenger of Allah ﷺ turned and said, "Who will face this group?"Talha said, "I will."The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Stay as you are."A man from the Ansar said, "I will, Messenger of Allah."He said, "You go." So he fought until he was killed.Then the Prophet turned, and there were the polytheists again. He said, "Who will face this group?"Talha said, "I will."He said, "Stay as you are."A man from the Ansar said, "I will."He said, "You go." So he fought until he was killed.He kept saying this, and a man from the Ansar would go out to face them, fighting as the one before him had fought, until he was killed. This continued until only the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and Talha bin Ubaydullah remained.The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Who will face this group?"Talha said, "I will." So Talha fought the fight of all eleven, until his hand was struck and his fingers were severed. He cried out, "Hass!"The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Had you said, 'In the name of Allah,' the angels would have lifted you up while the people watched."Then Allah drove the polytheists back.
أخبرنا عمرو بن سواد قال أنبأنا ابن وهب قال أخبرني يحيى بن أيوب وذكر آخر قبله عن عمارة بن غزية عن أبي الزبير
لما كان يوم أحد وولى الناس كان رسول الله ﷺ في ناحية في اثني عشر رجلا من الأنصار وفيهم طلحة بن عبيد الله فأدركهم المشركون فالتفت رسول الله ﷺ وقال من للقوم فقال طلحة أنا قال رسول الله ﷺ كما أنت فقال رجل من الأنصار أنا يا رسول الله فقال أنت فقاتل حتى قتل ثم التفت فإذا المشركون فقال من للقوم فقال طلحة أنا قال كما أنت فقال رجل من الأنصار أنا فقال أنت فقاتل حتى قتل ثم لم يزل يقول ذلك ويخرج إليهم رجل من الأنصار فيقاتل قتال من قبله حتى يقتل حتى بقي رسول الله ﷺ وطلحة بن عبيد الله فقال رسول الله ﷺ من للقوم فقال طلحة أنا فقاتل طلحة قتال الأحد عشر حتى ضربت يده فقطعت أصابعه فقال حس فقال رسول الله ﷺ لو قلت بسم الله لرفعتك الملائكة والناس ينظرون ثم رد الله المشركين
[Hasan] Bayhaqi transmitted it in Dalail Nubuwwah (3/236, 237) through the hadith of Yahya bin Ayub, by the same route. It is also found in Al-Kubra, no. 4357. The hadith has many corroborating narrations, see Majma al-Zawaid (9/149) and elsewhere. Abu Zubayr transmitted it with an ambiguous form of transmission ("an").