cheek. “Take this stroke from me, I am Ibn Qami’a.” He said while striking the Messenger with his  sword. The Messenger of Allâh (Peace be upon him) replied — while he was wiping the blood flowing  on  his face: “I implore Allâh to humiliate you.” (i.e. Aqma’aka Allâh). In Al-Bukhâri it is stated his incisor  broke, his head was cleaved, and that he started wiping the blood off it and saying: “(I wonder) how  can peopwho cut the face of their Prophet (Peace be upon him) and break the incisor of his — he who  calls them to worship Allâh. How can such people thrive or be successful?” About that incident, Allâh,
Glory is to Him, sent down a Qur’ânic verse saying:
“Not for you O Muhammad (Peace be upon him) but for Allâh is the decision; whether He turns  in mercy to (pardons) them or punishes them; verily, they are the Zâlimûn (polytheists,  disobedients, and wrong-doers).” 3:128
At-Tabarani states that the Prophet (Peace be upon him) said: “Allâh’s Wrath is great on those who  besmear the face of His Messenger,” observed silence for a short while and then resumed saying:
“O Allâh, forgive my people for they have no knowledge.”
In Sahih Muslim it is stated that the Messenger of Allâh (Peace be upon him) said:
“My Lord, forgive my people for they have no knowledge.”
In Ash-Shifa — a book by ‘Ayad Al-Qadi — it is related that the Prophet (Peace be upon him) said:
“O Allâh, guide my people for they have no knowledge.”
It is quite certain that killing the Prophet (Peace be upon him) was their primary aim, but the two
Quraishites — Sa‘d bin Abi Waqqas and Talha bin ‘Ubaidullâh, who showed great and rare courage and  fought so fiercely and boldly that — though they were only two — were able to stop the idolaters short  of realizing their aim. They were of the best skillful Arab archers and kept on militating in defence of  the
Messenger of Allâh (Peace be upon him) till the whole squad of idolaters was driven off him (Peace be  upon him).
The Messenger of Allâh (Peace be upon him) emptied his quiver of arrows and said to Sa‘d bin Abi
Waqqas: “Shoot, an arrow Sa‘d. May my father and mother be sacrified for you.” The Prophet (Peace  be  upon him) had never gathered his parents except in the case of Sa‘d — a privilege granted to him for  his efficiency.
In a version by Jabir — authorized by An-Nasa’i — concerning the attitude of Talha bin ‘Ubaidullâh  towards the gathering of idolaters around the Messenger of Allâh (Peace be upon him) — when there  were only some Helpers with him — Jabir said: “When the idolaters reached him, the Messenger of
Allâh (Peace be upon him) said: ‘Who will suffice us their evils (i.e. fight them back)?’ Talha said: ‘I  will.’” Then Jabir mentioned the advance of the Helpers to fight and how they were killed one after the  other in a similar way to Muslim’s narration — “When all the Helpers were killed, Talha proceeded  forward to fight as much as the other eleven ones did till his hand was hurt and his fingers were cut  off.
So he said: ‘Be they cut off!’ The Prophet (Peace be upon him) said: ‘If you had said: In the Name of
Allâh, the angels would have raised you up before the people’s very eyes.’” Then he said: “Allâh drove  the idolaters off them.” In Al-Ikleel — a book by Hakim — it is stated that Talha had sustained  thirtynine  or thirty-five wounds, and his fingers (i.e. the forefinger and the one next to it — got paralyzed.
In a version by Qais bin Abi Hâzim — authorized by Al-Bukhari, he said: “I saw the hand of Talha  paralyzed. That was because he protected the Prophet (Peace be upon him) with it in Uhud Battle.”
At-Tirmidhi stated that the Prophet (Peace be upon him) then said about Talha: “He who desires to  see  a martyr walking on the ground, let him look at Talha bin ‘Ubaidullâh.”
Abu Da’ûd At-Tayalisi on the authority of ‘Aishah (May Allah be pleased with her), said: “Whenever
Uhud Day (i.e. battle) was mentioned, Abu Bakr used to say: ‘That was Talha’s day (i.e. battle)’. Abu
Bakr recited a verse of poetry about him: ‘O Talha bin ‘Ubaidullâh! Paradise is due to you as  watersprings  are due to deer to drink out of.’ At the awkward and most delicate circumstances, Allâh, Glory is  to Him, sent down His invisible Help. In a version by Sa‘d — cleared and authorized in Sahih
Al-Bukhari  and Muslim — he said: “I saw the Messenger of Allâh (Peace be upon him) on Uhud Day with two men
— dressed in white defending him fiercely — I have never seen similar to them neither before Uhud  nor  after it.” In another version: “He means to say that they were Gabriel and Michael”.