Earnings & Wealth

Hazrat Talha (ra) bin Ubaidullah would earn 400,000 to 500,000 dinars from his different farms in Iraq. He would earn crops from the lands in different areas of Saraat, which was a mountainous region similar to an Island, to the west of the Arab peninsula and spanned from north to south. It was also known as Jabal as-Saraat. He would earn at least 10,000 dinar from the grain of this area and also from other lands he owned. There was not a single poor person from among the Banu Taim whose family did not benefit from the wealth of Hazrat Talha (ra) and whose widows were not married from that wealth and whose needy were not granted assistance, i.e., he would help the poor and would pay the debts of those who were unable to pay them. Moreover, each year when he would earn from his produce, he would send 10,000 dirham to Hazrat Aisha (ra).

(al-Tabaqaat-ul-Kubra li ibn Sa‘d, Vol. 3, p. 166, Talha bin Ubaidillah, Dar-ul-Kutub al-Ilmiyyah, Beirut, 1990) (Farhang Sirat, p. 147, Zawwar Academy Publications, Karachi, 2003)

Hazrat Muwaiyyah (ra) asked Musa (ra) bin Talha, “How much wealth did Abu Muhammad (i.e., Hazrat Talha (ra) bin Ubaidullah) leave behind?” He replied, “2.2 million dirham and 200,000 dinar.” All of his wealth was earned from the various lands he owned.

(al-Tabaqaat-ul-Kubra li ibn Sa‘d, Vol. 3, p. 166, Talha bin Ubaidillah, Dar-ul-Kutub al-Ilmiyyah, Beirut, 1990)