On passing by the corpses of Talha and another rebel, who were killed in the Battle of the Camel

When Amīr al-mu’minīn passed by the corpses of Ṭalḥah ibn ‘Ubaydullāh and ‘Abd ar-Raḥmān ibn ‘Attāb ibn Asīd who were both killed in the battle of Jamal, he said:

Abū Muḥammad (Ṭalḥah) lies here away from his own place. By Allāh, I did not like that the Quraysh should lie killed under the stars. I have avenged myself with the descendants of ‘Abd Manāf, but the chief persons of Banū Jumaḥ [1] have escaped me. They had stretched their necks towards a matter for which they were not suited, and therefore their necks were broken before they reached the goal.