Explanation of the Hadith of 'Abd Allah ibn Shaddad: "So the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) sent out a group, and one of them went out with them and was martyred."

The Shaykh : After that hadith, there is another hadith, which is also authentic, and it contains some additional detail regarding the previous hadith.
The author said: And from 'Abd Allah ibn Shaddad, that a group of three from Banu 'Udhrah came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and embraced Islam. He said: So the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: . Talhah—this is the one mentioned earlier in the first hadith, Ibn 'Abd Allah—said: I am the one. He said: So they were with Talhah, and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) sent out a group, and one of them went out with them and was martyred—this may be the man mentioned in the previous hadith, which is the most likely, or it may be another man—then he sent out another group, and another one of them went out with them and was martyred, then the third died on his bed. Talhah said: I saw these three who were with me in Paradise; I saw the one who died on his bed ahead of them, and I saw the one who was martyred last following him, and I saw the first of them as the last of them. He said: So I was troubled by that, so I went to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and mentioned it to him, and he said: . It was narrated by Ahmad and Abu Ya'la, and their narrators are the narrators of the authentic collections, and at its beginning in Ahmad there is a disconnection (mursal) as mentioned, and Abu Ya'la connected it by mentioning Talhah in it.
As mentioned, there is some ambiguity in it; because nothing explicit regarding the disconnection (mursal) to which it refers has been mentioned, but this is actually apparent to one who knows the biographies of the hadith narrators; because this hadith began from 'Abd Allah ibn Shaddad that a group from Banu 'Udhrah, so if we know that this 'Abd Allah ibn Shaddad—and he is Ibn al-Had—is a Tabi'i (successor), the disconnection (mursal) in the hadith becomes apparent; because he said: that a group from Banu 'Udhrah came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and since 'Abd Allah ibn Shaddad is a Tabi'i (successor), he did not witness the event or the story, and from here the hadith is mursal (disconnected). So when the author (may Allah have mercy on him) said in his takhrij (tracing): "And at its beginning in Ahmad there is a disconnection (mursal)," he is referring to this aspect; meaning: as if he is saying: and 'Abd Allah ibn Shaddad is a Tabi'i (successor); so he did not witness the story, so the hadith is mursal (disconnected); therefore he adds after saying "as mentioned": and Abu Ya'la connected it by mentioning Talhah in it.
So this story—as we said—may be the previous one; except that it contains some detail, and it may be another story, and the first is the most likely; in it is how the Muslim, the later he is, the greater his reward and more his recompense; by the proof that the martyr who was martyred after the first was ahead of the first, and this third who was not martyred was ahead of the two martyrs; and therefore, the life of the Muslim, however long his life is, as long as he lives within the circle of Islam and strives against his self and its desires; the longer his life is, the better it is for him.
And we ask Allah (Mighty and Majestic) to prolong our lives, and to make our deeds good, and this is sufficient, and praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds.