Musnad Ahmad 481
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حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍ حَدَّثَنَا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ قَالَ وَأَخْبَرَنِي الْأَوْزَاعِيُّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ مَرْوَانَ أَنَّهُ حَدَّثَهُعَنِ الْمُغِيرَةِ بْنِ شُعْبَةَ
أَنَّهُ دَخَلَ عَلَى عُثْمَانَ وَهُوَ مَحْصُورٌ فَقَالَ: إِنَّكَ إِمَامُ الْعَامَّةِ، وَقَدْ نَزَلَ بِكَ مَا تَرَى، وَإِنِّي أَعْرِضُ عَلَيْكَ خِصَالًا ثَلَاثًا اخْتَرْ إِحْدَاهُنَّ: إِمَّا أَنْ تَخْرُجَ فَتُقَاتِلَهُمْ، فَإِنَّ مَعَكَ عَدَدًا وَقُوَّةً وَأَنْتَ عَلَى الْحَقِّ وَهُمْ عَلَى الْبَاطِلِ، وَإِمَّا أَنْ تَخْرِقَ لَكَ بَابًا سِوَى الْبَابِ الَّذِي هُمْ عَلَيْهِ فَتَقْعُدَ عَلَى رَوَاحِلِكَ، فَتَلْحَقَ بِمَكَّةَ، فَإِنَّهُمْ لَنْ يَسْتَحِلُّوكَ وَأَنْتَ بِهَا، وَإِمَّا أَنْ تَلْحَقَ بِالشَّامِ فَإِنَّهُمْ أَهْلُ الشَّامِ، وَفِيهِمْ مُعَاوِيَةُ. فَقَالَ عُثْمَانُ: أَمَّا أَنْ أَخْرُجَ فَأُقَاتِلَ، فَلَنْ أَكُونَ أَوَّلَ مَنْ خَلَفَ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ فِي أُمَّتِهِ بِسَفْكِ الدِّمَاءِ، وَأَمَّا أَنْ أَخْرُجَ إِلَى مَكَّةَ، فَإِنَّهُمْ لَنْ يَسْتَحِلُّونِي بِهَا، فَإِنِّي سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ: يُلْحِدُ رَجُلٌ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ بِمَكَّةَ يَكُونُ عَلَيْهِ نِصْفُ عَذَابِ الْعَالَمِ فَلَنْ أَكُونَ أَنَا إِيَّاهُ، وَأَمَّا أَنْ أَلْحَقَ بِالشَّامِ فَإِنَّهُمْ أَهْلُ الشَّامِ، وَفِيهِمْ مُعَاوِيَةُ، فَلَنْ أُفَارِقَ دَارَ هِجْرَتِي، وَمُجَاوَرَةَ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ.
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Chain of narrators
- ʿAlī b. ʿAyyāsh
- al-Walīd b. Muslim
- al-Awzāʿī
- Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Malik b. Marwān
- Ḥaddathahuʿan al-Mughīrah b. Shuʿbah
✧ He entered upon Uthman while he was besieged and said: 'You are the imam of the common people, and what you see has befallen you. I offer you three options; choose one of them: either you go out and fight them, for you have numbers and strength, and you are upon the truth and they are upon falsehood; or we make for you a door other than the door they are at, so you sit on your mounts and go to Makkah, for they will never deem it lawful to harm you while you are there; or you go to Syria, for they are the people of Syria, and among them is Mu'awiya.' Uthman said: 'As for going out to fight, I will never be the first to succeed the Messenger of Allah ﷺ in his community by shedding blood. As for going out to Makkah, they will never deem it lawful to harm me there, but I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: "A man from Quraysh will commit sacrilege in Makkah, upon whom will be half the punishment of the world." I will never be that man. As for going to Syria, they are the people of Syria, and among them is Mu'awiya, but I will not leave the abode of my migration and the neighborhood of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.'
Notes
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machine translationﷺ. ﷺ. ﷺ.
Grades by grader
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What scholars said about it
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- Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
ثبت
machine translationReliable and firmly established (thabt)
in مسند أحمد, p. 482
Narrators
- One of the foremost early Muslims (al-sābiqūn al-awwalūn), one of the Four Caliphs, and one of the ten given glad tidings of Paradise (al-ʿashara al-mubashshara)d. 35 AHعُثْمَانُ بْنُ عَفَّانَأحد السابقين الأولين والخلفاء الأربعة ، والعشرة المبشرةفقال
- A well-known Companion (ṣaḥābī), who accepted Islam before al-Ḥudaybiyyah.d. 49 AH, or: 50 AH, and al-Khaṭīb reported consensus on that, or: 56 AH, in Tahdhīb al-Kamāl: some said 36 AH, 58 AH, and both are errorsالْمُغِيرَةِ بْنِ شُعْبَةَصحابي مشهور ، أسلم قبل الحديبيةعن
- d. 132 AHمُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ مَرْوَانَحدثه
- trustworthy (thiqah), eminentd. 157 AH, also said: 151 AH, also said: 155 AH, also said: 156 AHالْأَوْزَاعِيُّثقة جليلأخبرني
- Trustworthy (thiqah), but he very often practiced concealment (tadlīs) and levelling (taswiyah).d. 194, or 195 AH, or 196 AHالْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍثقة ، لكنه كثير التدليس والتسويةحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 210 AH, or: 218 AH, or: 219 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍثقة ثبتحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his viewأحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.