al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 4532
✧ The Virtues of Amir al-Mu'minin Dhu al-Nurayn 'Uthman b. 'Affan
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ ثنا بَحْرُ بْنُ نَصْرٍ ثنا ابْنُ وَهْبٍ أَخْبَرَنِي ابْنُ لَهِيعَةَ عَنْ أَبِي الْأَسْوَدِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ مَوْلَى شَدَّادِ بْنِ الْهَادِ قَالَ
«رَأَيْتُ عُثْمَانَ بْنَ عَفَّانَ عَلَى الْمِنْبَرِ يَوْمَ الْجُمُعَةِ وَعَلَيْهِ إِزَارٌ عَدَنِيٌّ غَلِيظٌ قِيمَتُهُ أَرْبَعَةُ دَرَاهِمَ أَوْ خَمْسَةُ دَرَاهِمَ وَرَيْطَةٌ كُوفِيَّةٌ مُمَشَّقَةٌ ضَرْبُ اللَّحْمِ طَوِيلُ اللِّحْيَةِ حَسَنُ الْوَجْهِ»
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Chain of narrators
- Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb
- Baḥr b. Naṣr
- Ibn And Hb
- Ibn Lahīʿah
- Abū al-Aswad
- Abū ʿAbdullāh a freed slave of Shaddād b. al-Hād
✧ "I saw 'Uthman b. 'Affan on the pulpit on Friday wearing a thick Adani waist-wrapper worth four or five dirhams and a Kufan dyed cloak. He was muscular, with a long beard and a handsome face."
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