al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 5236
✧ The killing of Uthman b. Affan ᴿᴬ
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حَدَّثَنَا النَّضْرُ بْنُ شُمَيْلٍ، ثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ - وَهُوَ ابْنُ الْمُغِيرَةِ - ثَنَا حُمَيْدٌ - وَهُوَ ابْنُ هِلَالٍ الْعَدَوِيُّ - ثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مُغَفَّلٍ قَالَ:
كَانَ عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ سَلَامٍ ؓ يَجِيءُ مِنْ أَرْضٍ لَهُ عَلَى أَتَانٍ أَوْ حِمَارٍ يَوْمَ الْجُمُعَةِ، فَيُبَكِّرُ، فَإِذَا قَضَى الصَّلَاةَ أَتَى أَرْضَهُ، فَلَمَّا هَاجَ النَّاسُ بِعُثْمَانَ ؓ قَالَ لَهُمْ عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ سَلَامٍ ؓ: لَا تَقْتُلُوهُ، وَاسْتَعْتِبُوهُ، فَوَالَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ، مَا قَتَلَتْ أُمَّةٌ نَبِيَّهَا، فَأَصْلَحَ اللهُ ذَاتَ بَيْنِهِمْ حَتَّى يُهَرِيقُوا دَمَ سَبْعِينَ أَلْفًا، وَمَا قَتَلَتْ أُمَّةٌ خَلِيفَةً، فَأَصْلَحَ اللهُ ذَاتَ بَيْنِهِمْ حَتَّى يُهَرِيقُوا دَمَ أَرْبَعِينَ أَلْفًا، وَمَا هَلَكَتْ أُمَّةٌ قَطُّ حَتَّى يَرْفَعُوا الْقُرْآنَ عَلَى السُّلْطَانِ، ثُمَّ قَالَ لَهُمْ: لَا تَقْتُلُوهُ وَاسْتَعْتِبُوهُ، قَالَ: فَمَا نَظَرُوا فِيمَا قَالَ فَقَتَلُوهُ. قَالَ: فَجَلَسَ عَلَى طَرِيقِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ؓ حَتَّى أَتَاهُ عَلِيٌّ ؓ، فَقَالَ لَهُ: أَيْنَ تُرِيدُ ؟ فَقَالَ: الْعِرَاقَ، فَقَالَ: لَا تَأْتِ الْعِرَاقَ، وَعَلَيْكَ بِمِنْبَرِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ، فَالْزَمْهُ، وَلَا أَدْرِي هَلْ يُنْجِيكَ، فَوَاللهِ لَئِنْ تَرَكْتَهُ لَا تَرَاهُ أَبَدًا، فَقَالَ مَنْ حَوْلَهُ: دَعْنَا فَلْنَقْتُلْهُ، قَالَ عَلِيٌّ ؓ: إِنَّ عَبْدَ اللهِ بْنَ سَلَامٍ مِنَّا رَجُلٌ صَالِحٌ. قَالَ ابْنُ مُغَفَّلٍ: وَكُنْتُ اسْتَأْذَنْتُ ابْنَ سَلَامٍ فِي أَرْضٍ إِلَى جَنْبِ أَرْضِهِ أَنْ أَشْتَرِيَهَا، فَقَالَ لِي بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ: هَذَا رَأْسُ أَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةً، وَسَيَكُونُ بَعْدَهَا صُلْحٌ، فَاشْتَرِهَا
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Chain of narrators
- al-Naḍr b. Shumayl
- Sulaymān / Ibn al-Mughīrah
- Ḥumayd Wahū Ibn Hilāl al-ʿAdawī
- ʿAbdullāh b. Mughaffal
✧ Abdullah b. Salam ؓ used to come from a piece of land of his on a she-donkey or a donkey on Friday, arriving early. When he finished the prayer, he would go to his land. When the people stirred up against Uthman ؓ, Abdullah b. Salam ؓ said to them, 'Do not kill him; seek his repentance. By the One in whose hand is my soul, no nation has killed its prophet and then God set their affairs right until they shed the blood of seventy thousand, and no nation has killed a caliph and then God set their affairs right until they shed the blood of forty thousand. No nation has ever perished except after they raised the Quran against the ruler.' Then he said to them, 'Do not kill him; seek his repentance.' He said: But they did not consider what he said and killed him. He said: Then he sat on the road of Ali b. Abi Talib ؓ until Ali ؓ came to him. He said to him, 'Where do you intend to go?' He said, 'Iraq.' He said, 'Do not go to Iraq. Keep to the pulpit of the Messenger of God ﷺ and adhere to it. I do not know whether it will save you. By God, if you leave it, you will never see it again.' Those around him said, 'Let us kill him.' Ali ؓ said, 'Abdullah b. Salam is a righteous man among us.' Ibn Mughaffal said: I had asked Ibn Salam for permission regarding a piece of land next to his land to buy it. He said to me afterwards, 'This is the beginning of forty years, and after it there will be peace, so buy it.'
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- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 43 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ سَلَامِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ الْإِسْرَائِيلِيُّصحابيقال
- Companion (ṣaḥābī), who gave the pledge of allegiance under the treed. Musaddad said: 59 AH, Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr said: 60 AH, also said: 61 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مُغَفَّلٍصحابي ، بايع تحت الشجرةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a scholard. during the governorship of Khālid b. ʿAbd Allāh over Iraqحُمَيْدٌ - وَهُوَ ابْنُ هِلَالٍ الْعَدَوِيُّثقة عالمحدثنا
- trustworthy, trustworthy (thiqah thiqah) — said by Yaḥyā b. Maʿīnd. 165 AHسُلَيْمَانُ - وَهُوَ ابْنُ الْمُغِيرَةِثقة ثقة ـ قاله يحيى بن معينحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 203 AH, or: 204 AH, also said: 202 AHالنَّضْرُ بْنُ شُمَيْلٍثقة ثبتحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer, a mujtahid (thiqah ḥāfiẓ mujtahid)d. 237 AH, or 238 AHإسحاق ابن راهويهثقة حافظ مجتهد
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