al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 5242
✧ The killing of Uthman b. Affan ᴿᴬ
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حَدَّثَنَا خَالِدُ بْنُ الْقَاسِمِ، ثَنَا أَبُو مَعْشَرٍ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أَبَا سَعِيدٍ الْمَقْبُرِيَّ، يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ؓ قَالَ:
كُنْتُ مَحْصُورًا فِي الدَّارِ مَعَ عُثْمَانَ ؓ، فَرَمَوْا رَجُلًا مِنَّا فَقَتَلُوهُ، فَقُلْتُ: يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ! طَابَ الضِّرَابُ، قَتَلُوا مِنَّا رَجُلًا، فَقَالَ ؓ: عَزَمْتُ عَلَيْكَ يَا أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ لَمَا رَمَيْتَ بِسَيْفِكَ، فَإِنَّمَا تُرَادُ نَفْسِي، وَسَأَقِي الْمُسْلِمِينَ بِنَفْسِي، قَالَ أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ ؓ: فَرَمَيْتُ بِسَيْفِي، فَمَا أَدْرِي أَيْنَ هُوَ حَتَّى السَّاعَةِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Khālid b. al-Qāsim
- Abū Maʿshar
- Abū Saʿīd al-Maqburī Yuḥaddith
- Abū Hurayrah
✧ I was besieged in the house with ʿUthmān ؓ. They shot a man from among us and killed him. I said: 'O Commander of the Faithful, striking is now permissible—they have killed one of our men.' He ؓ said: 'I adjure you, O Abū Hurayrah, to cast aside your sword, for it is only myself they seek, and I will shield the Muslims with my own life.' Abū Hurayrah ؓ said: 'So I cast aside my sword, and I do not know where it is even to this hour.'
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