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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Narrators
- The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AHأَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابةيحدث عن
- Trustworthy (thiqah); his memory changed four years before his death, and his narration from ʿĀʾishah and Umm Salamah is mursal.d. 117 AH or 123 AH, or 125 AH, or 126 AH, or around the year 120 AHأَبَا سَعِيدٍ الْمَقْبُرِيَّثقة ، تغير قبل موته بأربع سنين ، وروايته عن عائشة وأم سلمة مرسلةسمعت
- weak (ḍaʿīf), he grew old and his memory became confused (ikhtilāṭ)d. 170 AHأَبُو مَعْشَرٍضعيف ، أسن واختلطحدثنا
- d. 211 AHخَالِدُ بْنُ الْقَاسِمِحدثنا
- d. 279 AH or 282 AHالحارث بن محمد بن أبي أسامة
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