al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 5244
✧ The killing of Uthman b. Affan ᴿᴬ
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وَقَالَ أَبُو يَعْلَى: حَدَّثَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ، ثَنَا عَفَّانُ، ثَنَا وُهَيْبٌ، عَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ عُقْبَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي عَلْقَمَةَ مَوْلَى عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عَوْفٍ، عَنْ كَثِيرِ بْنِ الصَّلْتِ قَالَ:
نَامَ عُثْمَانُ ؓ فِي ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمِ الَّذِي قُتِلَ فِيهِ، وَهُوَ يَوْمُ الْجُمُعَةِ، فَلَمَّا اسْتَيْقَظَ قَالَ: لَوْلَا أَنْ يَقُولَ النَّاسُ: تَمَنَّى عُثْمَانُ ( ؓ ) أُمْنِيَةً، لَحَدَّثْتُكُمْ حَدِيثًا، قَالَ: قُلْنَا
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Chain of narrators
- Abū Yaʿlá
- ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿUmar
- ʿAffān
- Wuhayb
- Mūsá b. ʿUqbah
- Abū ʿAlqamah a freed slave of ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. ʿAwf
- Kathīr b. al-Ṣalt
✧ ʿUthmān ؓ slept on that day on which he was killed—it was Friday. When he awoke, he said: 'Were it not that people would say, "ʿUthmān ؓ wished for a wish," I would tell you something.' He said: We said—
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- Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī
فيه أبو علقمة مولى عبد الرحمن بن عوف ولم أعرفه وبقية رجاله ثقات
in المطالب العالية, p. 5244
Other narrations of this report
Musnad al-Bazzar 444al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 4542al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 5245
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- 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 المبشرةقال
- trustworthy (thiqah), whoever made him a Companion was mistakend. between 71 and 80 AHكَثِيرِ بْنِ الصَّلْتِثقة ، ووهم من جعله صحابياعن
- أبو علقمة مولى عبد الرحمن بن عوفعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), jurist (faqīh), an imām in the military expeditions (maghāzī)d. 141 AH, or 142 AH, also said: 135 AH, also said: before 145 AHمُوسَى بْنِ عُقْبَةَثقة فقيه ، إمام في المغازيعن
- memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), trustworthy and reliable (thiqah thabt), but he changed slightly at the end of his lifed. 165 AH, also said: 169 AHوُهَيْبٌالحافظ ، ثقة ثبت ، لكنه تغير قليلا بآخرهحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 219 AH, or 220 AHعَفَّانُثقة ثبتحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 233 AH or 234 AH or 235 AHعُبَيْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عُمَرَثقة ثبتحدثنا
- d. 307 AHأَبُو يَعْلَى
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