al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 5254
✧ The killing of Uthman b. Affan ᴿᴬ
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قَالَ إِسْحَاقُ: ثَنَا أَبُو عَامِرٍ الْعَقَدِيُّ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدٍ وَهُوَ ابْنُ طَلْحَةَ بْنِ مُصَرِّفٍ، حَدَّثَنِي كِنَانَةُ مَوْلَى صَفِيَّةَ بِنْتِ حُيَيٍّ
أَنَّهُ شَهِدَ مَقْتَلَ عُثْمَانَ قَالَ: أَنَا يَوْمَئِذٍ ابْنُ أَرْبَعَ عَشْرَةَ سَنَةً، قَالَ: أَمَرَتْنَا صَفِيَّةُ أَنْ نُرَحِّلَ بَغْلَةً بِهَوْدَجٍ، فَرَحَّلْنَاهَا ثُمَّ مَشَيْنَا حَوْلَهَا إِلَى الْبَابِ، فَإِذَا الْأَشْتَرُ وَنَاسٌ مَعَهُ، فَقَالَ لَهَا الْأَشْتَرُ: ارْجِعِي إِلَى بَيْتِكِ فَأَبَتْ، فَرَفَعَ قَنَاةً مَعَهُ، أَوْ رُمْحًا، فَضَرَبَ عَجُزَ الْبَغْلَةِ، فَثَبَّتَ الْبَغْلَةَ وَمَالَ الْهَوْدَجُ حَتَّى كَادَ أَنْ يَقَعَ، فَلَمَّا رَأَتْ ذَلِكَ قَالَتْ: رُدُّونِي، رُدُّونِي، قَالَ: قَدْ خَرَجَ مِنَ الدَّارِ أَرْبَعَةُ نَفَرٍ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ، مَضْرُوبِينَ مَحْمُولِينَ، كَانُوا يَدْرَؤُونَ عَنْ عُثْمَانَ، فَذَكَرَ الْحَسَنَ بْنَ عَلِيٍّ وَعَبْدَ اللهِ بْنَ الزُّبَيْرِ وَابْنَ خَاطِبٍ وَمَرْوَانَ بْنَ الْحَكَمِ، قُلْتُ: فَهَلْ تَدَمَّى مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ مِنْ دَمِهِ بِشَيْءٍ ؟ قَالَ: مَعَاذَ اللهِ، دَخَلَ عَلَيْهِ، فَقَالَ لَهُ عُثْمَانُ: لَسْتُ بِصَاحِبِهِ وَكَلَّمَهُ بِكَلَامٍ، فَخَرَجَ وَلَمْ يَدْرِ مِنْ دَمِهِ بِشَيْءٍ، قُلْتُ: فَمَنْ قَتَلَهُ ؟ قَالَ: رَجُلٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ مِصْرَ يُقَالُ لَهُ: جَبَلَةُ، فَجَعَلَ يَقُولُ: أَنَا قَاتِلُ نَعْثَلٍ، قُلْتُ: فَأَيْنَ عُثْمَانُ يَوْمَئِذٍ ؟ قَالَ: فِي الدَّارِ
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Chain of narrators
- Isḥāq
- Abū ʿĀmir al-ʿAqadī
- Muḥammad / Ibn Ṭalḥah b. Muṣarrif
- Kinānah a freed slave of Ṣafiyyah Bint Ḥuyay
✧ He witnessed the killing of Uthman and said: I was then a boy of fourteen. He said: Safiyyah ordered us to saddle a mule with a howdah, so we saddled it, then walked around it to the gate. There was al-Ashtar with some people. Al-Ashtar said to her, "Go back to your house," but she refused. He raised a short spear or a lance and struck the mule's rump, so the mule steadied while the howdah tilted until it almost fell. When she saw that, she said, "Take me back, take me back!" He said: Four men of Quraysh had come out of the house, wounded and being carried; they had been defending Uthman. He mentioned al-Hasan b. Ali, Abdullah b. al-Zubayr, Ibn Khatib, and Marwan b. al-Hakam. I said: Did Muhammad b. Abi Bakr get stained with any of his blood? He said: God forbid! He entered upon him, and Uthman said to him, "I am not your man," and spoke to him some words, then he left without having touched any of his blood. I said: Then who killed him? He said: A man from Egypt called Jabalah. He kept saying, "I am the killer of Na'thal." I said: Where was Uthman then? He said: In the house.
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Narrators
- Mother of the Believers (Umm al-Muʾminīn)d. 36 AH. Ibn Mandah was certain of it, and it is an error, al-Wāqidī said: 50 AH, and this is closer. Ibn Saʿd said: 52 AHصَفِيَّة بِنْت حُيَيّ زَوْج رَسُول اللهأم المؤمنينفي حكم العنعنة
- acceptable (maqbūl), al-Azdī deemed him weak without proofd. between 121 and 130 AHكِنَانَةُ مَوْلَى صَفِيَّةَ بِنْتِ حُيَيٍّمقبول ، ضعفه الأزدي بلا حجةحدثني
- truthful (ṣadūq), has some lapses (awhām), they denied that he heard from his father; because of his young aged. 167 AHمُحَمَّدٍ وَهُوَ ابْنُ طَلْحَةَ بْنِ مُصَرِّفٍصدوق له أوهام ، وأنكروا سماعه من أبيه ؛ لصغرهعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 204 AH or 205 AHأَبُو عَامِرٍ الْعَقَدِيُّثقةحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer, a mujtahid (thiqah ḥāfiẓ mujtahid)d. 237 AH, or 238 AHإِسْحَاقُثقة حافظ مجتهد
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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