al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 5255
✧ Ali's innocence from the killing of Uthman ᴿᴬ
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قَالَ مُسَدَّدٌ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ، عَنْ رُبَيْحٍ، عَنْ أَبِي مُوسَى، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ قَالَ: إِنَّ عَلِيًّا ؓ قَالَ:
إِنَّ بَنِي أُمَيَّةَ يُقَاتِلُونَنِي، يَزْعُمُونَ أَنِّي قَتَلْتُ عُثْمَانَ ؓ، وَكَذَبُوا، إِنَّمَا يُرِيدُونَ الْمُلْكَ، وَلَوْ أَعْلَمُ أَنَّهُ يُذْهِبُ مَا فِي قُلُوبِهِمْ أَنِّي أَحْلِفُ لَهُمْ عِنْدَ الْمَقَامِ: وَاللهِ مَا قَتَلْتُ عُثْمَانَ ؓ، وَلَا أَمَرْتُ بِقَتْلِهِ لَفَعَلْتُ، وَلَكِنْ إِنَّمَا يُرِيدُونَ الْمُلْكَ، وَإِنِّي لَأَرْجُو أَنْ أَكُونَ أَنَا وَعُثْمَانُ ؓ مِمَّنْ قَالَ اللهُ تَعَالَى: وَنَـزَعْنَا مَا فِي صُدُورِهِمْ مِنْ غِلٍّ... الْآيَةَ
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Chain of narrators
- Musaddad
- ʿAbdullāh
- Rubayḥ
- Abū Mūsá
- ʿAbdullāh b. Abū Sufyān
- In ʿAlī
✧ The Umayyads are fighting me, claiming that I killed Uthman ؓ, but they lie. They only want kingship. If I knew that swearing to them at the Maqam would remove what is in their hearts—"By Allah, I did not kill Uthman ؓ, nor did I order his killing"—I would do it. But they only want kingship. I hope that I and Uthman ؓ are among those about whom Allah, Exalted is He, said: "And We shall remove whatever rancor is in their breasts..." [Quran 7:43].
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Other narrations of this report
Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 38828Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 38835Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 21049al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 4900
Narrators
- One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرةإن
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. at the killing of al-Ḥusaynعَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ أَبِي سُفْيَانَصحابيعن
- أبو موسىعن
- رُبَيْحٍعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 211 AH, or 212 AH, Ibn Saʿd said: 213 AHعَبْدُ اللهِثقة عابدحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 228 AHمُسَدَّدٌثقة حافظ
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