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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
  1. Musaddad
  2. ʿAbdullāh
  3. Rubayḥ
  4. Abū Mūsá
  5. ʿAbdullāh b. Abū Sufyān
  6. 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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