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al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 116

✧ The lineage of Uthman b. Affan

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حَدَّثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ الْعَطَّارُ الْبَصْرِيُّ ثنا أَبُو كَامِلٍ الْجَحْدَرِيُّ ثنا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ أنا ابْنُ عَوْنٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ قَالَ

أَخْبَرَنِي وَثَّابٌ وَكَانَ مِمَّنْ أَدْرَكَهُ عِتْقُ عُثْمَانَ ؓ فَكَانَ يَقُومُ بَيْنَ يَدَيْ عُثْمَانَ قَالَ بَعَثَنِي عُثْمَانُ فَدَعَوْتُ لَهُ الْأَشْتَرَ فَقَالَ ابْنُ عَوْنٍ فَأَظُنُّهُ قَالَ فَطَرَحْتُ لِأَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وِسَادَةً وَلَهُ وِسَادَةٌ فَقَالَ «يَا أَشْتَرُ مَا يُرِيدُ النَّاسُ مِنِّي؟» قَالَ ثَلَاثًا مَا مِنْ إِحْدَاهُنِّ بُدٌّ قَالَ «مَا هُنَّ؟» قَالَ يُخَيِّرُونَكَ بَيْنَ أَنْ تَخْلَعَ لَهُمْ أَمْرَهُمْ فَتَقُولَ هَذَا أَمْرُكُمْ فَاخْتَارُوا لَهُ مَنْ شِئْتُمْ وَبَيْنَ أَنْ تَقُصَّ مِنْ نَفْسِكَ فَإِنْ أَبَيْتَ هَذَيْنِ فَإِنَّ الْقَوْمَ قَاتِلُوكَ قَالَ «مَا مِنْ إِحْدَاهُنَّ بُدٌّ؟» قَالَ مَا مِنْ إِحْدَاهُنَّ بُدٌّ قَالَ «أَمَّا أَنْ أَخْلَعَ لَهُمْ أَمْرَهُمْ فَمَا كُنْتُ لِأَخْلَعَ سِرْبَالًا سُرْبِلْتُهُ» قَالَ وَقَالَ الْحَسَنُ قَالَ وَاللهِ لَأَنْ أُقَدَّمَ فَيُضْرَبَ عُنُقِي أَحَبُّ إِلَيَّ مِنْ أَنْ أَخْلَعَ أَمْرَ أُمَّةِ مُحَمَّدٍ ﷺ بَعْضُهَا عَلَى بَعْضٍ قَالَ ابْنُ عَوْنٍ وَهَذَا أَشْبَهُ بِكَلَامِ عُثْمَانَ وَأَمَّا أَنْ أَقُصَّ مِنْ نَفْسِي فَوَاللهِ لَقَدْ عَلِمْتُ أَنَّ صَاحِبَيْ بَيْنَ يَدَيْ كَانَا يُعَاقَبَانِ وَمَا يَقُومُ بَدَنِي للقِصَاصِ وَأَمَّا أَنْ تَقْتُلُونِي فَوَاللهِ لَئِنْ قَتَلْتُمُونِي لَا تُحَابُّونَ بَعْدِي أَبَدًا وَلَا تُقَاتِلُونَ بَعْدِي عَدُوًّا جَمِيعًا أَبَدًا فَقَامَ الْأَشْتَرُ فَانْطَلَقَ فَمَكَثْنَا فَقُلْنَا لَعَلَّ النَّاسَ إِذْ جَاءَ رَجُلٌ كَأَنَّهُ ذِئْبٌ فَاطَّلَعَ مِنْ بَابٍ ثُمَّ رَجَعَ ثُمَّ جَاءَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ فِي ثَلَاثَةَ عَشَرَ رَجُلًا حَتَّى انْتَهَوْا إِلَى عُثْمَانَ ؓ فَأَخَذَ بِلِحْيَتِهِ فَقَالَ بِهَا وَقَالَ بِهَا حَتَّى سَمِعْتُ وَقْعَ أَضْرَاسِهِ وَقَالَ مَا أَغْنَى عَنْكَ مُعَاوِيَةُ مَا أَغْنَى عَنْكَ ابْنُ عَامِرٍ مَا أَغْنَى عَنْكَ كُتُبُكَ قَالَ «أَرْسِلْ لِحْيَتِي يَا ابْنَ أَخِي أَرْسِلْ لِحْيَتِي يَا ابْنَ أَخِي» قَالَ فَأَنَا رَأَيْتُهُ اسْتَدْعَى رَجُلًا مِنَ الْقَوْمِ بِعَيْنِهِ فَقَامَ إِلَيْهِ بِمِشْقَصٍ حَتَّى وَجَأَهُ بِهِ فِي رَأْسَهِ قُلْتُ ثُمَّ مَهْ قَالَ ثُمَّ تَعَانُوا عَلَيْهِ وَاللهِ حَتَّى قَتَلُوهُ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Sulaymān b. al-Ḥasan al-ʿAṭṭār al-Baṣrī
  2. Abū Kāmil al-Jaḥdarī
  3. Ismāʿīl b. Ibrāhīm
  4. Ibn ʿAwn
  5. al-Ḥasan
  6. And Thhāb Wakān

✧ Waththab, who was one of those whom Uthman ؓ had freed and who used to stand before Uthman, informed me: Uthman sent me and I summoned al-Ashtar for him. Ibn Awn said: I think he said: I placed a cushion for the Commander of the Faithful, and he had a cushion. He said: "O Ashtar, what do the people want from me?" He said: Three things, one of which is unavoidable. He said: "What are they?" He said: They give you the choice between handing over their affair to them, saying, 'This is your affair, so choose for it whom you will,' and between exacting retribution from yourself. If you refuse these two, then the people will fight you. He said: "Is one of them unavoidable?" He said: One of them is unavoidable. He said: "As for handing over their affair to them, I would never remove a garment with which I have been clothed." He said: And al-Hasan said: By Allah, to be brought forward and have my neck struck is dearer to me than to remove the affair of the Ummah of Muhammad ﷺ from one another. Ibn Awn said: This is more like the words of Uthman. As for exacting retribution from myself, by Allah, I know that my two companions before me were punished, and my body cannot withstand retaliation. As for killing me, by Allah, if you kill me, you will never love one another after me, and you will never fight an enemy together after me. Then al-Ashtar stood up and left. We waited and said: Perhaps the people... Then a man came who looked like a wolf, peered in from a door, and then went back. Then Muhammad b. Abi Bakr came with thirteen men and reached Uthman ؓ. He grabbed his beard and said with it, and said with it, until I heard the chattering of his teeth, and said: What did Muawiya avail you? What did Ibn Amir avail you? What did your letters avail you? He said: "Let go of my beard, O son of my brother. Let go of my beard, O son of my brother." He said: I saw him summon a man from the group with his eye, and the man went to him with a small spear and struck him with it on his head. I said: Then what? He said: Then they all attacked him, by Allah, until they killed him.

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