(Tarikh A'tham Kufi and Majalisul Mu'minin) Nurullah...

(Tarikh A'tham Kufi and Majalisul Mu'minin) Nurullah Shustari writes that as soon as Abu Dharr saw Caliph Uthman before himself he used to recite the Qur'anic verse: "Fear the day when the Fire of Hell will blaze up and their foreheads will be branded”, by which he meant to say, “O Uthman! It is wrong that you do not give to the poor the riches you hoard, but give to your kinsmen if you ever give.

The day is not far off when your flanks and foreheads will be branded in Hell", (Majalisul Mu'minin, p. 94) According to Tabari once Ali addressed Uthman and said, "You have given up following your predecessors, and now you simply concentrate upon the Children of Umayyah and your own kinsfolk. You have completely ignored the poor. This is not right at all.

From where have you got the right of unlawful distribution of the property of Muslims?" Uthman grew angry at this talk of Ali and retorted, "Those who went before us did wrong to their relatives. I don't want to do that. I am giving to my poor relatives whatever I can" Ali said, "Are they only rightful people whom you give thousand of dirhams from the Public Treasury of the Muslims?

Is there no other poor man?" [^2] Historians such as Abul Hasan Ali bin Husayn bin Ali al-Mas'udi (died 346 A.H.), Ahmad bin Abi Ya'qub and Ishaq bin Ja'far bin Wahhab bin Wazeh Ya'qubi (died 278 A.H.), and Muhammad bin Sa'd al-Zahri al-Basri, Katib al-Abbasi al-Waqidi (died 230 A.H.) narrates this incident thus: “When Abu Dharr was presented in the court of Uthman he said to Abu Dharr, “I am informed that you have told the people the hadith of the Prophet that when the number of males of Bani Umayyah rises to full thirty, they will consider the cities of Allah as their booty and the slaves of Allah their own slaves and maids, and they will adopt the religion of Allah as a fraud".

Abu Dharr said, "Yes, I have heard the Prophet say so". Uthman asked the audience of the court, "Have you heard the Prophet say so?" They said, "No". Then he called Ali and said, "O Abul Hasan! Do you certify this hadith?" Ali said, "Yes". Uthman said, "What is the proof of the authenticity of this hadith?" Ali replied, "The Holy Prophet's statement that there is no speaker, under the sky and upon the earth, who is more truthful than Abu Dharr".

Abu Dharr had stayed in Medina only for a few days after this incident when Uthman sent word to him, saying "By Allah, You will certainly be banished from Medina"[^3].