Usman said...

Usman said, ‘O Abu Al-Hassan -asws , but is there with you -asws and with these companions of yours -asws a Hadith regarding myself?’ Ali -asws said: ‘Yes, I -asws heard the Messenger of Allah -saww curse you twice, then did not seek Forgiveness from Allah -azwj for you after having cursed you’. Usman got angry, then said, ‘What is it to me and what is it to you -asws that you -asws do not leave me to myself, neither in the era of the Prophet -saww , nor after him -saww .

Ali -asws said: ‘Yes, may Allah -azwj Grind your nose’ (Humiliate you). Usman said, ‘By Allah -azwj , I have heard from the Messenger of Allah -saww , he -saww said that: ‘Al-Zubeyr will be killed as an apostate from Islam’. Salman -ar reports, ‘Ali -asws said to me -ar – just between me -ar and him -asws – Usman spoke the truth, and that he will pay allegiance to me -asws after the killing of Usman, and will break the allegiance and will be killed as an apostate .

[14] فعثمان على ما كان عليه خير منهما. ولقد قال منذ أيام قولا رققت له وأعجبتني مقالته. بينما أنا قاعد عنده في بيته إذ أتته عائشة وحفصة تطلبان ميراثهما من ضياع رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله وأمواله التي بيده، فقال: (لا والله ولا كرامة لكما ولا نعمت عنه ولكن أجيز شهادتكما على أنفسكما. فإنكما شهدتما عند أبويكما أنكما سمعتما من رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله يقول: (النبي لا يورث، ما ترك فهو صدقة).

ثم لقنتما أعرابيا جلفا يبول على عقبيه ويتطهر ببوله (مالك بن أوس بن الحدثان) فشهد معكما، ولم يكن في أصحاب رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله من المهاجرين ولا من الأنصار أحد شهد بذلك غيركما وغير عرابي. Ali Amir ul-Momineen -asws ratified a comment of Usman As for Usman, he was better than the two of them. He said some words, days ago, that I -asws sympathised with and his speech pleased me -asws .

I -asws was seated in his presence at his house when Aisha and Hafsa came over seeking their inheritance from the loss of the Messenger of Allah -saww , and their wealth which was in his hands. He said, ‘No, by Allah -azwj , there is no honour for the two of you, nor any enjoyment from it, but I have been permitted by the very testimonies that you two bore against yourselves.

The two of you bore testified to your own two fathers that you two had heard the Messenger of Allah -saww saying: ‘The Prophet -saww does not bequeath, whatsoever that he -saww leaves behind is charity’.