Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ - Shams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi - (راشدون/209)

Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

al-Hasan; so he and the two men with him agreed on a plan. They scaled a wall, slipped into the house, and no one inside noticed, for they moved across the rooftops. No one was with ʿUthmān except his wife.

Muhammad entered, seized ʿUthmān by the beard, and said, “By Allah, had your father seen you in my grasp he would have been distressed.” At that, his grip slackened, whereupon the two other men leapt upon ʿUthmān and killed him. They fled the way they had come. The woman then screamed, but the commotion in the house drowned out her cries. She climbed up to the people and informed them, and al-Hasan, al-Husayn, and others entered and found him lying slaughtered.

When the news reached ʿAlī, Ṭalḥah, and al-Zubayr, they rushed out—beside themselves—entered the house, and saw him slain. ʿAlī cried out, “How was he killed while you were standing at the door?” He slapped al-Hasan, struck al-Husayn on the chest, cursed Ibn al-Zubayr and Ibn Ṭalḥah, and left angrily for his home.

People then hurried to him, eager to pledge allegiance, but he said, “The matter is not yours; it belongs to the veterans of Badr. Whomever they approve is the caliph.” None of the Badrites remained without coming to ʿAlī. The first to pledge was Ṭalḥah, verbally, and Saʿd, by taking his hand. ʿAlī then went to the mosque and mounted the pulpit; Ṭalḥah was the first to ascend after him and placed his hand in ʿAlī’s. Then al-Zubayr, Saʿd, and all the Companions pledged. ʿAlī came down, summoned the people, and demanded Marwān, but Marwān and his relatives fled.

ʿĀʾisha came out weeping, crying, “ʿUthmān has been killed!” ʿAlī went to ʿUthmān’s wife and asked, “Who killed him?” She replied, “I do not know,” and she told him what Muhammad ibn Abī Bakr had done. ʿAlī questioned Muhammad, who said, “She is lying. By Allah, I did enter intending to kill him, but my father came to mind, so I withdrew in repentance to Allah. By Allah, I neither killed him nor restrained him.” She said, “He tells the truth, but he brought in the two men who killed him.”

Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿAlqama ibn Waqāṣ narrated, on the authority of his father, from his grandfather

الحسن، فاتفق هو وصاحباه، وتسوروا من دار، حتى دخلوا عليه، ولا يعلم أحد من أحل الدار؛ لأنهم كانوا فوق البيوت، ولم يكن مع عثمان إلا امرأته. فدخل محمد فأخذ بلحيته، قال: والله لو رآك أبوك لساءه مكانك مني فتراخت يده، ووثب الرجلان عليه فقتلاه، وهربوا من حيث دخلوا، ثم صرخت المرأة، فلم يسمع صراخها لما في الدار من الجلبة، فصعدت إلى الناس وأخبرتهم، فدخل الحسن والحسين وغيرهما فوجوده مذبوحا. وبلغ عليا وطلحة والزبير الخبر، فخرجوا -وقد ذهبت عقولهم- ودخلوا فرأوه مذبوحا، وقال علي: كيف قتل وأنتم على الباب؟ ولطم الحسن وضرب صدر الحسين، وشتم ابن الزبير، وابن طلحة، وخرج غضبان إلى منزله. فجاء الناس يهرعون إليه ليبايعوه، قال: ليس ذاك إليكم، إنما ذاك إلى أهل بدر، فمن رضوه فهو خليفة. فلم يبق أحد من البدريين إلا أتى عليا، فكان أول من بايعه طلحة بلسانه، وسعد بيده، ثم خرج إلى المسجد فصعد المنبر، فكان أول من صعد إليه طلحة، فبايعه بيده، ثم بايعه الزبير وسعد والصحابة جميعا، ثم نزل فدعا الناس، وطلب مروان، فهرب منه هو وأقاربه. وخرجت عائشة اكية تقول: قتل عثمان، وجاء علي إلى امرأة عثمان، فقال: من قتله؟ قالت: لا أدري، وأخبرته بما صنع محمد بن أبي بكر فسأله علي، فقال: تكذب، قد والله دخلت عليه، وأنا أريد قتله، فذكر لي أبي، فقمت وأنا تائب إلى الله والله ما قتلته ولا أمسكته، فقالت: صدق، ولكنه أدخل اللذين قتلاه. وقال محمد بن عمرو بن علقمة بن وقاص، عن أبيه، عن جده،