Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ - Shams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi - (2/322)

Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

the two of you have. By Allah, if Allah keeps me alive, I will see to it that the widows of Iraq never again find themselves in want.”

No fourth [year] had elapsed before he was struck down. (1)

Ibn Saʿd said: When ʿUthmān was killed and Ibn Kurayz (2) withdrew from Basra, ʿAlī appointed ʿUthmān ibn Ḥunayf as its governor. He remained in office until Ṭalḥah and al-Zubayr arrived; he fought them, with Ḥukaym ibn Jabalah al-ʿAbdī at his side, and then they agreed to a truce until ʿAlī should come.

Later, on a night of wind and darkness, the followers of Ṭalḥah attacked: they killed the guards of ʿUthmān ibn Ḥunayf, forced their way in to him, tore out his beard and even the lashes of his eyes, and said, “Were it not for our pact, we would have killed you.”

He replied, “My brother is ʿAlī’s governor over Medina; if you kill me, he will kill every relative of Ṭalḥah and al-Zubayr who is in Medina.”

Thereupon he was imprisoned, and they seized the public treasury.

He was known by the kunya Abū ʿAbdullāh.

He died during the caliphate of Muʿāwiyah, leaving descendants.

ʿUthmān has a mildly weak hadith recorded in the Musnad of Ahmad. (3)

(1) Its chain of transmission is sound; al-Bukhari also records it, 7/49, in “The Virtues of the Prophet’s Companions,” chapter “The Story of the Pledge and the Consensus on Uthman ibn Affan.” (2) He is Abd Allah ibn Amir ibn Kurayz, the maternal cousin of the Commander of the Faithful Uthman. Uthman appointed him governor of Basra, succeeding Abu Musa al-Ashari, in the year 29 AH. (3) At 4/138 two hadiths are cited. The first is the report of the blind man whose sight was restored through the supplication the Prophet taught him; the man carried out the Prophet’s instructions, and the hadith is authentic. It is also transmitted by al-Tirmidhi (3578) and Ibn Majah (1385) and judged sound by al-Tirmidhi, Ibn Khuzaymah, and al-Hakim (1/313), a judgment the author endorses—so I do not think this is the narration meant here. The second hadith is via Ibn Lahiʿah: “Al-Harith ibn Yazid told us, from al-Baraʾ ibn Uthman al-Ansari, from Haniʾ ibn Muʿawiyah al-Sadfi, who said: I performed the pilgrimage during the time of Uthman ibn Affan….”

لَدَيْكُمَا، وَاللهِ لَئِنْ سَلَّمَنِي اللهُ لأَدَعَنَّ أَرَامِلَ العِرَاقِ لاَ يَحْتَجْنَ. فَمَا أَتَتْ عَلَيْهِ رَابِعَةٌ حَتَّى أُصِيْبَ (١) . قَالَ ابْنُ سَعْدٍ: قُتِلَ عُثْمَانُ، وَفَارَقَ ابْنُ كُرَيْزٍ (٢) البَصْرَةَ، فَبَعَثَ عَلِيٌّ عَلَيْهَا عُثْمَانَ بنَ حُنَيْفٍ وَالِياً، فَلَمْ يَزَلْ حَتَّى قَدِمَ عَلَيْهِ طَلْحَةُ وَالزُّبَيْرُ، فَقَاتَلَهُمَا وَمَعَهُ حُكَيْمُ بنُ جَبَلَةَ العَبْدِيُّ، ثُمَّ تَوَادَعُوا حَتَّى يَقْدَمَ عَلِيٌّ. ثُمَّ كَانَتْ لَيْلَةٌ ذَاتُ رِيْحٍ وَظُلْمَةٍ، فَأَقْبَلَ أَصْحَابُ طَلْحَةَ، فَقَتَلُوا حَرَسَ عُثْمَانَ بنَ حُنَيْفٍ، وَدَخَلُوا عَلَيْهِ، فَنَتَفُوا لِحْيَتَهُ، وَجُفُوْنَ عَيْنَيْهِ، وَقَالُوا: لَوْلاَ العَهْدُ لَقَتَلْنَاكَ. فَقَالَ: إِنَّ أَخِي وَالٍ لِعَلِيٍّ عَلَى المَدِيْنَةِ، وَلَو قَتَلْتُمُوْنِي لَقَتَلَ مَنْ بِالمَدِيْنَةِ مِنْ أَقَارِبِ طَلْحَةَ وَالزُّبَيْرِ. ثُمَّ سُجِنَ، وَأَخَذُوا بَيْتَ المَالِ. وَكَانَ يُكْنَى أَبَا عَبْدِ اللهِ. تُوُفِّيَ: فِي خِلاَفَةِ مُعَاوِيَةَ، وَلَهُ عَقِبٌ. وَلِعُثْمَانَ حَدِيْثٌ لَيِّنٌ فِي (مُسْنَدِ أَحْمَدَ) (٣) .

(١) إسناده صحيح، وأخرجه البخاري ٧ / ٤٩ في فضائل أصحاب النبي ﷺ: باب قصة البيعة والاتفاق على عثمان بن عفان. (٢) هو عبد الله بن عامر بن كريز ابن خال أمير المؤمنين عثمان ﵁، ولي البصرة لعثمان بعد أبي موسى الأشعري سنة تسع وعشرين. (٣) ٤ / ١٣٨ وفيه حديثان: الأول حديث الاعمى الذي رد بصره بالدعاء الذي علمه إياه ﷺ، وقد فعل ما أمره به، وهو حديث صحيح، أخرجه أيضا الترمذي (٣٥٧٨) ، وابن ماجة (١٣٨٥) ، وصححه الترمذي، وابن خزيمة، والحاكم ١ / ٣١٣، ووافقه المؤلف على تصحيحه، فما أظن أنه يعنيه هنا. وأما الحديث الثاني، فهو من طريق ابن لهيعة، حدثنا الحارث بن يزيد، عن البراء بن عثمان الأنصاري، عن هانئ بن معاويه الصدفي حدثه، قال: حججت زمان عثمان بن عفان، =