from some of their leaders. They then brought him out with only a small number of the Companions, among them (1) Ḥakīm ibn Ḥizām, Huwayṭib ibn ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā, Abū al-Jahm ibn Ḥudhayfah, and Niyār (2) ibn Mukrim al-Aslamī, together with Jubayr ibn Muṭʿim, Zayd ibn Thābit, Kaʿb ibn Mālik, Ṭalḥah, al-Zubayr, and ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, as well as a group of his followers and womenfolk, including his two wives—Nāʾilah and Umm al-Banīn bint ʿUtbah ibn Ḥuṣayn—and some children. This summary draws on the reports of al-Wāqidī and Sayf ibn ʿUmar al-Tamīmī.
Ahmad (3) narrated: “ʿAbd al-Razzāq told us, from Maʿmar, from Qatādah, who said: ‘Al-Zubayr led the funeral prayer over ʿUthmān and buried him, for ʿUthmān had entrusted that duty to him in his will.’”
ʿAbd Allāh (4) transmitted—through Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Furrūkh, from his father—(5): “I witnessed ʿUthmān being buried in the very clothes stained with his blood; he was not washed.” Another account states that a group of his servants carried him on a door after washing and shrouding him. Some claimed he was neither washed nor shrouded, but the sound view is the first.
According to one report, the funeral prayer was led by Jubayr ibn Muṭʿim; other reports name al-Zubayr ibn al-ʿAwwām, Ḥakīm ibn Ḥizām, Marwān ibn al-Ḥakam, or al-Miswar ibn Makhramah. Some of the Khārijites objected, wanting to stone him or throw him from his bier, and even resolved to bury him in the Jewish cemetery of Dayr Silaʿ—until ʿAlī (may Allah be pleased with him) sent word forbidding them.
Those who bore his bier were Ḥakīm ibn Ḥizām—though another narration names Marwān ibn al-Ḥakam, and yet another al-Miswar ibn Makhramah—together with Abū al-Jahm ibn Ḥudhayfah, Niyār ibn Mukrim, and Jubayr ibn Muṭʿim.
Al-Wāqidī (6) reports that when the bier was set down at the place where funeral prayers are offered, some of the Anṣār tried to prevent the prayer. Abū al-Jahm ibn Ḥudhayfah said, “Bury him, for Allah and His angels have already prayed over him.” They then said, “He must not be buried in al-Baqīʿ; bury him instead beyond the wall,” so they laid him to rest east of al-Baqīʿ beneath a cluster of date-palms.
Al-Wāqidī (7) also relates that ʿUmayr ibn Ḍābiʾ leapt onto the bier while it was set out for prayer, broke one of his ribs, and said, “You kept Ḍābiʾ imprisoned until he died.” Al-Ḥajjāj later executed this very ʿUmayr ibn Ḍābiʾ.
Al-Bukhārī records in al-Tārīkh (8): “Mūsā ibn Ismāʿīl narrated to us, from ʿĪsā ibn Minhāl; Ghālib narrated to us, from Muḥammad ibn Sīrīn, who said: ‘I was circumambulating the Kaʿbah when I heard a man saying, “O Allah, forgive me, though I do not think You will forgive me.”’”