So I said, “Servant of Allah, I have never heard anyone say what you are saying.”
He replied, “I had made a covenant with Allah that, should I ever be able to slap ʿUthmān’s face, I would indeed slap it. When he was killed and laid out upon his bier in the house and people were coming in to pray over him, I entered as though to perform the prayer. Finding a moment alone, I lifted the cloth from his face and beard and struck him—and my right hand instantly withered.”
Ibn Sīrīn said, “I saw it: it was withered like a dry stick.”

They then brought out (1) ʿUthmān’s two servants who had been killed in the house, Ṣabīḥ and Najīḥ (may Allah be pleased with him), and buried them beside him in the enclosure of Kawkab. It is also reported that the Khārijites would not allow them to be buried, dragging them by their legs until they threw them on the pavement, where the dogs (2) devoured them. Later, during his governorship, Muʿāwiyah took special care of ʿUthmān’s grave: he raised the wall between it and al-Baqīʿ and ordered the people to bury their dead around it (until it merged with the Muslim cemetery).

[Description of his appearance (may Allah be pleased with him)]
He (may Allah be pleased with him) was handsome of face, with a delicate complexion, a large (3) beard, of moderate stature, broad-boned, wide-shouldered, with abundant hair on his head, fine teeth, and a slight (4) olive hue. Some said that his face bore traces of smallpox (may Allah be pleased with him).

Al-Zuhrī said: “He was handsome of face and teeth, medium in height, balding, slightly (5) bandy-legged; he used to dye his hair yellow, had bound his teeth with gold, and the hair on his forearms was thick.”

Imām Aḥmad (6) narrated: “ʿAbd al-Ṣamad told us, Sālim Abū Jumayyaʿ told us, al-Ḥasan—mentioning ʿUthmān and his intense modesty—said: ‘He would be alone in the house with the door closed yet would not lift his garment so the water could flow over him; his modesty would not allow him to straighten his back.’”

ʿAbd Allāh (7) reported: “Ziyād ibn Ayyūb told us, Hushaym told us. Abū al-Miqdām related, on the authority of al-Ḥasan ibn Abī al-Ḥasan, who said: I entered the mosque and there was ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān leaning on his cloak. Two water-carriers came to him disputing, and he judged between them. I then approached him and observed him: he was a man of handsome visage with smallpox marks on his cheeks, and the hair on his arms was thick.”

Wāqid ibn ʿAbd Allāh (8) said: “Someone who had seen ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān told me that he had capped his teeth with gold.”