مشكوة المصابيح
Mishkat al-Masabih
كتاب المناقب
The Book of Merits
(شَهَادَةُ كَوْنِ حَضْرَةِ عُثْمَانَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ عَلَى الحَقِّ فِي الفِتَنِ)
(Testimony of Hazrat Uthman, may Allah be pleased with him, being on the truth during the times of fitna)
Hadith 6076
وَعَن مرّة بن كَعْب قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَذكر الْفِتَن فقر بهَا فَمَرَّ رَجُلٌ مُقَنَّعٌ فِي ثَوْبٍ فَقَالَ: «هَذَا يَوْمئِذٍ على هدى» فَقُمْتُ إِلَيْهِ فَإِذَا هُوَ عُثْمَانُ بْنُ عَفَّانَ. قَالَ: فَأَقْبَلْتُ عَلَيْهِ بِوَجْهِهِ. فَقُلْتُ: هَذَا؟ قَالَ: «نَعَمْ» . رَوَاهُ التِّرْمِذِيُّ وَابْنُ مَاجَهْ وَقَالَ التِّرْمِذِيُّ: هَذَا حَدِيث حسن صَحِيح
Murra b. Ka'b said: I heard God's messenger when he mentioned the civil wars and their nearness; and when a man who was veiled by a garment passed by, he said, "On that day this man will be rightly guided." I got up and went to him and found he was `Uthman b. `Affan, then making him face the Prophet I asked if this was the man, and he replied, "Yes." Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah transmitted it, Tirmidhi saying this is a hasan sahih tradition.
