مصنف ابن ابي شيبه
Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah
كتاب الفضائلBook of Virtues
ما ذكر في فضل عثمان ابن عفان ﵁Narrations Mentioning the Virtue of Uthman ibn Affan (RA)
Hadith 34221
٣٤٢٢١ - حدثنا أبو معاوية عن الأعمش عن خيثمة عن مسروق عن عائشة قال: قالت حين قتل عثمان: تركتموه كالثوب النقي من الدنس ثم قربتموه فذبحتموه كما يذبح الكبش، (إنما) (١) كان هذا قبل هذا، قال: فقال لها مسروق: (هذا عملك) (٢) أنت كتبت إلى أناس تأمرينهم بالخروج، قال: فقالت عائشة: لا والذي آمن به المؤمنون وكفر به الكافرون، ما كتبت إليهم (بسوداء) (٣) في بيضاء حتى جلست مجلسي هذا (٤).
Hazrat Masruq (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates that when Hazrat Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) was killed, at that time Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) said: "You people have abandoned him just as filth is abandoned on a clean garment. Then you brought him close and slaughtered him as a ram is slaughtered. Why did this not happen before?" So Hazrat Masruq (may Allah have mercy on him) said to her: "This happened because of your action, that you wrote letters to the people ordering them to rebel!" The narrator says: Upon this, Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) said: "No! By the One in whom all believers have faith and with whom the disbelievers disbelieved, I have not written anything with black (ink) on white (paper) until I sat in my place." Imam A'mash (may Allah have mercy on him) says: Thus, their opinion was that all this was written on her tongue.
