Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 39872 — Reports on the caliphate and killing

It is narrated from Abu Qilabah that there was a man of Quraysh called Thumamah, who was in charge of San'a. When the news of the killing of Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) reached him, he wept and kept weeping for a long time. When he recovered, he said: "Today prophethood, or he said: the caliphate, has been taken away from the Ummah of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). (From now on) there will be kingship and tyranny, and whoever overpowers anything will devour it."