Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 40460 — Reports on Uthman (may Allah be)

It is narrated from Hanzalah bin Qanan Abu Muhammad, who was from Banu Amir bin Dhuhl, that he said: Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) looked out at us from a skylight while he was besieged, and said: Are the two sons of Majduh among you? They were not there, for they were asleep. They were woken and both came, and Sayyiduna Uthman said to them: I adjure you both by Allah, do you both not know that Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Rabi'ah are wicked, or he said: treacherous, and I cannot give them the same stipend as a people who come from a month's journey away; their place of migration is beside the rope of their tent (that is, they migrate from close by)? Then in one morning I increased their stipend by five hundred each, until I joined them to the others. They both said: Yes indeed (it was so). Sayyiduna Uthman said: I adjure you by Allah, do you not know that you came to me and both of you said: Kindah are only a meal for one head (that is, they are few), Rabi'ah are the head, and al-Ash'ath bin Qays has eaten them up; so I removed him and appointed you both as governors over them? They said: Yes indeed, it is so. Sayyiduna Uthman said: O Allah! If they are ungrateful for my kindness and change my favour, then O Allah, do not make them pleased with any leader, and do not make any leader pleased with them.