Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 40508 — Reports on Uthman (may Allah be)

Mundhir al-Thawri said: We were sitting with Muhammad bin al-Hanafiyyah when someone spoke ill of Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him). Muhammad bin al-Hanafiyyah said: "Stop." We said: "But your noble father (Sayyiduna Ali, may Allah be pleased with him) used to speak ill of him." He said: "He never spoke ill of Sayyiduna Uthman. If he had spoken ill of him, he would have done so on the day I came to him when the collectors of charity had come to him. Sayyiduna Ali said: 'Take this document of the collectors and give it to Sayyiduna Uthman.' So I took it and went to Sayyiduna Uthman, but he said: 'I have no need of it.' So I returned to Sayyiduna Ali and told him what Sayyiduna Uthman had said. Sayyiduna Ali said: 'Put it back in its place.' If Sayyiduna Ali had ever reproached him, he would have done so on that day."