Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 40547 — Reports on Uthman (may Allah be)

It is reported from Khalifah bin Sa'id that I saw Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) going along one of the roads of Madinah, and he was saying: Keep enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong before the wicked among you are given power over you; then the best of you will supplicate against them, but their supplication will not be answered. Then a surging crowd pressed upon him and he was taken by his upper arms. Then he said: I will not die until the rule of young boys reaches me.