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Uthman Ibn Affan (ra) - Part 2: The Possessor of Two Lights
Uthman (ra) had many qualities that set him apart, and those qualities shined brightest when he was slandered and under siege.
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This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings. As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh everyone. Bismillah walhamdulillah wa salatu wassalamu ala rasulillah wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa man wala. So inshallah ta'ala we continue now with the virtues of Uthman ibn Affan radiAllahu ta'ala anhu. And subhanAllah it's very hard when you're talking about specifically khulafa' rashideen may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala be pleased with them all to just narrow it down to their time with the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam and the qualities that we should draw from them because there are so many virtues and there's so much to learn from them and their contributions literally take up thousands of pages within books in our Islamic history for us to really gain an appreciation for them. But as we said Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala anhu is someone who often gets neglected and left out and so what I wanted to do was just to focus on how his virtues particularly tie to the significant moments in his life especially with the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam in the capacity of being amongst the firsts. And so one particular incident that takes place with Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala anhu is unique specifically to him. And this is the incident of bay'atu ar-ridwan of the pledge of ar-ridwan under the tree in Hudaybiyyah. And we all know the story of Hudaybiyyah that the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam and the companions were on their way to Mecca. Instead Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wrote for them fathan mubina, a great conquest in that they would enter into a treaty that would give them the ability to grow their da'wah and would actually facilitate so much greater good than had they been able to go to Mecca in that particular year. Now in the capacity of Hudaybiyyah as they were waiting and we know that many of the companions just wanted to go forward and there was at this point such a love for Allah and his Messenger salallahu alayhi wasalam, such a strength, such a connection that they didn't fear anything.
And so they wanted to go forward as we know from the famous incident with the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam and Umar bin al-Khattab radiAllahu ta'ala anhu in particular. And the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam shaving his head at the advice of Umm Salama radiAllahu ta'ala anhu to let the companions know that there would be no Umrah that particular year. Now Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala anhu was sent to Mecca as an ambassador to try to negotiate with Quraysh. And this is significant because obviously it takes into consideration number one the protection that he would have from his tribe. Number two the relationships that Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala anhu had established prior to Islam. And obviously there was going to be some level of reverence for Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala anhu as a person on the part of the people of Mecca who loved him so much before Islam. And when you see Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala anhu go forward, something happens. Uthman is there and he is negotiating on behalf of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam and on behalf of the Muslims and they held Uthman up in Mecca. As they held him up by delaying these negotiations and I'm paraphrasing the incident obviously you could read about the whole bay'at al-ridwan but word gets back to the Muslims, a rumor gets back to the Muslims that Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala anhu has been killed. And subhanAllah I want you to contrast this by the way, this moment to the moment that he will actually be killed unfortunately not by the mushrikeen but by people who said la ilaha illallah. I mean subhanAllah I mean this, imagine the emotions that were stirred in the hearts of these people because of their love for Uthman and of course their love for Allah subhanAllah ta'ala that caused them to love Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala anhu so much beyond his character. At that point the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam takes a pledge and this was a pledge of death. A pledge of death.
SubhanAllah 1400 people, 1400 people, 1400 years ago go into a pledge with the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam with only one hypocrite abstaining that they will go forth to death. That they will march towards Mecca to death because of the murder of Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala anhu or they had heard of the murder of Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala anhu and they take this pledge one by one under the tree with the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam and Allah subhanAllah ta'ala says laqad radiAllahu anil mu'mineena idh yubayi'oonaka tahtashajara that Allah was pleased with the believers when they took this pledge with you under the tree and Allah subhanAllah ta'ala testifies to the goodness in their heart faAAalimama fee quloobihim Allah knew what was in their heart faanzala ssakeena ta'alayhim waathabahum fathan qareeba so Allah subhanAllah ta'ala descended upon them tranquility and guaranteed for them a great reward and a conquest to come soon. The Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam said to those 1400 people about them he said antum khayru ahlil ard you are the best people on the face of the earth subhanAllah what a beautiful way to be praised by the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam antum khayru ahlil ard so as the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam was taking their pledge one by one under that tree to march forward to Mecca when the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam had finished taking all of their pledges. Remember how Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala anhu was not present at Badr but the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam counted him amongst the veterans of Badr because of his intention and because of the circumstances that held him back. Here the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam he takes his hand and he clasps it with the other hand and he says hadha anni wa hadha an Uthman this is for me and this is Uthman radiAllahu anhu this is the hand of Uthman radiAllahu anhu subhanAllah you know what
an incredible way of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam showing his love for you to represent you with his own hand subhanAllah what an amazing blessing right how many people would have loved to be the hand of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam that day that the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam represented Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala anhu with his own hand and this is something that only belongs to Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala anhu so just like he wasn't at Badr but he has the full reward he wasn't at Hudaibiya at Bayatul Ridwan but the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam counted it for him even though the entire cause was about him radiAllahu ta'ala anhu now what was happening in Mecca at the time as they were holding Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala anhu up one of the things that they said to him they said that he can perform tawaf around the Kaaba in peace that you know we'll let Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala anhu fulfill what he wants to fulfill but the Muslims can't come forward okay and you know Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala anhu refused saying that I will not perform tawaf before the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam so he held back subhanAllah out of his love for the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam and some of the companions had even mentioned to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam what if Uthman radiAllahu alayhi wasalam stays and Uthman is able to perform the tawaf the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam knowing Uthman radiAllahu anhu the one who he represented with his hand his son in law now twice the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam said no matter how long he stays in Mecca he will not perform tawaf until I perform tawaf I know him that this is not Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala anhu the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam was speaking to the character and the goodness of Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala anhu and of course as it turned out Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala anhu was not killed in Mecca Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala protected him but Allah preserved the reward of all of those companions that took the bay'ah with the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala preserved the honor of Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala anhu who was represented by the hand of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam on that day
now other than that and what we covered last week what I want us to turn to was you know this theme in the life of Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala anhu with the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam telling him that he's going to be murdered and subhanAllah you know I was just counting through the sources there are no less than ten times that the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam told Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala anhu the most beloved person to Quraysh the most beloved of Mecca the kindest and most generous of the Muslims I mean who would want to harm Uthman right over ten times the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam telling Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala anhu that one day you are going to be killed and this is this is significant because it's not one time and you know Uthman radiAllahu anhu knows this that no matter what happens in his life now that this is going to happen to him and so I want to cover a few of these incidents because they are significant to understand you know how things are proceeding the mindset of Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala anhu and how he's going to approach life after the Messenger salallahu alayhi wasalam and it starts off with a beautiful incident from Abu Musa al-Ashari radiAllahu ta'ala anhu who said that I was in the company of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam in one of the gardens of Medina you know everyone would go looking for the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam every day so you go to the souq you go to the baqi you go to the masjid actually in opposite order right you go to the masjid you don't find him there you go to the baqi to the graveyard you go to the marketplace where is the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam right and here the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam had retreated from the people or he'd gone away from the people and he was in this garden and the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam had a stick in his hand and he sat inside he pulled up his pants salallahu alayhi wasalam to where he would dangle his legs in this well bi'r aris and the Prophet salallahu alayhi
wasalam had a stick and he was slowly striking the water and he was moving the mud around so the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam was in a moment or in moments of contemplation and you know taking a break right away from the people in what he was doing alayhi salatu wasalam so subhanAllah as they were looking for the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam a man comes to the gate or of the garden and he asked permission to enter the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam tells Abu Musa who decided he's gonna guard the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam's privacy let him have his time the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam tells Abu Musa go and open the gate for him and give him the glad tidings of Jannah so he said I went to the gate and behold it was none other than Abu Bakr as-Siddiq radiAllahu ta'ala anhu always the first always the first right so Abu Bakr radiAllahu ta'ala anhu came in and he was informed of the glad tidings of entering into Jannah and he praised Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and he went and he sat next to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam so imagine now the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam and Abu Bakr radiAllahu ta'ala anhu was sitting in this well sitting at the edge of this well dangling their feet in the water and then another person comes and asks permission to enter the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam says to Abu Musa open the gate for him and give him the glad tidings of entering into Jannah entering into another garden the garden of Al-Jannah not just this garden so Abu Musa says I went and who was it none other than Umar bin Khattab radiAllahu ta'ala anhu so I opened the gate and I gave him the glad tidings of Jannah and he came in and then he said another man came in and asked permission to enter into the garden and he said the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam at that point he was sitting in a leaning posture so he was he was leaning salallahu alayhi wasalam but he sat up at this point and he said open the
gate for him wabashshirhu biljannah ala balwa tusibuhu enter him into or open the gate for him and give him the glad tidings of entering paradise after a calamity that will befall him after a hardship that will befall him subhanAllah he didn't say this alayhi salatu wasalam for Abu Bakr or for Umar he said it for him for this particular man he said I went and behold it was Uthman ibn Affan radiAllahu ta'ala anhu so I opened the gate for him and I gave him the glad tidings of entering Jannah after a hardship that would befall him Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala anhu responded Allahul musta'an from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala alone is help sought and he goes and he enters radiAllahu ta'ala anhu Uthman into this garden and he sits across from the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam and Abu Bakr and Umar radiAllahu ta'ala anhum ajma'een now this is you know significant for many reasons and you've probably heard me speak about this incident in multiple occasions but I want to connect this particularly to a recent khutbah amhasibatum an tatkulul jannah do you think you will enter into Jannah and then you hear the example of those that came before you and the ways in which they struggled right so Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala connecting particularly the hardship to aljannah in the case of Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala anhu this is a amhasibatum an tatkulul jannah right the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam could have just given him the glad tidings of jannah there but the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam mentions that jannah after after a hardship that will strike you in another incident the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam was on Uhud and with him on Jabal Uhud was Abu Bakr Umar and Uthman these three once again and as the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam was walking on Uhud, Uhud shook
and the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam said Uthbut ya Uhud be firm oh Uhud because you have upon you a nabi, a siddiq and shahidain you have upon you a prophet a man of truth we talked about a siddiq radiAllahu ta'ala anhu and two martyrs so the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam had already informed both Umar and Uthman at this point that they would be shuhada that they would be amongst those who were martyred and there are numerous incidents that take place along the same regard you know Ubay ibn Ka'ab radiAllahu ta'ala anhu he said I heard the messenger of Allah salallahu alayhi wasalam and he was talking about the fitna he was talking about the trials that would that would befall us as a community and the hardship and the strife and then this man walked by and he was wrapped up and the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam said and this man will be upon al haqq wal huda this person will be upon truth and guidance and the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam said it multiple times so then Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala anhu unwrapped his face and I said to the messenger of Allah salallahu alayhi wasalam him and the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam said yes him another narration from Aisha radiAllahu ta'ala anha that the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam told Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala anhu oh Uthman perhaps Allah will clothe you with a certain garment and if the hypocrites demand that you remove it from yourself do not remove it until you meet me subhanAllah the wording here is is very important when we talk about the the murder of Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala anhu the garment is the khilafah and Abdullah ibn Abbas radiAllahu anhu would remind Uthman radiAllahu anhu later on in his life when he wanted to just you know he thought about just why don't I just relinquish this because that would solve the problem or maybe it would solve the problem na tanzi' qameesan qamasak Allahu biha do not take off a garment that Allah clothed you with remember what the prophet sallAllahu alehiwasallam said to you so the prophet said
do not remove it until you meet me until you meet me and another narration from Aisha radiAllahu anha also that Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala anhu had entered upon the prophet sallAllahu alayhi wasallam and the Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wasallam told him to come close and he got so close that the prophet sallAllahu alayhi wasallam was whispering into his ear and as the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was whispering into his ear. Uthman radiAllahu Anhu's face was changing colors. And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam asked him if he comprehended, if he understood the gravity of what he was saying. And Uthman radiAllahu Anhu responded that his ears had heard and his heart has accepted what the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam has said. And this is not just to Uthman subhanAllah, this is to the community as a whole. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, you're going to face turmoil and differences, fitna after I'm gone. And one of the people says to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, and you know, what would help us at that time, Ya Rasulullah, what do we do at that time? He said, alaykum bil ameen wa ashabihi. He pointed to Uthman radiAllahu Anhu. And he said, stay close with this trustworthy one and his companions. Stay close with this trustworthy one and his companions. So this is another honor for Uthman radiAllahu Anhu that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam would call him al-Ameen, the same nickname that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam had. So stay close with this Ameen and those that are with him. He said Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam in another narration, whoever is saved from three things will indeed be saved. And what he meant alayhis salatu was salam was the fitna, the types of fitna that would come in these three things. He said, my death, so the death of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was a major fitna, a major trial. And he said the ascension of Dajjal, may Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la protect us all, Allahumma Ameen. And then he said the murder of a Khalifa who is persevering upon the truth and fulfilling his duty.
So this is as the scholars mentioned Uthman radiAllahu Ta'ala Anhu, the fitna of the murder of Uthman radiAllahu Ta'ala Anhu. So the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is putting it on the scale of these other two fitnas. Obviously not exactly the same, but the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is mentioning it within the capacity of the other two fitnas. And we know how deep and how troublesome those other two fitnas would be. And I wanna mention one more narration and then we'll just kind of fast forward InshAllah Ta'ala here. When Aisha radiAllahu Ta'ala Anhu describes this instance, she says that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was one day laying down and Abu Bakr radiAllahu Ta'ala Anhu entered in. And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he was lying down on his bed. He wasn't really, you know, he was relaxed alayhi salatu wasalam. And he remained in that relaxed posture when Abu Bakr radiAllahu Anhu came in and you know, Abu Bakr spent some time. He fulfilled his need there and then he went away. Then Umar radiAllahu Anhu came. SubhanAllah, this seems to be the constant, right? Umar radiAllahu Anhu came, he asked permission to enter. He entered upon the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam remained laying down in that way. He fulfilled his need and then he went away. Then Uthman radiAllahu Anhu came. And Uthman radiAllahu Ta'ala Anhu asked permission to enter. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam sits up. He fixes his clothes alayhi salatu wasalam. He tells Aisha radiAllahu Anhu to, you know, to cover herself properly. Not referring to the hijab, but to, you know, increase the appearance. Obviously she was already covered, you know, if the presence of Umar radiAllahu Ta'ala Anhu was in there, but to get things set up in a certain way, right, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam received him in a certain way that he didn't receive Abu Bakr or Umar, may Allah be pleased with them. And so he came in, Uthman radiAllahu Anhu came in. He spent some time with the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
he fulfilled his need and then he left. And Aisha radiAllahu Ta'ala Anhu, obviously she was shocked by what she had seen, right? Because Abu Bakr and Umar, may Allah be pleased with them, as incredible of a human being and as great as Uthman radiAllahu Anhu is, he's not superior to Abu Bakr and Umar, right? RadiAllahu Anhum. So she says, you know... Ya Rasulullah, I saw something that I hadn't seen before and you did not, you did not prepare for the entrance of Abu Bakr and Umar the way that you did for Uthman. And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, أَلَا أَسْتَحِي مِمَّن يَسْتَحِي مِنْهُ الْمَلَائِكَةِ Should I not be shy from a man that even the angels are shy from? SubhanAllah. Should I not be shy from a man that even the angels are shy from? In another narration, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, Uthman is a shy man and I was afraid that if he entered while I was upon that state, he would not tell me of his need. And the ulama explained this in two ways. One possibility is that, you know, if he saw, you know, some of the hardship, then he wouldn't have asked his need if it was something in that regard. And some of them, they said that what they meant by that is that Uthman radiAllahu Anhu would have been too shy to sit while the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was sitting there. He would have hurried his visit because of the way that Uthman radiAllahu Anhu was so bashful, was so shy. So the point being that, you know, obviously this rank that Allah gave him, that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, even the malaika, even the angels are shy from him radiAllahu Anhu. So let's just fast forward. And again, what I want to just reflect upon is the qualities of Uthman radiAllahu Anhu and how those qualities play into the fitna that happened with Uthman radiAllahu Anhu. You know, the khilafah of Uthman was long. It was a long khilafah. It was, you know, so long and there was so much that was in it of khair, of the spread of Islam, of so many contributions to Islam.
But we often just focus on the last few years, which were the fitna that had to do with Uthman radiAllahu Anhu. And if you actually study the first decade of Uthman's khilafah and the incredible contributions and the way that Islam spread and what Uthman radiAllahu Anhu was able to accomplish, it was incredible and it requires a study in and of itself. And those contributions are often, you know, affiliated only with Umar radiAllahu Anhu, right? But what Umar radiAllahu Anhu had started in terms of the spread of Islam, obviously building on the foundations left from the short khilafah of Abu Bakr as-Siddiq radiAllahu Anhu, continued in the life of Uthman radiAllahu Anhu. And Islam spread and in beautiful and meaningful ways, the infrastructure of the ummah was further built. So why the khilafah of Uthman, of all people, when you have such a noble man, such a person who is beloved, who is shy, who is humble, and you have the goodness of Islam spreading throughout the world for over a decade, why this khalifah to be the first one to be assassinated by someone saying la ilaha illallah, right? By people who claim to be doing so in the name of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And this is, you know, this is clear that, you know, the only way to hinder the progress of this particular khilafah, of this great man and everything that was happening was to destabilize, was to cause dissension within. Because when fitna arises, we become too busy with ourselves to be productive. And by the time people figure out, you know, how unproductive fitna was and all of the sins that were accrued and all of the hardship and harm that was caused, the damage, you know, at that point becomes too late, right? And that's the problem that subhanAllah, even amongst the sahaba, this was able to occur,
obviously instigated from outside when you read about the khilafah of Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, but it took root. So how is it that a man who is this noble and this generous to the ummah, who financed the contributions to the spread of Islam, who gave so much to Islam, who was amongst the first to embrace the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam's message, who married two daughters of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam, and the virtues go on and on and on and on. How is it that him of all people is going to be targeted? And this is where it becomes so important for us to take a moment and pause on the way that rumors spread in the time of Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, especially for the age that we live in right now and to take heed of this. I want you to pay attention to this incident in Sahih al-Bukhari, where Abdullah ibn Umar radiAllahu anhu was sitting with some of the companions and it was hajj. And Abdullah ibn Umar used to obviously receive people in hajj and answer their questions in the time of hajj. And a man from Egypt passed by and he saw some companions that were sitting with Umar radiAllahu ta'ala anhu. And he said, man al-qawm, who are these people? And they said that these are Quraysh. He said, who's the old man amongst them? And they said that this is Abdullah ibn Umar radiAllahu anhu. So subhanAllah, even in his own lifetime, right, he's unrecognized despite who he is radiAllahu ta'ala anhu. Abdullah ibn Umar, he's not recognizable to this man from Egypt. So he says to him, ya ibn Umar, he says, oh ibn Umar, I want to ask you something. He says, go ahead. He said, did you know that Uthman fled from the Battle of Uhud? Uthman is the khalifa, right? Did you know Uthman fled from the Battle of Uhud? He said, yes. He said, did you know Uthman wasn't even there at Badr? He said, yes. He said, did you know Uthman wasn't there at Bay'at al-Ridwan? He said, yes. The man says, you know, the man is shocked. Allahu Akbar, why is it that you let this person be the khalifa? How could you, right? I mean, all these things. And he was, you know, he fled Uhud. He wasn't there at Badr.
He wasn't there at Bay'at al-Ridwan. SubhanAllah, this is while sahaba are still alive. This is while sahaba are still alive. And Abdullah ibn Umar radiAllahu anhuma, he was there, right, at these, you know, for these incidents. And he says to him, he says, first of all, for Uhud, Allah azawajal revealed the forgiveness for those that had left the battlefield of Uhud, right? Allah azawajal forgave them. So let's put that aside. But subhanAllah, can you imagine Badr and Bay'at al-Ridwan, both of them, right? We know the circumstances as we've spoken about them with Badr and Bay'at al-Ridwan. Uthman radiAllahu anhu wasn't present at Badr because the Prophet Sallallahu alaihi wasalam permitted him to stay back and care for the daughter of the Prophet Sallallahu alaihi wasalam. And the Prophet Sallallahu alaihi wasalam counted him from the veterans of Badr. And he wasn't at Bay'at al-Ridwan. The whole Bay'ah, right, was sparked because of Uthman, the rumors that Uthman radiAllahu anhu had been killed in Mecca. But even at that time while sahaba were still alive, without the world of social media, look how these half-truths were spun and the fitna built up, right, even in that ummah with those great people that were alive. And Uthman radiAllahu anhu was targeted. So subhanAllah, it's very important for us to think about this. Antul seebu qawman bi jahala that you would, in ignorance, out of righteousness, even out of a sense of righteousness, would end up hurting a people out of ignorance. There were people that joined the fitna against Uthman radiAllahu anhu, the movement against Uthman radiAllahu anhu, that did so from a noble place because they believed all of the things that were being said. I mean, amongst them even, can you imagine Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr, the son of Abu Bakr radiAllahu anhu, the youngest son of Abu Bakr. You know, Abu Bakr radiAllahu anhu died when he was an infant. But the fact that young people got caught up in this entire fitna and think about our time, right, subhanAllah, how this can happen, right.
So these half-truths were spun and what ends up happening is that subhanAllah, the web of lies continue to grow. So then they accused him, they said nepotism, they said that he stole money and he was spending upon his family from baytul maal. Then they said, oh, the manbar, Uthman radiAllahu anhu raised the manbar. Then they said Uthman radiAllahu anhu innovated in regards to the time of fajr, in regards to the adhan being done twice. Uthman did this, Uthman did that. And it kept on increasing until the environment became impossible for Uthman radiAllahu anhu. And this is where it's important to pay attention to his qualities, okay. Uthman radiAllahu anhu becomes the victim of this massive rumor mill. And this is not even in the time, subhanAllah, of telecommunications. Let's not even talk about social media. We're not talking about text messages here. We're talking about letters being written and people passing by word of mouth while sahaba are still alive. And Uthman radiAllahu anhu, this, who is, you know, this person that the angels felt shy from and who was so beloved to the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam. Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala anhu is targeted. And I want to talk about a few things here and how his qualities came into play. Number one, the Quran, his love of the Quran. SubhanAllah, when a person is in fitna, in any hardship, not even just fitna, you're going through hardship, where do you find your ease? You should find it in the Quran, right? You find it in the Quran. Atta'alluq bi kitabillah. You go back and you tie yourself to the book of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And what did Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala anhu used to say? He used to say, law tahurat quloobana. If our hearts were pure, ma shabi'at min kalamillah. Our hearts would never become sick of the words of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Never, would never become full of the words of Allah. And that you would never, you know, the word I'm looking for,
like the thirst would not be quenched for the words of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Ma shabi'at min kalamillah. Right? They would always crave the Quran if our hearts were pure. So the purer the heart, the more that it craves the Quran. And Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala anhu used to say, inni la akrahu an ya'ti alayya yawm. I would hate that even a day passes by me. la anzuru fihi. And I don't look at the page of a mushaf. I would hate that a day even passes by me, without me staring at the mushaf, without me reading the book of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And so the books of the virtues of Uthman, mention things like him reading the Quran in its entirety, twice a day. Mention things like him doing a khatm of the Quran, in front of the Ka'bah in one raka'a or two raka'as. You know, subhanAllah, it's unreal. And even when the fitna was taking place, when his home was under siege, and these people who had again, you know, fallen victim to the slander of Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, and are attacking him. One of the family members of Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, screams out and she says, uqtuluhu awda'u. You kill him or you leave him. fa wallahi laqad kana yuhyi allayla bilquran fi raka'a. This man used to revive the entire night of his, or his entire night with a recitation of the Quran in one raka'a. This is a man who is deeply connected to the Quran. So whatever you do to him, know that this is a person that's connected to the Quran. And subhanAllah, what would end up happening, is that he would even die, right, while reading the Quran. Allah would take the life of Uthman. And this is something that we often do not appreciate, when we're talking about Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala anhu. And that's with the short time that we have to cover him here. You know, his connection to the Quran did not just show up at the time of death. His connection to the Quran was constant. And at the time of death, what ends up happening?
He's sitting and he's reading the Quran as the people barge in on him, and they murder him while he's reading, fasayak fee kahumullah wa huwa ssameera'een. Allah will suffice you in regards to them. And Allah is the all-hearing and the all-knowing. He's reading the Quran as he's killed. That type of a gift, that type of an ending, does not just show up at the end, right? Saying la ilaha illallah at the time of death does not show up for a person that does not live la ilaha illallah in life. These types of words, right, can only root themselves in the heart when a person is constant upon them. So it's a reminder to all of us, especially as we're encountering the hardship that we're encountering, you know, with COVID and the pandemic and so much that's going on, the Quran, the Quran, the Quran, alayna bilquran, upon us is the Quran, and to create that connection to the Quran. And subhanAllah, imagine with Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu then, the way that the character of the Quran or the qualities of the Quran, the Quran mentioned, showed themselves in the behavior of Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu. So imagine what, la tubtilo sadaqatikum bil manni wal adha. O you who believe, do not void your charity bil manni wal adha by boasting about your charity or harming the one that you're giving charity to. Imagine that, right? Imagine what this does to you if you're Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, right? So Uthman would not come out and boast about what he did for the Ummah. Uthman was not going to remind these people of fitna constantly and say, hey, remember I did this and I did that. Don't you know the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam told me this and don't you know that I did this and don't you know that I did that, right? He doesn't do that radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu. Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu does not boast about his charity nor does he harm the people that he gives charity to. Imagine what Surat Al-Lail which we talked about, you know, was revealed in regards to Abu Bakr radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu.
That illa btigha awajhi rabbihi al-a'la. That this person does not seek approval from anyone but the Lord, the Most High. They seek the pleasure of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Imagine what that does to Uthman radiAllahu Anhu when he reads these words in the book of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So it starts with that connection to Allah and his Messenger SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. The Quran which lasts obviously beyond the Messenger alayhis Salaatu was-Salam and what Uthman radiAllahu Anhu did to keep a constant connection with the Quran to keep him going through all of these times and his haya which already existed before Islam and was only beautified in Islam, his modesty stops him from mentioning his favors to the people. So Uthman radiAllahu Anhu is not going to come out and continue to mention his favors upon the people, right? He's going to keep that to himself radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu. His generosity with those that spread the rumors and caused his siege, okay, and continue to hold him under siege. Where does Uthman radiAllahu Anhu get this? Number one, he fears dhulm to an extreme. He fears oppression himself, being an oppressor to an extreme. And you know, I was thinking about this subhanAllah. You read about the trials of Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu and then you compare that to the hadith of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam where he says, مَا ضَرُّ عُثْمَانَ مَا فَعْلَ بَعْدِ الْيَوْمِ Nothing will hurt Uthman after what he's done today. But subhanAllah, I mean look what he goes through, right? With the siege, like so, again, أَمْ حَسِبَتُمْ أَن تَذْخُلُوا الْجَنَّةَ Nothing will hurt him in regards to his standing with Allah subhanAllah, his rank with Allah. So it's as if you can see Uthman radiAllahu Anhu's concern becomes not to compromise that position with Allah subhanAllah. So his generosity with those who spread the rumors, who caused the siege, who held him under siege, his fear of dhulm.
There was once a young servant who, Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu had, you know, he's an old man, right? He's well into his seniority and he pinches the servants just to get his attention. And the young servant looked like he was upset by it. Uthman radiAllahu Anhu was hurt that he might have hurt that young man. So he says, pinch me, pinch me back. He goes down and he says, grab my ear, pinch me back. And this young servant is saying, يا أمين المؤمنين I have no desire to do so. I don't want to pinch your ear. No, of course, I'm not going to pinch your ear. And he insisted and he kept on pushing him, pinch, pinch, grab my ear, pinch it. And this young man is saying no. And Uthman radiAllahu Anhu says, please pinch it. And then he pinches it and he just, you know, touches it. Uthman radiAllahu Anhu says, pinch harder, grab it harder. And he says to him, يا أمين المؤمنين I don't want to. And he says, please. He says, because قصاص الدنيا أهون من قصاص الآخرة To feel the pain of retaliation in this world is far easier than feeling the pain of the retaliation in the hereafter. SubhanAllah, look at that beautiful akhlaaq that he displays. His selflessness. You know, you have the likes of Ali and Al-Hassan and Al-Hussein. May Allah be pleased with them. Talha wa Zubair, may Allah be pleased with them. These people that are saying, let us fight for you. Let us fight on your behalf. Let us kill these people, right, that are causing all of this. And Uthman radiAllahu Anhu says, do not shed a drop of blood in my cause. Not a drop of blood in my cause. So subhanAllah, you can see the sincerity of Uthman radiAllahu Anhu. In that, you know, everything that he did for the ummah, when this now happens to him, Uthman did not change his character. Right, Uthman did not say, you know what, forget about you guys.
I've done all this for you for decades. I've served and this is what I get in return. Forget about you guys. Let it break loose, right? Let's go ahead and pull the swords and let's just cause chaos. Because his sincerity was to Allah. His sincerity was to Rasulullah. His sincerity was to the ummah. Okay, his sincerity was to the ummah. That he would rather be the first khalifa to be killed by members of this ummah rather than to have members of this ummah killed in his name. And he didn't want it radiAllahu Anhu. So he maintained his sincerity to Allah, sincerity to Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and his sincerity to the ummah until the time of his death. And you know, we end with, and I don't care how many times I would say this, subhanAllah, Wallahi, it is, you know, the goal of every believer, right, is to be with the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And Uthman radiAllahu Anhu on the last day of his life, he goes to sleep in a state of fasting. He takes a nap. He's fasting. It's a Thursday and he sees none other than the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam in a dream. And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says to Uthman radiAllahu Anhu, O Uthman, have they prohibited you from water? And Uthman radiAllahu Anhu says, Naam ya Rasulullah. You know, it's like complaining to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Ya Salamu alayhi wa sallam, they don't, they're not letting me have water. Have they forbidden you from food? They're not giving me food. They're not, they're starving him. They are torturing him in every way, holding him under siege, setting fire to his house, all types of things. And, ya Uthman, did they prohibit you from praying in my masjid? Naam ya Rasulullah. They're not even letting me pray in your masjid. And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam tells Uthman radiAllahu Anhu, Apshir ya Uthman, glide tidings O Uthman, tonight you will break your fast with I, Abu Bakr and Umar. SubhanAllah, you'll get to join us again. Remember that garden, this is not the narration, but that garden when they were sitting, right?
Just like you enter into the gate at that point, number three, you're going to enter into this gate. You're going to enter into this realm and you're going to have iftar with us tonight. I, Abu Bakr and Umar will be waiting for you and we will break our fast together. And SubhanAllah, it happens that he wakes up and he is killed again reading the Quran. He's so happy when he wakes up from this nap because what do you want, right? I mean at that point, what do you want? What's left of this world, right? That you have the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam waiting for you. So he is murdered reading the Quran and ready to die. Ready to break his fast with the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, Abu Bakr and Umar. May Allah be pleased with them. And SubhanAllah, we end on the story of Uthman radiAllahu Anhu back to that moment of the garden where they sat in that garden and they dangled their feet in the well. Uthman radiAllahu Anhu was prohibited from being buried in the Baqir. Not only would he be prohibited from being buried close to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, Abu Bakr and Umar, he would not be buried in the Baqir. They prohibited a janazah, a public janazah because they knew that it would cause the emotions to flare. So the people that murdered him that had taken, held Madinah under siege, they forced his burial to be at night. No public janazah, nothing to try to hold back the people so that the emotions would not be stirred at the death of this noble man, the murder of this noble man in such a way. And SubhanAllah, you know, Said al-Musayyib radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu said that, you know, the way that Uthman radiAllahu Anhu is placed at the well, right? He's across from the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, Abu Bakr and Umar is the way he's buried, right? That if you look at the symmetry, the way that it is, the way that the grave of Uthman is placed radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, it is as if they're sitting in that well together and he's the one that's sitting across from them. And Allah azza wa jal so willed it that the Baqir would expand to include the grave of Uthman.
So now if you go to Jannatul Baqir, when you go to the graveyard and you walk in, as you go forward, I don't want to, it's hard to give the precise location, but there is a sign, you know, that talks about the prohibitions in the graveyard and there's usually a guard that's sitting there and it's distant from the initial opening of Al-Baqir where you have a lot of the prominent companions and family members of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And Uthman radiAllahu Anhu's grave is there in Al-Baqir today. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala be pleased with them all upon the family, the companions, the Khulafa Rashideen, may Allah azza wa jal join us with them and with our Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam in Jannatul Firdaus. Allahuma Ameen. JazakumAllahu Khayran. Wasalamualikoum wa rahmatollahi wa barakatohu.
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