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So Uthman said, I shall prepare a 100
camels with your equipment and saddlebags.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam encouraged again. So
Uthman
said, I will prepare another 100 camels with
your equipment and saddlebags.
Then the prophet descended from his mimbar
and encouraged once more. So Uthman ibn Affan
stood up for the 3rd time and said,
I shall prepare another 100 camels with your
equipment and saddlebags.
And I, the narrator,
saw the Messenger
was gesturing with his hand that nothing
that Uthman does after this will bring him
any harm. Nothing he does after this will
bring him any harm. And this is narrated
by Abdullah, the son of Imam Ahmad
Al Zubayr ibn Abdullah conveyed that his grandmother
called Rahima said, Uthman used to observe fasting
all year round, meaning he would fast the
fast of the wud continuously,
and he would pray all night except for
a brief sleep at the beginning of the
night. And this is narrated by Imam Ahmad
as this was part of the sunnah of
the Prophet
after salatuasha. He would go to sleep. Whenever
he prayed salatuasha, he would go to sleep
for a short while, then he would get
up and pray for a very long time.
And then Aisha
said sometimes he would rest and then go
to the masjid. Sometimes he would rest and
then get up and pray again and then
go to the masjid.
But he would sleep more the night than
he prayed.
Ibn Sirin
narrated that Osman's wife said that when he
was killed,
how could you kill him when he used
to keep awake all night reciting the Quran?
He also narrated that she said when they
surrounded and wanted to kill him, whether you
kill him or leave him, he used to
pray all night long. And I heard him
in a single rakah recite the entire Quran.
So he would stand up at night and
pray and
recite the entire Quran in one rakah. This
was
It is narrated
by Al Hassan
that when he was asked about those who
used to take in a nap in the
masjid, so he said, I once saw Uthman
ibn Affan
in the masjid when he was the khalifa.
He would get up with a mark on
his side from sleeping on pebbles. So this
is the khalif of the Muslims. The khalif.
He would go in the masjid of the
Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam to the part
that there wasn't mats or anything or there
were just rocks, and he would just go
find a place and sleep. And Al Hassan,
you know this is the grandson of the
Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said I would
see him get up and there would be
marks on his side from where he was
sleeping on the pebbles.
And he would say, is this
the Amir ul mumineen?
This is indeed the Amir ul mumineen, and
this is the narrator of Imam Ahmad.
It is also narrated that he said,
I saw Uthman asleep in the masjid with
his robes under his head. A man would
come and sit next to him and another
man would come and sit next to him
like any other ordinary person. He never treated
him. You will see and you're starting to
see this,
this,
this trend amongst the the khuli of Faroshidun.
You look at the life of Abu Bakr,
look at the life of Omar. They were
very simple. They never ever saw themselves above
anyone else. Even though they were the emir
of the Muslims,
they were the Khalifa. They were the best
of us after the Prophet
They never saw themselves as better than anyone
else. They never demanded to be treated better
than anyone else. And in fact, they used
to try to live the most simple of
lives.
Even though they had the ability.
At the time of the Khalifa of of
of Umar, the Muslims became very wealthy. During
the time of the Khalifa, Uthman ibn Affan,
and he himself was a wealthy man. The
Umar was very wealthy at this time. He
could have lived lavishly. He could have lived
like the kings of Rome. He could have
lived like the Byzantine emperors. But no. He
see He saw himself as not only a
simple
believer, but the servant of the Muslims. He
now knew that understood that as the khalifa,
I am now the lowest. I am the
lowest because I am going to be regarded
as as as as,
accountable in front of Allah
So they tried to live very very simply.
Soleiman ibn Musa narrated that, Uthman ibn Affan
was invited to the banquet of some people
who were doing something wretched and wrong. When
he arrived, he found that they had already
left, and he saw some traces of their
wretched doings. So he thanked Allah that he
missed them, and he freed a slave in
gratitude for Allah
Just that he missed being in the company
of people who were evildoers.
Just that he missed their company, he praised
Allah
thanked him and freed a slave in gratitude.
Even Muslim reported that Uthman used to feed
people the royal food and enter his house
and eat vinegar and oil. Because at that
time the khilafa had become a bit more
lavish and there was royal food prepared
for for for, you know, the the the
people who are around the Khalifa.
Uthman ibn Affan used to give it to
poor people. He never used to eat what,
you know, was considered the royal food. And
he would go home and he would eat
bread with oil and vinegar. He would feed
poor people and go home and eat bread
with oil and vinegar. This is the status
of the people who are people of Jannah.
You want to know what The reason why
I'm going through this series is that we
all want to be people of Jannah, right?
We all want to be people of paradise.
This is what they look like.
This is what they look like. We can
This is the beautiful thing about these people
who were promised, and this is some of
the hikmah
of the Prophet
in giving them
this this this
this glad tiding in their lifetime, is that
we can now look back in history and
see what people of Jannah look like.
Without that we would have no idea. We
would say we know the in Jannah. The
rest of us, we don't know if we're
going or we're not going. No. These people
we know are people of Al Jannah. So
if we wanna know how to make it
to Jannah, we look at these people and
we try to emulate them to the best
of our abilities or emulate some of their
characteristics
Al Hassan was talking about Uthman ibn Affan
one day in his high modesty.
So he said he used to be at
his house with the door closed, but he
would never take off his clothes to wash
his body because he believed him he had
too much hayyah to get naked. He had
too much shame to ever be naked, so
he would wash himself with his clothes on.
Al Zubair ibn Abdullah
radiAllahu anhu reported from his grandmother that Uthman
ibn Affan never awakened any of his family
members at night unless someone was already awake.
He wouldn't cut So if he needed something,
you know like many of us, we need
something, we ask a family member, we ask
our wife, we ask our children, you know.
And if you were the khalif of the
Muslims, you would have servants, he would have
slaves, he would have con All types of
people could assist him.
But it was never he would never wake
anybody up if they were asleep and they
weren't already awake. Even if he needed water
to make wudu, he'd want anything he would
need, he would go and do it himself.
And he used to
always make sure that he took care of
his own affairs.
He received the pledge of allegiance.
He received the bay'a from the Muslims
on a Monday, the last of Dhul Hijjah
in the 23rd year of the Hijrah.
He received bay'ah from the Muslims on the
last day of Dhul Hijjah
in the 23rd
year after the hijrah of the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam.
He began his khalifa
at the beginning of Muharram
on the 24th year because as you know
the end of Dhul Hajj is the end
of the Muslim calendar. So he began his
khalifa on the 1st day of the new
year, in the first of the Muharram,
in the 24th year of the Hijra, and
he remained as the Khalifa for 12 years.
He remained as the Khalifa for 12 years.
Abu Ma'as Arasaid, 12 days short of 12
years. So almost 12 years. He was out
of out of out of his predecessors, he
remained the longest.
Abu Bakr was very short. Omar's was not
very long. Othman ibn Affan had 12 years
as the Khalifa of the Muslims.
We could go very very deep into this,
which we will at some point, but this
is not the context of it, into some
of the the the things that led up
to the end of the life, of Uthman
ibn Affan, but it would it would be
very long, drawn out, and political. This is
also a place where there is some some
division, and division began amongst the Muslims. Division
began at the ummah.
Things happened. Things didn't happen. Things were said
to have happened one way or another way.
And, I don't want to start getting into
that today because actually that's a whole long
series where we would get into because there
was a huge shift in the ummah
at this time. A huge shift became a
chasm was created
at the time of the death of Uthman
ibn Affan
that led to some
very disastrous results for this ummah. It led
to many many factions being spread in the
ummah, and also people used to after the
death of Uthman,
this is when people would not just take
anyone's word when they would relate a hadith
from the Messenger of
Allah After the death of Uthman, people would
ask, Who is your what's your isnad? What
is your isnad? Because many things were being
said and spread and etcetera, so on and
so forth.
Which we will talk about one day in
one of the lectures insha'Allah
because it is part of our history that
needs to be understood in the correct way,
but this is not the the time and
place for them. This is about their their
their good qualities, the best of them, and
the best of this, Umma. We're not gonna
talk about
the the the issues that happened at that
time.
He was surrounded by his house.
He was surrounded in his house for a
number of days.
And then they stormed in and they killed
him on a Friday.
I'm a stop right there for just one
moment.
Was made a shahid
on a Friday. So number 1, we know
that the death of the shuhada,
they feel no pain. They feel no pain.
The Prophet
said, the pain is gone with the 1st
drop of blood that is spilled from them.
The fear is gone from the 1st drop
of blood that is spilled from them. So
they don't feel pain or fear. The shurhadah,
the real shurhadah.
Not only that, but we know where they
reside.
The the the souls of the Shuhada are
where?
Where are the souls of the Shuhada?
In Al Jannah. Inside of what?
Green birds.
Where do they where do they reside in
Al Jannah?
On lamps that hang off the throne of
Allah
And every single day
is what the prophet
said that when a shuhada, when a shahi
dies, Allah takes that soul directly and puts
into a green bird. It travels anywhere it
wants in Al Jannah. And but at night
and in the evening it finds its resting
place under the throne of Allah
and lamps to hang off of it. And
every day Allah asks the shuhada. Every day.
What can I do for you?
What
can I give you? What service can I
offer you? And every day they responded, What
else could you? What else could we want?
What else could you give us? And every
day Allah says, No. I want something. Give
me something that I can give you. What
is the only request they can think of?
Our Lord, if you wanted to give us
anything, then send us back to the world
in which you came from, and put us
through the same death that brought us here
in the 1st place.
Let me go experience that all over again.
So not only do Uthman ibn Affan die
as a shawheed, but he died on a
Friday. Does anybody know some of the qualities
of people who die on a Friday?
What is one of the qualities of someone
who Allah takes their soul on a Friday
as a believer?
They're saved from the torment of the grave.
They are saved from the torment of the
grave. So if you die on a Friday,
Allah decides to take your soul on a
Friday, it is a sign of honor for
you that Allah will not
hold you with torment of the grave, even
if you might be deserving of it. Because
there's certain things that we do that will
cause us to have punishment in the grave.
There was once the Prophet
was walking by a grave,
and he had a green vine with him,
and he stuck it in the grave.
And they asked him, How did he do
that? He said, He's being punished
for something that is not major, that is
small,
but it's something that we should be wary
of. And I'm hoping that as long as
this
this vine stays green, that Allah will relieve
his punishment for him. What was his what
was his sin?
Anybody know?
Simple sin.
Yes. He was un he was he was
un he was,
careless
about his urination,
and you sustained his clothes
and not take care of it. For that
simple act of of najasah,
Allah
was punishing him in his grave. So to
be dying on a Friday, it's a good
day. It's a good day In the
35th year of the hijrah
Now this is something else we would get
into which I'm just gonna brief over it
here. But it is debated
by scholars who killed him. There is there
is still to this day debate about who
really was the one who assassinated him. Some
say it was Al Aswad,
Al Tajibi from Egypt. Some say it was
Jabili ibn Ahiam, some say it was Satwan
ibn Roman al Muradi, and some others say
it was
Al Tajabi and Mohammed ibn Al Hudayfa who
struck him while he was reading from the
Mus'af, and he was fasting on the day.
So it's a different opinion because it was
chaotic.
Literally there were people surrounding his house for
many days trying to get in. There were
some people who came and tried to help
him. There were some people who were trying
to get in. They eventually broke through the
the gates of his house, just broke in
and chaos ensued, and and and when he
when when the chaos ended, he was found
dead. But he was reading from the Quran
and fasting on the day in which he
died.
Abdullah ibn Farooq conveyed that when he saw
Uthman ibn Affan buried in his clothes with
his blood, it is said that al Zubair
led his Janazah prayer. Some say it was
Hakim ibn Hazam,
and others say that it was Zubayr ibn,
Mutaim.
And the reason why I'm telling you, like,
there's this debate about who killed it, who
led it to Jazanah, etcetera. There was there
was a lot of chaos on this day.
There was a lot of confusion on this
day. There was a lot of bad things
that happened on the day of the the
killing of Uthman ibn Affan
Al Hasan said, I saw the murderers of
Uthman throwing pebbles at each other in the
masjid until the skylight could not be seen.
Some raised the muskhat from one of their,
one of the Prophet's rooms and called, did
you not know that Muhammad
denounced those who have divided their religion and
split it into sects? This is talking about
some of the the the debate and the
disagreement
between
some of the things that Uthman ibn Affan
did with removing some governors, placing some others,
choosing other family members, the the the the
Bani Umayyah over Bani Hisham, etcetera. This is
where the whole drama started to take place.
But lastly, we'll end we'll talk about that
one day
and then also we'll talk about some of
the the wisdom
behind the Othman ibn Affan's decision that would
be seen later. It would be seen later.
Sometimes,
you know, things are not understood in the
moment. People can't really conceive a bigger picture.
Othman ibn Affan had a bigger he was
playing a bigger picture and a bigger role
than he was thinking about. And then if
we look at
the
and some of the things that they were
able to accomplish and who came from him,
etc, you'll see some of the wisdoms of
Othman ibn Affan, but we'll talk about that
another day.
People's praise of him.
It is authentically narrated that Abu Bakr as
Siddiq
was dictating his will to Uthman.
He was dictating his will to Uthman ibn
Affan on his deathbed.
When he was about to name his next
Khalifa, he lost his consciousness.
He was dictating his will and he was
about to say who is supposed to be
the Khalifa after me. He lost consciousness.
So Uthman
himself wrote
Omar.
He himself because he thought he might he
might not wake up. He wrote Omar because
he know that Omar should have been the
one after him. The best The next one
in line was Omar. So he wrote Omar.
When he regained consciousness, he said, whose name
did you write? He said, I wrote Omar.
He said, you should have written yours. You
would have been worthy of
it. He said, if you would have written
yours,
which you could have, could have said me,
could have taken that that role, he said,
you would have been worthy of it. It
would not have been It would not have
been a tragedy to the Muslims if you'd
wrote your name. But instead look at the
the the virtue of of Usman ibn Affan.
We don't take advantage. He didn't take advantage
of the situation. He wrote Umar.
It is auditedly narrated that Umar
named him among the people
of the
Meaning
that the people of consultation. The people when
Umar became a Khalifa, he chose some people
that would be his shura, the people who
he would confer upon, And he named the
Uthman ibn Affan as one of them.
And testified that the Messenger of Allah sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam
died while being pleased
with Uthman ibn Affan, Which
is in itself,
there's no better
there would be nothing better than you being
told that Allah is pleased with you.
That to be told that the Prophet
is pleased with you. And we know that
the 2 are connected. If the Prophet
is pleased with someone, then Allah is pleased
with him. Because the Prophet
truly,
truly
had
love for Allah and hatred for Allah, what
we are supposed to have.
Mutrib said, When I met Ali
and he said to me, O Abu Abdullah,
what kept you from coming to us sooner?
Was it your love for Uthman? This was
after
the death of Uthman. Like I said, there
was a lot of drama when especially when
Ali became the khalifa. There were some people
who held back
their bay'ai in the beginning. We know this
happened. There was wars at the place, etc.
So he was asking him, was it love
was it love your love for Uthman that
kept you from coming to me directly?
He said, if so, he was the best
of us in maintaining the ties of kinship,
and he was the most fearing of Allah
the
Almighty.
Just reminding him that if it was his
if it was because of your love for
him, remember that he was of the best
of those in keeping ties of kinship and
having
fear of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Ibn Umar
said, when we chose amongst the people during
the time of the Prophet
We would choose Abu Bakr, then we would
choose Umar, then we would choose Uthman.
And it is This is related by Al
Bukhari. He's the only person who related this
hadith in his Sahih.
It is narrated by Abdullah
who said, we when we chose Uthman,
we chose the best of us who are
alive
at the time, and we spared no effort
in our choosing.
It is also narrated
that Ibn Umar, and this is the son
of Umar ibn Al Khattab
that interpreting the verse
where Allah says, It is, and this is
from Suratul
Zumr,
It is one who is devoutly obedient during
periods of the night,
prostrating and standing in prayer, fearing the hereafter
and hoping for the mercy of his Lord.
He said that in this verse
that this was a description
of
for Allah. May
Allah be eternally pleased with him.
The Khalifa of Uthman,
if we got really really deep into it,
which we will at some other point in
time,
was one that that that changed the course
of the Muslim Ummah
quite significantly
quite significantly for for forever pretty much.
But
what I hope we do understand, and this
is, one problem we we will find with
some of these schisms that broke off,
is that when we look at the character
of Usman ibn Affan, Radi Allahu Anhu Wa'ala,
we look at the character of his life,
we look at the fact that he was
someone who was promised paradise out of the
mouth of the Prophet
and he said that If you follow my
sunnah and the sunnah of the khulafa of
Rasheedun to come after me, you will not
go astray. Our Prophet
made no mistakes when it came to religious
matters.
No mistakes were made when in regard to
religious matters at all whatsoever.
And even when he said someone came to
me and said, If I don't find you,
who do I find next? He said, Abu
Bakr, where can I find him? He said,
Umar, if I don't find him, Uthman.
He did not make mistakes when it came
to matters of the religion. So the fact
that Uthman ibn Affan
made the choices that he made, he made
them with the best intentions possible for the
sake of Allah
fearing Allah Azzawajal,
and therefore
he had a longer vision and and term
and plan. And we look at the accomplishments
of the places and the people, that he
put in places and the change that he
made, etcetera, you can see the longer term
vision
in But Othman
indeed is one of the greatest
of us. After Abu Bakr and Umar is
Othman ibn Affan
And
next
week we will talk about the last of
the Khulafa Arashidun,
who would be Ali ibn Abi Talib, who
would unfortunately
have a khilafa that was full of turmoil,
unfortunately.
Because, the virtues
of Ali
are
many. The virtues of Ali ibn Abi Talib
are many because he was Muslim from his
childhood. He accepted Islam
as a boy, as a young boy because
he was the ward of the Prophet
at the time.
Because
Abu Talib had asked,
you know, relatives to take in some of
his children as wards, etcetera, to take care
of them. And the Prophet
was chosen to take in 'Ali. So 'Ali
was raised in the house of the Prophet
under the guidance of the Prophet and Khadija
and remained very faithful to him, dedicated to
him for his entire
the entirety of his life, ended up marrying
the daughter of the Prophet
Fatima who
as we know was one of the most
beloved of the Prophet
And
the Prophet even said about him, we know
in one very famous hadith, he said,
I am the city of knowledge and Ali
is its gate. I am the city of
knowledge and Ali is its gate. He was
very knowledgeable, very well
understood, and his virtues
are without question and we will talk about
many of them. He was also known as
one of the greatest warriors
that Banu Hashim had ever
brought forward after the Prophet
He had a very famous sword which is
still, don't they have it? It's in Turkey,
right?
Yeah. It's in Turkey.
Do you know what he named it? Just
asking for next week.
You might know what the name of it.
He named this sword, by the way. This
was known to do.
Zul Fitar.
It was a double edged sword. It had
a curve
on two ends. It would cut you both
ways.
So we would talk about Ali ibn Abi
Talib, his devotion to the Allah
his messenger, his devotion to this deen, his
honor in battle, his his for his fortitude
in battle.