Munzir Thawri narrates that we were sitting with Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah when someone spoke ill of Hazrat Uthman. Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah said, "Wait." So we said, "Your respected father (Hazrat Ali, may Allah be pleased with him) used to speak ill of him." He replied, "He never spoke ill of Hazrat Uthman. If he had spoken ill, he would have done so on the day when I came to him while the collectors of charity had come to him. Hazrat Ali, may Allah be pleased with him, said, 'The best book is the Book of Allah; take it and give it to Hazrat Uthman.' So I took it and presented it to Hazrat Uthman, but he said, 'I have no need of it.' So I returned to Hazrat Ali, may Allah be pleased with him, and informed him of Hazrat Uthman's statement. Hazrat Ali, may Allah be pleased with him, said, 'Put it back in its place.' If Hazrat Ali, may Allah be pleased with him, had criticized or reproached him, he would have done so on that day."

Zuhri said at the place of Rasafah: By Allah, Hazrat Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) showed goodwill towards Hazrat Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) and adopted obedience. If they (the rebels) had not known about the letter, they would not have returned to Madinah.

It is narrated from Alqamah who says: I said to Mushtahir, "You used to dislike the Day of Dar (the day of the siege of the house of the Prophet), so how did you change your opinion?" He replied, "By Allah, I disliked the Day of Dar, and I brought Umm Habibah bint Abu Sufyan so that I could take her to the house of Uthman and take Uthman out in a litter. But she prevented me from entering and said, 'What do we have to do with Ashtar?' But I saw Talha, Zubair, and some people who pledged allegiance to Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) without any compulsion, and then they broke that pledge. Alqamah says: I said, 'Ibn Zubair was about to say, "Kill me and Malik."' So he replied, 'No, by Allah, I did not remove the sword from Ibn Zubair while I was looking at the soul inside (i.e., I kept seeing the signs of life), because I was angry with them for not giving due respect to the Mother of the Believers, until I took the Mother of the Believers back.' So when I faced them in battle, I did not rely on the strength of my arms alone, but I stood in both stirrups and struck his head with the sword with force, and I saw him being killed. But the one who said, 'Kill me and Malik,' when I met Abdur Rahman bin Atab, I struck him with the sword until both he and I fell from our horses. Then he began to shout, 'Kill me and Malik,' and people were passing by, but they did not know who he meant by Malik, because he did not say Ashtar. If he had said Ashtar, he would have been killed."

It is narrated from Qatadah that Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) took Ashter by the hand and set out until they came to Talhah. Then he said: These people, meaning the people of Egypt, listen to you and obey you, so prevent them from killing Uthman. He replied: The blood which Allah has intended to be shed, I cannot prevent it. So Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) took Ashter by the hand and returned, saying: How great is this assumption of Ibn Hazramiyyah, that my cousin would be killed while he is overpowering me in my own land, as I am witnessing.

It is narrated from Ibn Sirin who says: I do not know that Hazrat Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) was accused of the murder of Hazrat Uthman until after he was given the pledge of allegiance; then people accused him of the murder.

It is narrated from Umairah bin Sa’d that when Talha, Zubair, and their companions came, a man stood up from the middle of the gathering and said,“I am so-and-so, from the tribe of Banu Jusham.”Then he said,“These people (Talha, Zubair, and their companions) have come to you. If they have come out of fear, then they have come from a place where even a bird is safe (meaning Makkah). And if they have come because of the killing of Hazrat Uthman, then he was killed in their presence. My opinion about them is that their animals should be pricked so that they leave from here.”

It is narrated from Abu Uthman that Hazrat Uthman was martyred in the middle of the days of Tashreeq.

It is narrated from Ibn Sirin, he says: When Hazrat Uthman was called a martyr, Adi bin Hatim said that there was no difference of opinion in this matter. Then, on the day of the Battle of Siffin, when his eye was lost, it was said that there was no difference of opinion in the killing of Hazrat Uthman. Hazrat Adi bin Hatim said: Why not, in that too many eyes were lost.

It is narrated from Abu Zubyan Azdi who says that Hazrat Umar said: O Abu Zubyan, how much wealth do you have? I said, twenty-five hundred dirhams. Hazrat Umar said: Hold on to this abundance of wealth, for soon the youths of Quraysh will come and they will withhold these gifts.

Hazrat Abu Hurairah says: By Allah, if you knew what I know, you would laugh little and weep much, and if you knew all that I know, you would laugh less and weep more. By Allah, a murder will occur in this tribe of Quraysh, then a man will come to a heap of filth, he will find a shoe there, and people will say: This is the shoe of a Qurayshi.