It is narrated from Sayyiduna Sahl bin Sa'd (may Allah be pleased with him) that a man asked the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "Is there the flash of lightning in Paradise?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Yes. By the One in whose hand is my soul! Indeed, when Uthman moves from one dwelling to another, Paradise lights up (with his light)." If al-Husayn bin Ubaydullah has preserved it (in this way) from Abd al-Aziz bin Abi Hazim, then it is sahih on the condition of the two Shaykhs.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that when Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) was besieged (in his house), he sought permission to speak. On that occasion Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "Soon there will be tribulation and discord (or he said: discord and tribulation)." We said: "O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)! Then what do you command us to do at that time?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Hold fast to the leader (amir) and his companions," and he (peace and blessings be upon him) pointed towards Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him). This hadith has a sahih chain, but the two Shaykhs did not record it.

It is narrated from Kathir bin al-Salt that on the day Sayyiduna Uthman bin Affan (may Allah be pleased with him) was martyred, he dozed off a little. When he woke up, he said: "Were I not afraid that people would say that Uthman wished for tribulation, I would tell you something." We said: "May Allah set you right, do tell us; we will not say what people say!" So he said: "I have just seen the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) in my dream, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said (to me): 'You will surely spend the coming Friday with us.'" This hadith has a sahih chain, but the two Shaykhs did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Call one of my Companions to me (or he said: I wish one of my Companions were with me)." I said: "Abu Bakr?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "No." I said: "Umar?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "No." I said: "Your cousin Ali?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "No." I said: "Then Uthman?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Yes." The narrator said: So Sayyiduna Uthman came, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said (to me): "Get up (and leave)." Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) began to speak privately to Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him), and Uthman's colour began to change. The narrator said: Then when the Day of the House (the day of Sayyiduna Uthman's siege) came, we said: "Will you not fight (these rebels)?" He said: "No, for the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) took a covenant from me, and I am holding myself patiently to it." This hadith has a sahih chain, but the two Shaykhs did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him): "O Uthman! Indeed Allah Almighty will clothe you in a shirt (the caliphate), so if the hypocrites want to force you to take it off, do not take it off at all." This hadith has a sahih chain, but the two Shaykhs did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said on the pulpit: I saw in a dream as though a rooster pecked me three pecks (or he said: pecked me three times), so I said: "This is an a'jami (a non-Arab)." And I have entrusted this matter of the caliphate after me to these six men with whom the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was pleased at the time of his death: Uthman, Ali, Talhah, al-Zubayr, Abd al-Rahman and Sa'd (may Allah be pleased with them). This hadith has a sahih chain, but the two Shaykhs did not record it. An account of the martyrdom of the Commander of the Faithful, Sayyiduna Uthman bin Affan (may Allah be pleased with him). The first thing of which a scholar may not be ignorant is knowing the cause of what happened to him: namely, the affair of Abdullah bin Sa'd bin Abi Sarh, who was the maternal cousin of Sayyiduna Uthman, and the affair of al-Walid bin Uqbah bin Abi Mu'ayt, who was his brother through his mother. As for Abdullah bin Sa'd bin Abi Sarh, the authentic reports state that he was a scribe of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him); then his breaches of trust in the writing became apparent, so the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) dismissed him, whereupon he apostatised and went off to Makkah. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) had declared his blood lawful on the day of the Conquest of Makkah, but he was not killed until Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) brought him (after he had returned to Islam), so the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) granted him safety and spared his blood.

It is narrated from Muhammad bin Umar that he said: The name of Abu Sarh was Husam bin al-Harith bin Hubayb bin Jadhimah. Imam al-Hakim says: When Abdullah bin Sa'd gained control over Egypt, his descendants continued there, among them Amr bin Sawwad al-Sarhi, the well-known student of Abdullah bin Wahb. As for al-Walid bin Uqbah bin Abi Mu'ayt, he was born during the blessed lifetime of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and was brought to him (peace and blessings be upon him), but he remained deprived of his (peace and blessings be upon him) blessing.

It is narrated from al-Walid bin Uqbah that when the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) conquered Makkah, the people of Makkah began bringing their children, and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) would pass his hand affectionately over their heads and supplicate for them. My father also took me to him (peace and blessings be upon him), and I had been perfumed with "khaluq" (a kind of fragrance). He (peace and blessings be upon him) neither passed his hand over my head nor touched me, and nothing prevented him (peace and blessings be upon him) from that except that my mother had applied "khaluq" to me; so he (peace and blessings be upon him) did not touch me because of that fragrance. Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal says: It is also narrated that on that day this child (out of fear or for some reason) relieved himself, because of which the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) found him distasteful, and therefore neither touched him nor supplicated for him. In reality, fragrance does not prevent supplication, nor is a child guilty of the act of someone else; rather, he was deprived of the blessing of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) because this was his state in the prior knowledge of Allah Almighty.

It is narrated from Tariq bin Shihab al-Ahmasi that Sayyiduna Uthman bin Affan (may Allah be pleased with him) appointed al-Walid bin Uqbah bin Abi Mu'ayt, who was his brother through his mother, as governor of Kufa and its surrounding territory, while Sayyiduna Sa'd bin Abi Waqqas (may Allah be pleased with him) was there. So he came to Sa'd, who seated him beside himself, unaware of his appointment. Then Sa'd asked: "O Abu Wahb! What has brought you here?" He said: "I have come as governor." Sa'd asked: "Over what?" He replied: "Over your own post." At this Sa'd said: "By Allah! I do not know whether you have become wise after me or I have become foolish after you?" Al-Walid replied: "By Allah! Neither have I become wise after you, nor have you become foolish after me; rather, these people (the rulers) have preferred others over you by virtue of their authority." Sa'd said: "You have spoken the truth." Then Sa'd (recited verses): "O hyena! Seize me and drag me away, and give (your companions) the glad tidings of the flesh of a man whose helper is not present today. O Umar! (If only you were here), the hyenas of evil (are all around)." Al-Haytham says: When Sayyiduna Uthman removed al-Walid bin Uqbah from Kufa and made Sa'id bin al-As its governor, Imam al-Sha'bi narrates that when Sa'id bin al-As arrived there he said: "Wash the pulpit so that I may climb it, or so that it may be purified." So the pulpit was washed, until Sa'id bin al-As ascended it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Hawalah al-Asadi (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever is saved from three tribulations has (truly) been saved." The Companions said: "O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)! What are they?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "My death, the killing of a caliph who remains steadfast upon the truth and gives people their rights, and the tribulation of the Dajjal." This hadith has a sahih chain, but the two Shaykhs did not record it.