Hazrat Masruq (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates that when Hazrat Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) was killed, at that time Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) said: "You people have abandoned him just as filth is abandoned on a clean garment. Then you brought him close and slaughtered him as a ram is slaughtered. Why did this not happen before?" So Hazrat Masruq (may Allah have mercy on him) said to her: "This happened because of your action, that you wrote letters to the people ordering them to rebel!" The narrator says: Upon this, Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) said: "No! By the One in whom all believers have faith and with whom the disbelievers disbelieved, I have not written anything with black (ink) on white (paper) until I sat in my place." Imam A'mash (may Allah have mercy on him) says: Thus, their opinion was that all this was written on her tongue.