The narrator, Musa bin Hakim, reports that Ibn ‘Amir wrote a letter to Sayyiduna ‘Uthman Ghani (may Allah be pleased with him). I went to his service, and by that time, those people had already surrounded him. I sewed that letter into my garment and placed it inside my cloak. Then I put on a woman’s dress and, in this way, entered the house of Sayyiduna ‘Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him). I sat down before him, tore my cloak, and he kept watching. I handed the letter to him; he read it, then turned his face toward the mosque, where Sayyiduna Talhah (may Allah be pleased with him) was sitting on the eastern side of the mosque. He called out:“O Talhah!”Sayyiduna Talhah (may Allah be pleased with him) replied:“I am here!”Sayyiduna ‘Uthman Ghani (may Allah be pleased with him) said:“I ask you by Allah’s name, do you know that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘Who will purchase this piece of land and thereby expand the mosque, and in return he will receive this reward?’ So I bought it from my wealth.”Sayyiduna Talhah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Allah knows that it is so. Then Sayyiduna ‘Uthman Ghani (may Allah be pleased with him) said:“Now you people are in this mosque in a state of security, and I am in it in a state of fear.”Then Sayyiduna ‘Uthman Ghani (may Allah be pleased with him) said:“O Talhah!”He said:“I am here!”Then Sayyiduna ‘Uthman Ghani (may Allah be pleased with him) said:“I ask you by Allah’s name, do you know that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘Who will purchase the well of Rumah and dedicate it for the Muslims, and in return he will receive such and such reward?’ So I bought it from my wealth.”He said: Allah knows that it is so. Then Sayyiduna ‘Uthman Ghani (may Allah be pleased with him) said:“O Talhah!”He said:“I am here!”Then Sayyiduna ‘Uthman Ghani (may Allah be pleased with him) said:“I ask you by Allah’s name, do you know that I provided one hundred camels for the expedition of Tabuk?”Sayyiduna Talhah (may Allah be pleased with him) replied: Allah knows that it is so. After this, Sayyiduna Talhah (may Allah be pleased with him) said:“O Allah! To the best of my knowledge, Sayyiduna ‘Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) is oppressed.”