Muhammad bin Jarir said: This view is wrong, and I think that whoever holds it either does not know the time of the martyrdom of Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him), or else he does not know how to calculate. For there is no disagreement among all the biographers that Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) was martyred in Dhu al-Hijjah of the year 35 AH, and a group of them say that he was martyred on the eighteenth of Dhu al-Hijjah. So if his martyrdom was in Dhu al-Hijjah and Sayyiduna Hudhayfah lived forty days after him, then his death necessarily falls in the following year (36 AH).