Who really killed ‘Uthman?

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Contents
1. INTRODUCTION 4
2. IDENTIFYING ‘UTHMAN’S KILLERS 5
2.1 HADHRATH AYESHA’S LEAD ROLE IN KILLING ‘UTHMAN 5
2.2 AYESHA’S RETHINK ABOUT ‘ UTHMAN AFTER HIS DEATH 5
2.3 SAHABA HAD HIGHLIGHTED AYESHA’S SHIFT IN POLICY ON UTHMAN 7
2.4 TALHA AND ZUBAYR’S LEAD ROLE IN KILLING ‘UTHMAN 8
2.5 SAHABA THAT PARTICIPATED IN BADR ALSO PARTICIPATED IN THE KILLING OF
‘UTHMAN 11
2.6 THE MUHAJIR, ANSAR AND OTHER FAITHFUL LIVING IN MADINA KILLED UTHMAN 12
2.7 THE BELIEVERS MURDERED ‘UTHMAN 13
2.8 ‘UTHMAN WAS KILLED BY HIS OWN GOVERNORS / MILITARY MEN 13
2.9 WHY DID THE SAHABA NOT AID THE BELEAGUERED ‘UTHMAN? 13
2.10 WHY DID ‘UTHMAN NOT DEFEND HIMSELF? 14
2.11 DID IMAMS HASAN AND HUSAYN (AS) PROTECT ‘UTHMAN? 15
2.12 LIST OF ‘UTHMAN’S MURDERERS AND AN INVITATION TO TRUTH 17
3. IDENTIFYING THE USUAL SUSPECTS 19
3.1 ANALYZING THE ISNAD CONCERNING THE IBN SABA REPORT 19
3.2 AN APPEAL TO LOGIC 21
3.2.1. THE SAHABA WROTE TO PEOPLE INCITING THEM TO RISE UP AGAINST ‘UTHMAN 21
3.3 SUSPECT TWO – THE EGYPTIANS 22
3.3.1. THE SAHABA AND THEIR CHILDREN COLLUDED WITH THE EGYPTIANS TO KILL
‘UTHMAN 22
3.3.2. A SAHABA THAT PLEDGED ALLEGIANCE UNDER THE TREE OF RIDHWAN COMMANDED
THE EGYPTIAN REBELS 23
3.4 MU’AWIYA’S COUSIN MUHAMMAD BIN ABI HUDHIFA PLAYED A LEAD ROLE
ALONGSIDE THE EGYPTIANS IN KILLING ‘UTHMAN 23
3.5 TALHA ADVISED THE EGYPTIANS DURING THE SIEGE OF ‘UTHMAN’S PALACE 23
4. DID ‘UTHMAN DIE A ‘MARTYR’? 26
4.1 ‘UTHMAN’S BODY WAS UNATTENDED FOR THREE DAYS. COMPANIONS’ NOT BURYING
HIM PROVES THAT THEY DID NOT DEEM HIM TO BE A MARTYR 28
4.2 SOME QUESTIONS IN RELATION TO UTHMAN’S FUNERAL 30
5. VIRTUES OF UTHMAN IN SUNNI BOOKS 31
5.1 ANSAR’S APPRAISAL OF UTHMAN 31
5.2 THE EFFORTS OF AHL’UL SUNNAH TO SLANDER RASULULLAH (S) SO AS TO ELEVATE
UTHMAN 32
5.3 UTHMAN ‘HAYYA’ HAD SEX WITH HIS DEAD WIFE 32
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