The Biography of Uthman Ibn Affan R Dhun Noorayn

'UtMs appointment as caliph, his approach to ruling ... 101
"This is my maternal uncle; who dares to compare his maternal
uncle to mine?"I1'
The Prophet & did not establish brotherhood between one
MuhLjir and another, or between one Ansgri and another, rather
he established brotherhood between the MuMjireen and the
An&. He established brotherhood between 'Abd al-RahmSn ibn
'Awf and Sa'd ibn al-Rabee' al-~ns&iI~~ . This hadeeth is well
known and established in the books of Saheeh and elsewhere, and
all the scholars know that.13] The Shi'ah based their reports of
'Abd al-RahmXs favouring 'Uthmh on the fact that they were
related by marriage, but they forgot that the ties of blood are
stronger than ties through marriage, and they also forgot the
nature of the relationship between the believers in the first
generation of Islam, and that it was based on neither ties of blood
nor ties through marriage. The way in which 'Abd al-Rahmgn and
'Uthmgn were related through marriage was that 'Abd al-
Rahmh was married to Umm Kalthoom bint 'Uqbah ibn Abi
Mu'eet, the sister of al-waleed.14'
The Umawi party and the Hsshimi party
The report of Abu Makhnaf suggests that there was a dispute
between Banu Hgshim and Banu Umayyah during the swearing
of allegiance, but this is not true. It is not mentioned in any report,
sound or weak.15] Some historians were influenced by the reports
of the Rgfidi Shi'ah and based their inconect analvsis on these
reports, so they portrayed the discussion among the companions
of the Messenger $& about the appointment of the new caliph as a
tribal dispute,saying that the divided into two goups, the
Umawi party and the Hbhimi party. This is an imaginary idea
['I Snheeh Sunan at-Tirmidhi, 3/220, no. 3752
[21 al-Bukhljri, Kitrib mnliqib a[-Ansrir, no. 3780
Minhrij al-Snnuah an-Nabmuiyynh by Ibn Taymiyah, 6/271,272
'41 ul-Tabaqtt al-Kubra, 3/127
['I al-Kkulafa' al-Riskideen by Ameen al-Qada, p. 78, 79