Documents of the Right Word

and untied him. He was Rasûlullah’s ‘sall-Allâhu alaihi wa sallam’
clerk of Wahy, (that is, it was his duty to write down the âyats
revealed to the Prophet). The Messenger ‘alaihis-salâm’ married
his daughter Ruqayya to him with the command of Allâhu ta’âlâ.
When Ruqayya passed away in Medîna during the Holy War of
Bedr, the Prophet gave him his second daughter Umm-i-
Ghulthum. When she, too, passed away, in the ninth year of the
Hegira, the Messenger stated, ‘If I had other daughters I would
give them, too, to ’Uthmân!’ When he gave his second daughter
Umm-i-Ghulthum, he said to her, ‘O my daughter! Your husband
’Uthmân resembles your ancestor Prophet Ibrâhîm and your
father Muhammad ‘alaihim-as-salâm’ more than anyone else
does.’ No one except hadrat ’Uthmân has had the lot of marrying
a Prophet’s two daughters. When hadrat ’Uthman came near the
Messenger ‘alaihis-salâm’ the Prophet covered his blessed feet
with his skirts. When hadrat Âisha asked him why he did so he
stated, ‘Angels feel shame before him. Should I not?’ He stated in
a hadîth-i-sherîf, ‘’Uthmân is my brother in Paradise and will
always be with me.’ In the Holy War of Tabuk the number of
Muslim soldiers was too high for the food and equipment
available. Trouble was ahead. Hadrat ’Uthmân brought three
thousand camels, seventy horses and ten thousand golds out of his
own commercial property. After distributing these to the soldiers,
Rasûlullah stated, ‘From today on, no sins will be recorded for
’Uthmân.’ It is stated in a hadîth-i-sherîf, which exists in the book
Jâmi’us-saghîr by hadrat Imâm-i-Suyûtî ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ
aleyh’: ‘With ’Uthmân’s intercession, seventy thousand Muslims
who are to go to Hell will enter Paradise without any questioning.’
Hadrat ’Uthmân possessed very much religious lore. He and
hadrat ’Umar would have such ardent discussions on religious
knowledge that people who heard them would think they were
quarrelling.”
It is stated in the book Tuhfa: During his caliphate hadrat
’Uthmân would employ everyone at a place suitable for his
personality. He would assign everyone a duty within his
capability. The Khalîfa is not supposed to know the unknown.
Hadrat ’Uthmân appointed people he trusted, people he knew as
good businessmen, people he considered to be trustworthy and
just, and people he thought would obey his commands to
administrative positions. No one has the right to censure him on
account of this. People who are against him are trying to
misrepresent his rightful behaviour as unrighteous. Hadrat
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