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Khilāfah was within those thirty years. He also informed that he will be on the
truth and ordered him not to remove the garb Allah E clothes him with, and
he described those who will want to depose him as hypocrites. 1
Nonetheless, in this environment which was replete with criticisms and
objections a group of the mischief makers was constantly going to some of the
Ṣaḥābah M with their complaints regarding some of the governors of ʿUthmān
I. As a result those Ṣaḥābah M spoke to the Khalīfah regarding them and
consequently he dismissed some of them. But despite that the criticisms of the
mischief makers did not stop. 2
In actual fact some of these governors had opened the door of criticism,
unwittingly, against ʿUthmān I in which every conspirator found room
for criticism, because of his evil doings, either with those under him or in his
personal conduct.
Ibn Khaldūn 3 mentions:
ثم انتقل الخالف بين عثمان ومن معه من الصحابة ونقموا عليه امتناعه عن العزل فأبى إل أن يكون على
جرحة،‏ ثم نقلوا النكير إلى غير ذلك من أفعاله،‏ وهو متمسك بالجتهاد وهم أيضا كذلك.‏ ثم تجمع قوم
من الغوغاء وجاؤوا إلى المدينة يظهرون طلب النصفة من عثمان،‏ وهم يضمرون خالف ذلك من قتله،‏
فيهم من البصرة والكوفة ومصر،‏ وقام معهم في ذلك علي وعائشة والزبير وطلحة وغيرهم يحاولون
تسكين المور ورجوع عثمان إلى رأيهم.‏
1 Musnad Aḥmad 6/75; Sunan al-Tirmidhī 5/628; Sunan al-Tirmidhī 5/628; Sunan Ibn Mājah 1/41. Al-
Albānī deemed the narration Ṣaḥīḥ in his Ṣaḥīḥ Ibn Mājah 1/25.
2 Minhāj al-Sunnah al-Nabawiyyah 6/155, 248; Muqaddamah Ibn Khaldūn p. 216.
3 ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Khaldūn al-Ḥaḍramī al-Tūnisī. A jurist, a scholar and a
sociologist. He was born in Tūnis in the year 732 A.H. but his family was originally from Ishbīliyyah
(Spain). He shifted from position to position till he settled as the supreme judge of the Mālikīs in
Egypt. Thereafter he resigned and freed himself for teaching and authoring books. He passed away
in 808 A.H. Some of his books are: Muqaddamah, Sharḥ al-Burdah, and Risālah fī al-Manṭiq. See: al-Ḍawʾ
al-Lāmiʿ 4/145; Shadharāt al-Dhahab 7/76; al-Aʿlām 3/330; Muʿjam al-Muʾallifīn 5/188.
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