Nasb-and-the-Nawasib

One such issue was when some people came to ʿAlī I complaining about the
Zakāt collectors of ʿUthmān I. Subsequently he sent his son, Muḥammad ibn
al-Ḥanafiyyah, with the letter of Rasūl Allah H which contained the details
of Ṣadaqah. ʿUthmān I rejected it saying:
أغنها عنا
Remove it away from us. 1
This is a phrase which denotes discarding and ignoring. 2 The sternness in the
rejection of ʿUthmān I is quite evident.
Nonetheless, it is established from ʿAlī I that he said:
إني لرجو أن أكون أنا وعثمان ممن قال الله تعالى فيهم وَ‏ نَزَ‏ عْ‏ نَا مَ‏ ا فِي صُ‏ دُ‏ ورِهِ‏ م مِّ‏ نْ‏ غِ‏ لٍّ‏ إِخْ‏ وَ‏ اناًا عَ‏ لَى ٰ سُ‏ رُ‏ رٍ‏
مُّ‏ تَقَ‏ ابِلِينَ‏ .
I have hope that I and ʿUthmān will be from those regarding whom Allah
said, “We removed what was in their hearts of rancour, and they will be
brothers reclining on cushions facing one another” 3,4
And ʿĀʾishah J said:
غضبت لكم من السوط ول أغضب لعثمان من السيف
I was angered when you suffered under the whip; shall I not be angered
when ʿUthmān is put to the sword? 5
She also said:
1 The narration of Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥanafiyyah which appears in Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī: chapter of Jihād:
sub-chapter regarding the mention of the shield, the staff, the sword, the bowl, and the ring of Nabī…
ḥadīth no. 2944. For more details see: Minhāj al-Sunnah al-Nabawiyyah 8/279.
2 ʿUmdah al-Qārī 15/34.
3 Sūrah al-Ḥijr: 47.
4 Tārīkh Dimashq 39/452; al-Bidāyah wa al-Nihāyah 7/193.
5 Tārīkh Dimashq 39/487; al-Bidāyah wa al-Nihāyah 7/195.
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