Nasb-and-the-Nawasib

Al-Subkī mentions:
ل نحفظ عن أحد منهم الرضا بقتله،‏ إنما المحفوظ الثابت عن كل منهم إنكار ذلك
We do not know regarding any of them that they were happy with his
assassination. What is preserved and established from each one of them is
that they abhorred it. 1
And Ibn Kathīr 2 mentions:
أما ما يذكره بعض الناس من أن بعض الصحابة اسلمه ورضي بقتله فهذا ل يصح عن أحد من الصحابة
أنه رضي بقتل عثمان رضي الله عنه،‏ بل كلهم كرهه ومقته وسب من فعله،‏ ولكن بعضهم كان يود لو خلع
نفسه من المر
As for the claim of some people that some of the Ṣaḥābah M surrendered
him and were happy with his murder, it is not authentically proven from
any of the Ṣaḥābah that he was happy with the killing of ʿUthmān I.
Rather each one of them despised it and abhorred it, and chastised those
who did it. However, some of them desired that he depose himself. 3
What further enforces this is the following narration of ʿAlqamah ibn Waqqāṣ
al-Laythī: 4
1 Al-Taqrīr wa al-Taḥbīr 2/347.
2 Ismāʿīl ibn ʿUmar ibn Kathīr al-Qurashī al-Buṣrawī (attributed to Buṣrah a village in the outskirts of
Damascus), Abū al-Fidāʾ al-Dimashqī. He taught and issued Fatwas, and mastered the sciences of Fiqh,
Tafsīr, Ḥadīth and history. He passed away in 774 A.H. Some of his works are: Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm,
al-Bidāyah wa al-Nihāyah, and Ṭabaqāt al-Fuqahāʾ. See: al-Durar al-Kāminah 1/445; Dhayl Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥuffāẓ
p. 57; Shadharāt al-Dhahab 6/231; al-Dāwūdī: Ṭabaqāt al-Mufassirīn p. 260.
3 Al-Bidāyah wa al-Nihāyah 7/198.
4 ʿAlqamah ibn Waqqāṣ ibn Muḥṣan al-Laythī al-ʿUtwārī. One of the scholars of Madīnah who met a
group of the Ṣaḥābah M and narrated from them. There is a possibility that he was a Ṣaḥābī. He
is deemed authentic by Ibn Saʿd and al-Nasāʾī. He wouldn’t narrate much ḥadīths. He passed away
in Madīnah after 80 A.H. His narrations feature in all six collections. See: Tadhkirah al-Ḥuffāẓ 1/53;
Tahdhīb al-Kamāl 20/313; Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ 4/61; Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb 7/247.
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