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Secondly, some people, like Ashtar, 1 who were part of the siege and the murder
of ʿUthmān I were considered to be from the men of ʿAlī I, in fact, even
from his close associates. Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr, 2 an accomplice, was likewise
praised by ʿAlī I and accorded preference, even though in actual fact he praised
him and gave him preference due to his worship and exertion in devotion. 3
Thirdly, immediately after the murder of ʿUthmān I when people were still
confused and appalled these wretched people pledged their allegiance to ʿAlī
I. 4 Thereafter they coerced many people to pledge their allegiance to him,
especially those whose opposition and attraction of followership they feared.
Hence Ṭalḥah I was brought and it is said that he was brought by force and
was coerced to pledge his allegiance. 5
Al-Dhahabī mentions:
كان طلحة أول من بايع عليا أرهقه قتلة عثمان وأحضروه حتى بايع
1 Mālik ibn al-Ḥārith al-Nakhaʿī: the head of all the Yamānī tribes and famous warrior. He was known
as ‘al-Ashtar’. His eye was gouged on the day of Yarmūk. He was one of those who incited the people
against ʿUthmān I and fought him. He participated with ʿAlī I in all his battles. And when ʿAlī
I was returning from Ṣiffīn he pointed him as the governor of Egypt but he passed away in 37
A.H. en-route due to being poisoned, as is speculated. His narration appears in Sunan al-Nasāʾī. See: al-
Ṭabaqāt al-Kubrā 6/213; Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ 4/34; Tahdhīb al-Kamāl 27/126; Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb 10/10.
2 See: Tamhīd al-Awāʾil wa Talkhīṣ al-Dalāʾil p. 554; Minhāj al-Sunnah al-Nabawiyyah 2/66. Muḥammad
ibn Abī Bakr al-Ṣiddīq. He was born in the farewell Ḥajj. ʿUthmān I appointed him over Egypt
but he later joined the ranks of the rebels and marched to besiege ʿUthmān I till he was killed.
Thereafter he joined the ranks of ʿAlī I and became one of his commanders. He appointed him as
the governor of Egypt in 37 A.H, but subsequently suffered defeat at the hands of the army of ʿUthmān
I. He thus hid away and when he was found he was killed and stuffed into the stomach of a dead
donkey and was burnt. He was less than thirty years old. See: al-Istīʿāb 3/1366; Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ
3/481; al-Bidāyah wa al-Nihāyah 7/319.
3 Al-Istīʿāb 3.1367; Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb 9/70.
4 Al-Muntaqā min Minhāj al-Iʿtidāl 1/59.
5 Ibid. 1/59.
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