Hadith 110

I (Majlisi) am saying, ‘And Ibn Abi Al Hadeed has said in the commentary of Nahj (Al-Balagah), ‘Everyone from the types of the people of Seerah and the Ahadeeth has said that Ayesha was from the severest of the people against Usman to the extent that she brought out a cloth (shirt) of Rasool-Allah-saww and installed it in her house, and she was saying to the ones entering it to see her, ‘This is a cloth of Rasool-Allah-azwj not having decayed yet, and Usman has already decayed his-saww Sunnah’. And they said, ‘The first one to name Usman as ‘No’sal’ was Ayesha. And Al No’sa is one of a lot of hair of the beard and the body, and she used to say, ‘Kill No’sal! May Allah-azwj Kill No’sal’’. And it is reported by Al-Madainy in the book ‘Al-Jamal’. He said, ‘When Usman was killed, Ayesha was at Makkah, and (news of) his killing reached her, and she was with nobles, and she was in no doubt that Talha was the master of the command (caliph), and she said, ‘Remoteness be for No’sal (Usman) and destruction. Where is that finger, O Abu Shibl, O cousin? It is as if I am looking at his fingers and he is being pledged to, and urging it’. He said, ‘And Talha, when Usman was killed, had taken the keys of the public treasury, and he had seized the captains of Usman who were in his house, and handed these to Ali-asws. And Abu Mikhnaf said in his book, ‘Ayesha, when (news of) the killing of Usman reached her, and she was at Makkah, she returned quickly and she was saying, ‘Oh the one with the fingers for Allah-azwj, is your father’. But, they had found Talha and Al-Zubeyr as matches for her. Then she ended up to the nobles, Ubeydullah Bin Abu Salama welcomed her. She said to him, ‘What (news) is with you? ’ He said Usman is killed’. She said, ‘Then what? ’ He said, ‘Then the matters flowed with them to goodly flow. They pledged allegiance to Ali-asws’. She said, ‘I would love it if the sky were to fall upon the earth if this is done. Look at what you are saying! ’ He said, ‘It is what I said to you, O mother of the believers’. She squealed (lamented). He said to her, ‘What is your concern, O mother of the believers? By Allah! I do not know between the two sides anyone who is foremost with it than him-asws, nor more rightful, nor do I see any match for him-asws in the entirety of his situations, then what is that you are disliking of his-asws governance? ’ She did not respond any answer’. And in a report of Qays Bin Abu Hazim, ‘Then she returned her rides to Makkah. I saw her in her journey addressing herself, ‘The son of Affan has been killed unjustly! ’ I said to her, ‘O mother of the believers! Did I not hear you just now saying, ‘May Allah-azwj Distance him’, and I have seen you before to be the severest of the people against him, and saying ugly words regarding him? ’
She said, ‘That has happened, but I looked into his affairs and they saw him to have repented until when then had left him like the white silver (pure of sins), they came to him when he was Fasting, in Ihraam in a sacred month, and they killed him’. He (the narrator) said, ‘And Talha and Al-Zubeyr wrote a letter to Ayesha, and she was at