Hadith 32

he son of a paternal aunt of Amir Al-momineen-asws, and she was Safiya daughter of Abdul Muttalib-as, and Abu Talib-as was his maternal uncle. There remained four from the six. Sa’d Bin Abi Waqas said, ‘And I have gifted my right to son of my uncle Abdul Rahman! ’ And that was because there were both from the clan of Zuhra, and Sa’ad knew that the command would not be complete for him. When there did not remain except the three, Abdul Rahman said to Ali-asws and Usman, ‘Which one of you would like to exclude himself from the caliphate and the choosing to be for him regarding the remaining two? ! ’ But no one of them spoke. Abdul Rahman said, ‘I keep you all as witness and I have excluded myself from the caliphate upon a condition that I choose one of you two (Ali-asws or Usman)’. They were both silent. He began with Ali-asws. He said to him-asws, ‘I shall pledge allegiance to you upon the Book of Allah-azwj and Sunnah of His-azwj Rasool-saww and the ways of the two sheikhs Abu Bakr and Umar’. He-asws said: ‘But upon the Book of Allah-azwj and Sunnah of His-azwj Rasool-saww, and struggle of my-asws opinion’. He turned away from him to Usman and presented that to him. He said, ‘Yes’. He repeated to Ali-asws, and he-asws repeated his-asws words. Abdul Rahman did that three times. When he saw that Ali-asws is not returning from what he-asws had said, and Usman had said yes to him in answer, he clapped upon the hand of Usman and said, ‘The greetings be unto you, O commander of the faithful! ’
Ali-asws said: ‘By Allah-azwj! You both did not do it except that you wished from it what your companion had wished from his companion. May Allah-azwj Perfume between you both the perfume of Manshim (a perfume seller selling to the warring parties)’’. They said, ‘There was a spoiling after that between Usman and Abdul Rahman, so one of them did not speak to the other until Abdul Rahman died. And it is reported by Ibn Abi Al-Hadeed, from Abi Hilal Al-Askary in the book ‘Al-Awail’ – ‘The supplication of Ali-asws regarding Usman and Abdul Rahman was Answered. They did not die except staying away from each other, inimical. When Usman built his high castle at Al-Zarwah, and prepared a lot of food and called the people to it, among them was Abdul Rahman. When he looked at the construction and the banquet, he said, ‘O Ibn Affan! It has been ratified upon you what we used to belie regarding you, and I seek Refuge of Allah-azwj from having pledged allegiance to you’. Usman was angered, and said, ‘Expel him from me, O slave! ’ They expelled him, and he instructed the people that they do not sit with him. So, no one used to come to him except Ibn Abbas. He would come to him and he would learn the Quran from him and the Obligations, and Abdul Rahman fell ill.