Hadith 111

(The book) ‘Al Kafiyah Fi Ibtal Tawbah Al Khatiya’ – From Nuh Bin Darraj, from Is’haq who said, ‘Usman Bin Huneyr called Imran Bin Al-Huseyn Al-Khuzaie, and he was from the companions of Rasool-Allah-saww and sent him, and sent Abu Al-Aswad Al-Dowly with him, to Talha and Al-Zubeyr and Ayesha. He said, ‘Go and find out what this group has come to us for and what are they intending’. Abu Al-Aswad said, ‘We entered to see Ayesha. Imran Bin Al-Husayn said to her, ‘O mother of the believers! What made you arrive to our city, and why did you leave the house of Rasool-Allah-saww in which he-saww had separated from you, and he-saww had ordered you to dwell in your house, and you have known that rather you have attained the merit, and the honour, and the nobility, and have been named as ‘mother of the believers’, the veil has been struck upon you with the clan of Hashim. Thus, they are the greatest of the people with the conferment upon you, and excellent of hand (generosity) with you, and there is nothing in the differing of the people. If there was something for you from the matter then Ali-asws is foremost with the blood of Usman. Fear Allah-azwj and preserve his-asws relationship and his-asws precedence. And you have known that the people had pledged allegiance to your father, and he-asws did not manifest the opposition against him, and Umar pledged allegiance to your father and made the command to be for him beside him (Ali-asws). He-asws was patient and submitted, and did not cease to be righteous with them both. Then (now) it has happened from your matter and the matter of the people and Usman what you know. Then you all pledged allegiance to Ali-asws and we were absent from you, but your messenger came with the allegiance, so we pledged and submitted’. When he had completed his speech, Ayesha said, ‘O Abu Abdullah! Have you met your brother Abu Muhammad? ’ – meaning Talha. He said to her, ‘I have yet to meet him, and it was not for me to come to anyone nor begin with, before you’. She said, ‘Go to him and look at what he is saying’. He (the narrator) said, ‘I came to him and spoke to him, but did not find anything with him from what is liked. So, we went out from his present and came to Al-Zubeyr, and he was reclining (on a pillow), and the talk of Imran had reached him and what he had said to Ayesha. When he saw us, he sat up and said, ‘Does the son-asws of Abu Talib-asws reckon that when he-asws is a king, there isn’t any command for anyone along with him-asws? ’
When Imran saw that, he did not speak to him. Imran came to Usman (Bin Huneyf) and informed him’’. [125]