[Machine] "O Commander of the Believers, what do you say about Uthman?" The two men asked him. Ali replied, "What are you asking for? About a man who disbelieved in Allah after having faith and became a hypocrite?" The man said to them, "I am not asking either of you, nor did I come to you." Ali then said to them, "I do not say what they say." They both said to him, "Then why did we kill him?" He said, "I had authority over you, and you misused that authority towards the end of his life and you became angry. And I swear by Allah, I hope that both I and Uthman will be as Allah said, 'And We removed whatever was in their breasts of resentment, [so they became] brothers on thrones facing each other.'"  

يَا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ مَا تَقُولُ فِي عُثْمَانَ؟ فَبَدَرَهُ الرَّجُلَانِ فَقَالَا عَمَّ تَسْأَلُ؟ عَنْ رَجُلٍ كَفَرَ بِاللهِ مِنْ بَعْدِ إِيمَانِهِ وَنَافَقَ؟ فَقَالَ الرَّجُلُ لَهُمَا لَسْتُ إِيَّاكُمَا أَسْأَلُ وَلَا إِلَيْكُمَا جِئْتُ فَقَالَ لَهُ عَلِيٌّ «لَسْتُ أَقُولُ مَا قَالَا» فَقَالَا لَهُ جَمِيعًا فِلِمَ قَتَلْنَاهُ إِذًا؟ قَالَ وُلِّيَ عَلَيْكُمْ فَأَسَاءَ الْوَلَايَةَ فِي آخِرِ أَيَّامِهِ وَجَزَعْتُمْ فَأَسَأْتُمُ الْجَزَعَ وَاللهِ إِنِّي لَأَرْجُو أَنْ أَكُونَ أَنَا وَعُثْمَانُ كَمَا قَالَ اللهُ ﷻ {وَنَزَعْنَا مَا فِي صُدُورِهِمْ مِنْ غِلٍّ إِخْوَانًا عَلَى سُرُرٍ مُتَقَابِلِينَ}