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tabarani:130Abū Yazīd al-Qarāṭīsī > Asad b. Mūsá > Sallām b. Miskīn > Muḥammad b. Sīrīn > Āmraʾah

[Machine] "A woman said about Uthman, when they surrounded him wanting to kill him, 'If you kill him or leave him, for he used to spend the entire night in a single unit of prayer, reciting the Quran in it.'"  

الطبراني:١٣٠حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو يَزِيدَ الْقَرَاطِيسِيُّ ثنا أَسَدُ بْنُ مُوسَى ثنا سَلَّامُ بْنُ مِسْكِينٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سِيرِينَ قَالَ

قَالَت امْرَأَةُ عُثْمَانَ ؓ حِينَ أَطَافُوا بِهِ يُرِيدُونَ قَتْلَهُ «إِنْ تَقْتُلُوهُ أَوْ تَتْرُكُوهُ فَإِنَّهُ كَانَ يُحْيِي اللَّيْلَ كُلَّهُ فِي رَكْعَةٍ يَجْمَعُ فِيهَا الْقُرْآنَ»  


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ahmad-zuhd:673ʿAbdullāh > Bī > Abū Muʿāwiyah > ʿĀṣim > Ibn Sīrīn

[Machine] A woman said when Uthman was killed, "You have indeed killed him, and surely he used to revive the entire night with the recitation of the Quran in one unit of prayer."  

الزهد لأحمد:٦٧٣حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ حَدَّثَنِي أبِي حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ حَدَّثَنَا عَاصِمٌ عَنِ ابْنِ سِيرِينَ قَالَ

قَالَتِ امْرَأَةُ عُثْمَانَ حِينَ قُتِلَ «لَقَدْ قَتَلْتُمُوهُ وَإِنَّهُ لَيُحْيِي اللَّيْلَ كُلَّهُ بِالْقُرْآنِ فِي رَكْعَةٍ»