[Machine] He said, when the people were in an uproar over the matter of Uthman, "O people, do not kill this old man and seek his repentance, for a nation will not kill their prophet's Umah until the blood of seventy thousand of them is shed, and a nation will not kill their caliphate's Umah until the blood of forty thousand of them is shed." They did not pay attention to what he said and killed him, and he sat with Ali on the road and asked him, "Where do you want to go?" He said, "I want to go to the land of Iraq." He said, "Do not go to Iraq and go to the pulpit of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ ." So the people rushed towards him from the companions of Ali and they intended to harm him. Ali said, "Leave him, for he is a man from us, the people of the household." When Ali was killed, Ibn Salam said to Ibn Maqil, "This is the head of the forty, and there will be a reconciliation on it, and a nation will not kill their prophet's Umah except seventy thousand of them are killed, and a nation will not kill their caliphate's Umah except forty thousand of them are killed."  

أَنَّهُ قَالَ حِينَ هَاجَ النَّاسُ فِي أَمْرِ عُثْمَانَ «أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ لَا تَقْتُلُوا هَذَا الشَّيْخَ وَاسْتَعْتِبُوهُ فَإِنَّهُ لَنْ تَقْتُلَ أُمَّةٌ نَبِيَّهَا فَيَصْلُحُ أَمْرُهُمْ حَتَّى يُرَاقَ دِمَاءُ سَبْعِينَ أَلْفًا مِنْهُمْ وَلَنْ تَقْتُلَ أُمَّةٌ خَلِيفَتَهَا فَيَصْلُحُ أَمْرُهُمْ حَتَّى يُرَاقَ دِمَاءُ أَرْبَعِينَ أَلْفًا مِنْهُمْ» فَلَمْ يَنْظُرُوا فِيمَا قَالَ وَقَتَلُوهُ فَجَلَسَ لِعَلِيٍّ فِي الطَّرِيقِ فَقَالَ أَيْنَ تُرِيدُ؟ فَقَالَ أُرِيدُ أَرْضَ الْعِرَاقِ قَالَ لَا تَأْتِ الْعِرَاقَ وَعَلَيْكَ بِمِنْبَرِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ فَوَثَبَ إِلَيْهِ النَّاسُ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ عَلِيٍّ وَهَمُّوا بِهِ فَقَالَ عَلِيٌّ دَعُوهُ فَإِنَّهُ رَجُلٌ مِنَّا أَهْلَ الْبَيْتِ فَلَمَّا قُتِلَ عَلِيٌّ قَالَ ابْنُ سَلَامٍ لِابْنِ مَعْقِلٍ «هَذِهِ رَأْسُ الْأَرْبَعِينَ وَسَيَكُونُ عَلَى رَأْسِهَا صُلْحٌ وَلَنْ تَقْتُلَ أُمُّةٌ نَبِيَّهَا إِلَّا قُتِلَ بِهِ سَبْعُونَ أَلْفًا وَلَنْ تَقْتُلَ أُمَّةٌ خَلِيفَتَهَا إِلَّا قُتِلَ بِهِ أَرْبَعُونَ أَلْفًا»