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tabarani:8836Abū Yazīd al-Qarāṭīsī > Asad b. Mūsá > Ḥammād b. Salamah > ʿĀṣim Ibn Bahdalah > Abū Wāʾil > Ibn Masʿūd Sār from al-Madīnah > al-Kūfah Ḥīn Āstukhlif ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān Faḥamid Allāh And ʾAthná ʿAlayh Thum > Ammā Baʿd Faʾin Amīr al-Muʾminīn ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb Māt Falam Nar Nashīj Akthar from Yawmaʾidh Waʾinnā Ājtamaʿnā Aṣḥāb Muḥammad Walam Naʾl

[Machine] "About our best, the one above us, we pledged allegiance to him, so pledge allegiance to the Commander of the Believers, Uthman bin Affan."  

الطبراني:٨٨٣٦حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو يَزِيدَ الْقَرَاطِيسِيُّ ثنا أَسَدُ بْنُ مُوسَى ثنا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ عَاصِمِ ابْنِ بَهْدَلَةَ عَنْ أَبِي وَائِلٍ أَنَّ ابْنَ مَسْعُودٍ سَارَ مِنَ الْمَدِينَةِ إِلَى الْكُوفَةِ حِينَ اسْتُخْلِفَ عُثْمَانُ بْنُ عَفَّانَ فَحَمِدَ اللهَ وَأَثْنَى عَلَيْهِ ثُمَّ قَالَ «أَمَّا بَعْدُ فَإِنَّ أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ §عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ مَاتَ فَلَمْ نَرَ نَشِيجًا أَكْثَرَ مِنْ يَوْمَئِذٍ وَإِنَّا اجْتَمَعْنَا أَصْحَابَ مُحَمَّدٍ وَلَمْ نَأْلُ

عَنْ خَيْرِنَا ذَا فُوقٍ فَبَايَعْنَاهُ فَبَايِعُوا أَمِيرَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ عُثْمَانَ بْنَ عَفَّانَ»