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Someone said to Usama, "Will you not talk to this (Uthman)?" Usama said, "I talked to him (secretly)
without being the first man to open an evil door. I will never tell a ruler who rules over two men or
more that he is good after I heard Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) saying, 'A man will be brought and put in Hell (Fire)
and he will circumambulate (go around and round) in Hell (Fire) like a donkey of a (flour) grinding
mill, and all the people of Hell (Fire) will gather around him and will say to him, O so-and-so! Didn't
you use to order others for good and forbid them from evil?' That man will say, 'I used to order others
to do good but I myself never used to do it, and I used to forbid others from evil while I myself used to
do evil.' "
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 92, Hadith 49
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The Prophet (ﷺ) went out to one of the gardens of Medina for some business and I went out to follow him.
When he entered the garden, I sat at its gate and said to myself, "To day I will be the gatekeeper of the
Prophet though he has not ordered me." The Prophet (ﷺ) went and finished his need and went to sit on the
constructed edge of the well and uncovered his legs and hung them in the well. In the meantime Abu
Bakr came and asked permission to enter. I said (to him), "Wait till I get you permission." Abu Bakr
waited outside and I went to the Prophet (ﷺ) and said, "O Allah's Prophet! Abu Bakr asks your permission
to enter." He said, "Admit him, and give him the glad tidings of entering Paradise." So Abu Bakr
entered and sat on the right side of the Prophet (ﷺ) and uncovered his legs and hung them in the well.
Then `Umar came and I said (to him), "Wait till I get you permission." The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Admit him
and give him the glad tidings of entering Paradise." So `Umar entered and sat on the left side of the
Prophet and uncovered his legs and hung them in the well so that one side of the well became fully
occupied and there remained no place for any-one to sit. Then `Uthman came and I said (to him),
"Wait till I get permission for you." The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Admit him and give him the glad tidings of
entering Paradise with a calamity which will befall him." When he entered, he could not find any
place to sit with them so he went to the other edge of the well opposite them and uncovered his legs
and hung them in the well. I wished that a brother of mine would come, so I invoked Allah for his
coming. (Ibn Al-Musaiyab said, "I interpreted that (narration) as indicating their graves. The first three
are together and the grave of `Uthman is separate from theirs.")
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During the battle of Al-Jamal, Allah benefited me with a Word (I heard from the Prophet). When the
Prophet heard the news that the people of the Persia had made the daughter of Khosrau their Queen
(ruler), he said, "Never will succeed such a nation as makes a woman their ruler."