کتاب الفتن · نُعیم بن حماد

I see you standing, Abu Dharr. How will you be, Abu Dharr, if they expel you from Medina? What if they take you out of it? If they take you out of it? No, but listen and obey, even if it is a black slave

I was a man from the people of Mecca, and I had my birth, my home, and my money. I did not stay there until Allah Almighty sent His Prophet, ﷺ. So I believed in him and followed him, so I stayed there as long as Allah wanted me to stay. Then I left it and fled with my religion to Medina, and I did not stay there until Allah gathered my money and family for me, and today I am fleeing with my religion from Medina to Mecca just as I fled with my religion from Mecca to Medina.

As for the scratching on his neck, no, but he pledged allegiance despite his unwillingness

Days and nights will not pass until the affairs of this nation gather around a man with a wide mouth and a large mouth, who eats and is not satisfied

To you, you have seen me fighting with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ in this place, the polytheists. Go, may Allah bless you.

Ibn Abi Adi told us, on the authority of Ibn Aoun, on the authority of Muhammad, he said: When they gathered at the door of Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him), he was told: If you go out with your battalion, perhaps if they see it they will return? He said: Then Othman went out with his battalion. He said: A man of those would draw, and a man of these would draw. So they were disturbed by their swords, and Uthman began to notice, so he said: “Are they fighting against me and my leadership?” So he returned and entered the house, and I do not know what he left after that until he was killed. Muhammad said: The strife occurred when it broke out, and the companions of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ numbered ten thousand or more, and if they had been given permission, they would have beaten them until they expelled them from the lands. Medina, Muhammad said: Ibn al-Zubayr, Ibn Umar, and al-Hasan ibn Ali came to him. Ibn Aoun said, and Nafi’ said: Ibn Umar wore armor twice, and I was informed that Abu Hurairah used to go around the house and say: “Um, good or good.”