Hadith No: 4
Ibn al-Athir - Asad al-Ghabah fi Ma'rifat al-Sahabah - Letter H
Chapter on H and Kaf - 1217: al-Hakam ibn Abi al-As ibn Umayyah ibn Abd Shams ibn Abd Manaf al-Qurashi al-Umayi, Abu Marwan ibn al-Hakam, is counted among the people of Hijaz, a contemporary of Uthman ibn Affan (may Allah be pleased with him). He accepted Islam on the Day of the Conquest .... Umar ibn Muhammad ibn al-Mu'ammar al-Baghdadi and others narrated to us, saying: Abu al-Qasim Hibatu Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Hariri narrated to us, saying: Abu Ishaq al-Barmaki narrated to us, saying: Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Abdullah ibn Khalaf ibn Bakhit al-Duqqaq narrated to us, saying: Abdullah ibn Sulayman ibn al-Ash'ath, Abu Bakr ibn Abi Dawud, narrated to us, saying: Muhammad ibn Khalaf al-Asqalani narrated to us, saying: Mu'adh ibn Khalid narrated to us, saying: Zuhayr ibn Muhammad narrated to us from Salih ibn Abi Salih, who said: Nafi ibn Jubayr ibn Mut'im narrated to me from his father
who said: We were with the Prophet (peace be upon him and his holy progeny), and al-Hakam ibn Abi al-As passed by. The Prophet (peace be upon him and his holy progeny) said: "Woe to my Ummah from what is in the loins of this one," and he is the Castaway of the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his holy progeny). He exiled him from Medina to Ta'if, and his son Marwan left with him. It is said that Marwan was born in Ta'if, and there is disagreement about the reason that necessitated the expulsion by the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his holy progeny). It is said that he used to eavesdrop on the private conversations of the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his holy progeny) and look into them from the doorway of his house, and that he was the one whom the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his holy progeny) intended to gouge his eye out with a stone in his hand when he observed him looking from the door. Others said that he would imitate the Prophet's (peace be upon him and his holy progeny) movements and some of his actions, and the Prophet (peace be upon him and his holy progeny) would bend slightly in his walk. One day, he turned and saw him moving in a jerky manner, and said: "Move like this," so he continued to move in that manner from that day on. Abdul Rahman ibn Hassan ibn Thabit mentioned him in his satirical poetry about Abdul Rahman ibn al-Hakam, saying:
"Cast out the bones of your accursed father,
If you throw, throw at one who twitches and is mad.
He goes to bed with an empty belly from righteous deeds,
And spends his days full from the works of the wicked."
The meaning of Abdul Rahman's words, "the accursed father," is that he narrated from Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) through various channels mentioned by Ibn Abi Khaithumah, that she said to Marwan ibn al-Hakam when he spoke to her brother Abdul Rahman ibn Abi Bakr, as he refused to pledge allegiance to Yazid ibn Muawiyah for the position of caliph, what he said, and the story is well-known:
"As for you, Marwan, I bear witness that the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his holy progeny) cursed your father while you were in his loins." Many hadiths have been narrated regarding his curse and expulsion, but it is certain that the Prophet (peace be upon him and his holy progeny), despite his forbearance and his ignoring what he disliked, did not act in this way except for a great matter. He remained in exile during the life of the Prophet (peace be upon him and his holy progeny), and when Abu Bakr assumed the caliphate, he was asked about al-Hakam to return him to Medina. He said: "I would not undo a knot that the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his holy progeny) tied." Similarly, Umar
but when Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) assumed the caliphate, he returned him, and said: "I had interceded for him to the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his holy progeny), and he promised me to return him." He died during the caliphate of Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him). The three (al-Bukhari, Muslim, and Ibn Majah) narrated this.