Hadith No: 2
Ibn Asakir - Tarikh Damishq (History of Damascus) - Letter S - 2496: Sa'id ibn al-Aas ibn Abi Uhayha ...
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- Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Ghanim ibn Ahmad narrated to us, saying: Abd al-Rahman ibn Mundh narrated to me, from my father, who said: Sa'id ibn al-Aas ibn Sa'id ibn al-Aas ibn Umayyah ibn Abd Shams was narrated to by his son and Ammar, the freedman of al-Harith ibn Nufayl. This Sa'id is the younger, and his grandfather, Sa'id ibn al-Aas ibn Abi Uhayha, is the elder. He is mentioned to have taken part in the conquest of Khaybar. I read to Abu Ghalib ibn al-Banna from Abu Muhammad al-Jahiri, who said: Abu Umar ibn Hayyuwiya narrated to me, from al-Husayn ibn al-Fahm, who said: Muhammad ibn Sa'd narrated to us, saying: In the first generation of the people of Medina was Sa'id ibn al-Aas ibn Sa'id ibn Uhayha ibn al-Aas ibn Umayyah ibn Abd Shams ibn Abd Manaf ibn Qusai. His mother was Umm Kulthum, the daughter of Amr ibn Abdullah ibn Abi Qais ibn Abd Wad ibn Nasr ibn Malik ibn Hasal ibn Amir ibn Lu'ay. His maternal grandmother was Umm Habib, the daughter of al-Aas ibn Umayyah ibn Abd Shams. They said: The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his holy progeny) passed away while Sa'id ibn al-Aas was nine years old or so, because his father, al-Aas ibn Sa'id ibn al-Aas ibn Umayyah, was killed on the Day of Badr as a non-believer. Umar ibn al-Khattab said to Sa'id ibn al-Aas: "What is it, I see you turning away, as if you think I killed your father? I did not kill him, but Ali ibn Abi Talib killed him. If I had killed him, I would not have apologized for killing a disbeliever. However, I killed my uncle with my own hands, al-Aas ibn Hisham ibn al-Mughira ibn Abdullah ibn Umar ibn al-Mukhzumi." Sa'id ibn al-Aas replied: "O Commander of the Faithful, if you had killed him, you would have been in the right, and he would have been in the wrong." Umar found this satisfactory from him. They said: Sa'id ibn al-Aas remained in the camp of Uthman ibn Affan due to family ties.
When Uthman deposed al-Walid ibn Uqbah ibn Abi Mu'ayt from the governorship of Kufa, he called Sa'id ibn al-Aas and appointed him as governor there. When he arrived in Kufa, he came as a young man living in comfort, without any prior experience. He said: "I will not ascend the pulpit until it is cleansed," so he ordered it to be washed and then ascended the pulpit. He addressed the people of Kufa and spoke with words that left them somewhat short and attributed them to division and disagreement, saying: "This crowd is merely a garden for the youth of Quraysh." They complained about him to Uthman, who said: "Whenever one of you sees something unkind from an Amir, he wants us to depose him." When Sa'id ibn al-Aas arrived in Medina as an envoy to Uthman, he sent to the leaders of the Emigrants and the Ansar with gifts and clothing, and he sent to Ali ibn Abi Talib as well. Ali accepted what was sent to him and said: "The Banu Umayya are indeed outpacing me in the inheritance of Muhammad, and by God, if I remain among them, I will shake them off from it as a butcher shakes dust from meat." Then Sa'id ibn al-Aas returned to Kufa and inflicted severe harm on its people, ruling over them for five years, except for a few months.