Lady Ayisha, may Allah be pleased with her, reported that Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) was lying in the bed in my apartment with his thigh uncovered and Abu Bakr sought permission to enter. It was given to him and he conversed in the same very state (the Prophet’s thigh or shank uncovered). Then `Umar sought permission for entering and it was given to him and he conversed in that very state. Then `Uthman sought permission to enter; Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) sat down and he set right his clothes. Muhammad (one of the narrators) said: I do not say that it happened on the same day. He (`Uthman) then entered and conversed and as he went out, `Aisha said: Abu Bakr entered and you did not stir and did not observe much care (in arranging your clothes), then `Umar entered and you did not stir and did not arrange your clothes, then `Uthman entered and you got up and set your clothes right, so he (ﷺ) said: Should I not show modesty to one whom even the Angels show modesty. He Uthman ibn Affan, the one who the Angels show modesty before him. He is the third Rashid caliph (ruler). He is one of the 10th companions who were promised Jannah. Sayyiduna Uthman ibn Affan was called Zulnoorain “the one who is blessed with two lights”. He was called thus because he married two of the daughters of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. He married Ruqayyah, and when she died, he married her sister Umm Kulthum.
Sayyiduna Uthman ibn Affan. His full name is Uthman ibn Affan bin Al-Aas bin Umayyah bin Abdul Shams bin Abd Manaf. He was born in Makkah on the sixth year of Amul-Fil (the year of the Elephant). He was about five years younger than the Prophet (S.A.W.). He became Muslim early and participated in the two Migrations: first to Abyssinia (Ethiopia) and the second to Madinah. Before Islam, he was among the best of people, he was extremely modest and a man of honor. He could read and write. He was one of the earliest Muslims of whom Ibn Ishaq said: The first person to become Muslim after Abu Bakr, and syyiduna ‘Ali was Sayyiduna Uthman. He was the fourth man to embrace Islam. His conversion to Islam is an interested story; he had like a daydream like vision while he was on a journey home from Syria that he heard a voice calling out, “O sleepers arise because Ahmad has emerged in Mecca”. When he returned back, he heard about this new religion, Islam. Sayyiduna Abu Bakr was a close friend to Sayyiduna Uthman, Sayyiduna Uthman spoke to him about this new religion. Syyiduna Uthman told the story about his conversion ”Abu Bakr said to me ‘What is wrong with you Uthman? You are an intelligent man where right and wrong could not be hidden from him. What is (the point) of these idols that our nation serves? That is the Messenger of Allah, Muhammad ibn Abdullah, who Allah has sent him to his creatures with his Message. Do you want to go to him?’ We then met the Messenger (saw) and he said: ‘O Uthman, give Allah what he deserves (his right), indeed I am the Messenger of Allah sent to you and to his creation.’ By Allah, I could not stop myself from accepting Islam, after I heard the Messenger of Allah. So I testified that there is no god but Allah, alone with no partners.”
The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, had married Ruqayyah to Utbah ibn Abi Lahab, and he had married Umm Kulthum to Utaybah ibn Abi Lahab. When Surah Al-Masad was revealed, ”May the hands of Abu Lahab be round, at round is he. His wealth will not avail him or that which he gained. He will [enter to] burn in a Fire of [blazing] flame. And his wife [as well] – the carrier of firewood. Around her neck is a rope of [twisted] fiber.” (تَبَّتۡ يَدَآ أَبِي لَهَبٖ وَتَبَّ (1) مَآ أَغۡنَىٰ عَنۡهُ مَالُهُۥ وَمَا كَسَبَ (2) سَيَصۡلَىٰ نَارٗا ذَاتَ لَهَبٖ (3) وَٱمۡرَأَتُهُۥ حَمَّالَةَ ٱلۡحَطَبِ (4) فِي جِيدِهَا حَبۡلٞ مِّن مَّسَدِۭ (5)). Abu Lahab and their mother Umm Jamil bint Harb ibn Umayyah said to them, “Leave the two daughters of Muhammad.” So he left them before they had intercourse with them. When Uthman heard the news of Ruqayyah’s divorce, he proposed to Lady Ruqayyah, the daughter of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and he married her to him, and the mother of the believers, Khadijah bint Khuwaylid, accompanied her, and Basim was stunned when she was accompanied, saying: “The two most beautiful people have ever seen, Ruqayyah and her husband Uthman.” And on the authority of Abd al-Rahman ibn Uthman al-Qurashi: “The Messenger of God entered upon his daughter while she was washing Uthman’s head, and he said: ‘O my judge, go to Abu Abdullah, for he is the most similar of my companions to me in character.”
