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Words of Farah from Abu Ja’far, ‘Alayhi al-Salam

alkafi-14969Vol. 8, p. 189

ذَاكَرْتُهُ شَيْئاً مِنْ أَمْرِهِمَا فَقَالَ ضَرَبُوكُمْ عَلَى دَمِ عُثْمَانَ ثَمَانِينَ سَنَةً[2] وَ هُمْ يَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّهُ كَانَ ظَالِماً فَكَيْفَ يَا فَرْوَةُ إِذَا ذَكَرْتُمْ صَنَمَيْهِمْ.

Farwat narrated to me from Abu Ja’far (asws). He said: ‘Remind me of something from the affairs of those two (Abu Bakr and Umar)’. So he (asws) said: ‘They have hit you upon the blood of Usman for eighty years, and they very well know that he was an unjust one. O Farwat, so how would it be if I (asws) mention to you th