Ibn Umar reported that two men came to him during the strife stirred up by Ibn Zubayr and said, "The people have gone to ruin, and you are the son of Umar and a companion of the Prophet ﷺ. What holds you back from going out to fight?"He replied, "What holds me back is that Allah has forbidden me the blood of my brother."They said, "Did Allah not say, 'And fight them until there is no more strife'? [Baqarah 2:193]"Ibn Umar answered, "We fought until there was no strife and religion belonged to Allah. You want to fight until there is strife and religion belongs to someone other than Allah."
عن ابن عمر، قال: أتاه رجلان في فتنة ابن الزبير فقالا: إن الناس ضيعوا وأنت ابن عمر وصاحب النبي ﷺ، فما يمنعك أن تخرج؟ قال: يمنعني أن الله حرم دم أخي، قالا: ألم يقل الله: {وقتلوهم حتى لا تكون فتنة} قال: قاتلنا حتى لم تكن فتنة وكان الدين الله، وأنتم تريدون أن تقاتلوا حتى تكون فتنة ويكون الدين لغير الله.
Bukhari narrated it in the Tafsir (4513) from Muhammad bin Bashshar, who said, Abdul-Wahhab told us, Ubaydullah told us, from Nafi, from Ibn Umar, and he mentioned it.Bukhari said (4514), Uthman bin Salih added, from Wahb, who said, so-and-so and Haywa bin Shurayh informed me, from Bakr bin Amr Al-Maafiri, that Bukayr bin Abdullah told him, from Nafi, that a man came to Ibn Umar and said to him, "O Abu Abdul-Rahman, what leads you to perform hajj one year and umrah another year, while abandoning jihad in the path of Allah, when you know how much Allah has encouraged it?"He said, "O son of my brother, Islam was built on five pillars, belief in Allah and His Messenger, the five daily prayers, fasting Ramadan, paying zakat, and pilgrimage to the House."The man said, "O Abu Abdul-Rahman, don't you hear what Allah mentioned in His Book, "If two parties among the believers fight, then make peace between them. But if one of them transgresses against the other, then fight the one that transgresses until it returns to the command of Allah" [Hujurat 49:9], "and fight them until there is no more fitnah"?"Ibn Umar said, "We did that in the time of the Prophet ﷺ, when Islam was few and a man could be persecuted for his religion, either killed or tortured, until Islam grew widespread and there was no more fitnah."The man said, "So what is your view on Ali and Uthman?"He said, "As for Uthman, Allah forgave him, but you disliked to forgive him. As for Ali, he is the cousin of the Messenger of Allah and his son-in-law." And he pointed with his hand and said, "This is his house, as you can see." The end.