I said to the people, "If only you had seen me when Umar tied me up because of Islam, both me and his sister, before he had accepted Islam himself. And if a mountain were to crumble down on account of what you have done to Uthman, it would have every right to crumble."
حدثني محمد بن المثنى حدثنا يحيى حدثنا إسماعيل حدثنا قيس قال سمعت
للقوم لو رأيتني موثقي عمر على الإسلام أنا وأخته وما أسلم ولو أن أحدا انقض لما صنعتم بعثمان لكان محقوقا أن ينقض