I was present at the house when Uthman looked down upon them and said, "I ask you by Allah and by Islam, do you not know that when the Messenger of Allah ﷺ arrived in Medina there was no fresh water there except the well of Rumah, and he said, 'Whoever buys the well of Rumah and places his bucket in it alongside the buckets of the Muslims will have something better than it in Paradise,' so I bought it with my own wealth and placed my bucket in it alongside the buckets of the Muslims, yet today you prevent me from drinking from it so that I must drink from the seawater?"They said, "By Allah, yes."He said, "I ask you by Allah and by Islam, do you not know that I equipped the army of hardship from my own wealth?"They said, "By Allah, yes."He said, "I ask you by Allah and by Islam, do you not know that the mosque became too small for its people, so the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, 'Whoever buys the plot belonging to the family of so-and-so and adds it to the mosque will have something better than it in Paradise,' so I bought it with my own wealth and added it to the mosque, yet you prevent me from praying two rak'ahs in it?"They said, "By Allah, yes."He said, "I ask you by Allah and by Islam, do you not know that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was upon Thabir, the Thabir of Mecca, and with him were Abu Bakr and Umar and myself, when the mountain shook, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ struck it with his foot and said, 'Be still, Thabir, for upon you are only a Prophet, a truthful one, and two martyrs'?"They said, "By Allah, yes."He said, "Allah is the Greatest. They have testified for me, by the Lord of the Kaabah," meaning that he was a martyr.
أخبرني زياد بن أيوب قال حدثنا سعيد بن عامر عن يحيى بن أبي الحجاج عن سعيد الجريري
شهدت الدار حين أشرف عليهم عثمان فقال أنشدكم بالله وبالإسلام هل تعلمون أن رسول الله ﷺ قدم المدينة وليس بها ماء يستعذب غير بئر رومة فقال من يشتري بئر رومة فيجعل فيها دلوه مع دلاء المسلمين بخير له منها في الجنة فاشتريتها من صلب مالي فجعلت دلوي فيها مع دلاء المسلمين وأنتم اليوم تمنعوني من الشرب منها حتى أشرب من ماء البحر قالوا اللهم نعم قال فأنشدكم بالله والإسلام هل تعلمون أني جهزت جيش العسرة من مالي قالوا اللهم نعم قال فأنشدكم بالله والإسلام هل تعلمون أن المسجد ضاق بأهله فقال رسول الله ﷺ من يشتري بقعة آل فلان فيزيدها في المسجد بخير له منها في الجنة فاشتريتها من صلب مالي فزدتها في المسجد وأنتم تمنعوني أن أصلي فيه ركعتين قالوا اللهم نعم قال أنشدكم بالله والإسلام هل تعلمون أن رسول الله ﷺ كان على ثبير ثبير مكة ومعه أبو بكر وعمر وأنا فتحرك الجبل فركضه رسول الله ﷺ برجله وقال اسكن ثبير فإنما عليك نبي وصديق وشهيدان قالوا اللهم نعم قال الله أكبر شهدوا لي ورب الكعبة يعني أني شهيد
[Hasan] except for his saying "Thabir" — Tirmidhi related it, in the Book of Virtues, chapter on the virtues of Uthman bin Affan (chapter: on counting Uthman among the martyrs, and his equipping of the army of hardship), no. 3703, from the hadith of Saeed bin Amir, with this wording, and he said, hasan. It is also found in Al-Kubra, no. 6435.* Saeed Jariri experienced confusion in his narrations later in life, but his hadith has many corroborating reports, among them the preceding hadith and the one that follows.