Message #9280

[Heba E. Husseyn]

Thanks brother pt.  Good re-cap of this event.  It was useful for me too.

I don't know how far this report is correct, but it's said that during the siege of Osman, Aisha was asked to stay in Medina, yet she left the city.  It's also reported that she was not happy with Osman as she felt he was neglecting Islamic traditions and encouraged people to eliminate him which may have resulted in Osman's assasination in 655 AD.  But personally I don't trust this information because it contradicts Aisha's purpose of the Battle of the Camel which was to avenge the death of Osman.  If she disliked him so much, why would she bother to avenge his death to the extent of fighting a battle over it .. unless she wanted an excuse to attack Ali based on personal dislike as well?  But this story seems far-fetched.  I don't think Aisha had any problems with Osman's rule and she was obviously rattled by the news of his murder.  Thus, when she felt that Ali was not doing enough to find his murderers, she decided to fight a battle over it .. which was of course a wrong decision on her part. 

You are right brother.  This info is very contradictory, makes no sense whatsoever.  If Aisha didn't like Usman bin Affan's rule and instigated his assasination, why on earth would she fight a war to avenge his killing?  To presume that she used it only as an excuse to attack Ali (whom she also didn't like according to rumors) sounds too impractical.  I'm sure she wasn't that irrational.  These conflicting gossips almost always arise from the Hadith literature where different hadith narrators & writers had different ideas of putting up their gossips.  Even on sites like Wikipedia, info writers often get confused and they end up writing both contradictory information.