HIS EARLY DAYS
Born six years after the year of the elephant {‘ Aam Al- Feel), ‘Uthmaan Ibn ‘ Affaan, may Allah be pleased with him, belonged to a well-reputed and honorable family of Makkah in the period of Jahiliyyah, Banu Umayyah, a braneh of the tribe of Quraysh. His ancestral pedigree joins with that of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him in the fifth generation. His father’s name is ‘ Uthmaan Ibn ‘ Affaan Ibn Abi AI-‘Aas Ibn Umtnayyah Ibn ‘Abd Shams Ibn ‘ Abd Manaaf. His mother’s name is Ai wa Bint Kurayz. ‘ Uthmaan was also known by other names, namely Abu ‘Abdullaah and Abu Lay lab.
‘ Uthmaan was one of the few persons in Makkah who learned how to read and write at an early age, and as a young man became a successful merchant and businessman. Of all his contemporaries, he was a venerable man of overrated virtue and outstanding attributes. Though he was extremely wealthy and of high rank, he was always noted for his modesty and humbleness. Even before landing on the safe shore of Islam, he was a soft natured and kind hearted man; he used to help the needy and the poor-stricken, and did not hesitate to spend any amount of money on seeing a man in trouble in order to remove his misery. For his lofty morals and decent way of expression, the Makkans had great respect for him. It is also said that he never wronged anyone, nor did anything obscene, or prostrated himself before idols in Jahiliyyah.
His Personal Appearance
It is said that ‘Uthmaan, may Allah be pleased with him, was a little above average height, extremely handsome, a fair skinned man with a touch of redness in his face, brunet, large-jointed, broad-shouldered, with a thick beard which he dyed yellow, and long hair which reached his shoulders, and gold- braced teeth.
‘ Abdur-Rahmaan Ibn Hazin Al-Muzanyy is reported to have said: “I saw ‘ Uthmaan Ibn ‘ Affaan, and I never saw a man or a woman handsomer of face than him.” (Reported by Ibn ‘ Asaakir.)
(Source: Biographies of the rightly guided Caliphs )
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