وَعَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَدِيِّ بْنِ الْخِيَارِ
أَنَّهُ دَخَلَ عَلَى عُثْمَانَ وَهُوَ مَحْصُورٌ فَقَالَ: إِنَّكَ إِمَامُ عَامَّةٍ وَنَزَلَ بِكَ مَا تَرَى وَيُصلي لنا إِمَام فتْنَة وننحرج. فَقَالَ: الصَّلَاة أحسن مَا يعْمل النَّاس فَإِذا أحسن النَّاس فَأحْسن مَعَهم وَإِذا أساؤوا فاجتنب إساءتهم
‘Ubaidallah ibn Adi b. al-Khiyar told how he visited Uthman when he was besieged and said, ‘You are a leader who has been accepted generally, yet what you see has happened to you, and a rebel leader conducts our prayer and we abstain.’ He replied, ‘Prayer is the best thing people do; so when people do good, do good along with them, but when they do evil turn aside from their evil-doing.’’
Mishkat al-Masabih 579, Book 5, Prayer, Hadith 57. 1 min read