Narrator:Murra ibn Ka‘b
وَعَن مرّة بن كَعْب قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَذكر الْفِتَن فقر بهَا فَمَرَّ رَجُلٌ مُقَنَّعٌ فِي ثَوْبٍ فَقَالَ: «هَذَا يَوْمئِذٍ على هدى» فَقُمْتُ إِلَيْهِ فَإِذَا هُوَ عُثْمَانُ بْنُ عَفَّانَ. قَالَ: فَأَقْبَلْتُ عَلَيْهِ بِوَجْهِهِ. فَقُلْتُ: هَذَا؟ قَالَ: «نَعَمْ» . رَوَاهُ التِّرْمِذِيُّ وَابْنُ مَاجَهْ وَقَالَ التِّرْمِذِيُّ: هَذَا حَدِيث حسن صَحِيح
Murra b. Ka'b said:
I heard God's messenger when he mentioned the civil wars and their nearness; and when a man who was veiled by a garment passed by, he said, "On that day this man will be rightly guided." I got up and went to him and found he was `Uthman b. `Affan, then making him face the Prophet I asked if this was the man, and he replied, "Yes." Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah transmitted it, Tirmidhi saying this is a hasan sahih tradition.
Reported by At-Tirmidhi (No. 3704). Cited in Mishkat al-Masabih (No. 6076).