~Around the time of the return from the first Abyssinian emigration · 7 BH
On returning to Makkah, Uthman ibn Maz'un RA obtained protection from al-Walid ibn al-Mughira, a powerful Qurashi nobleman. Seeing his fellow Muslims still being persecuted while he himself was safe, his conscience troubled him and he asked al-Walid to withdraw the protection. Walking back unprotected, he passed the famous poet Labid ibn Rabi'ah reciting verses in a gathering of the Quraysh, and interrupted him over a line of poetry, for which someone in the crowd struck him and blackened his eye.
Illustrates that voluntarily giving up a permissible worldly safety out of solidarity with persecuted brothers, though not obligatory, was Uthman ibn Maz'un RA's own choice of conscience.
Other events recorded in 7 BH. Their order within the year is not established; use the storyline above for the sequence.
I have given my protection to Uthman ibn Maz'un.
Please take your protection back. I cannot bear to see my fellow brothers suffer while I have this freedom.
Uthman has asked his protection be returned.
How come they are suffering and I am in safety?
Said after seeing his fellow Muslims being persecuted while he himself remained safe under al-Walid ibn al-Mughira's protection.
Verily, everything other than Allah is useless.
Recited at a poetry gathering of the Quraysh, as Uthman ibn Maz'un RA walked back unprotected.
صدقت
Sadaqta, you have spoken the truth.
Every blessing, without any doubt, will disappear.
كذبت
Kadhabta, you have just lied, Jannah will never disappear, the pleasures of Jannah will never come to an end.
For interrupting Labid's recitation, someone in the crowd struck Uthman ibn Maz'un RA, blackening his eye.
Since when have you treated your guests in this manner?
Labid, unaware of the tension between the pagans and the Muslims, took the interruption as a breach of hospitality; someone in the crowd struck Uthman ibn Maz'un RA, blackening his eye.
My nephew, why have you taken back the protection? Come back and I will give the protection back to you.
On hearing that Uthman ibn Maz'un RA had been struck.
No, this is not a problem at all. Verily, my other eye is now in need of the blessings that my left eye has gotten.