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The situation worsened on Thursday, 16 June. As Uthman stood in his balcony, Niyar ibn Iyad al-Aslami, a companion of Muhammad, lectured him from outside and demanded his abdication. In response, one of Marwan's servants threw a stone killing Niyar. Outraged by Uthman's refusal to hand over the attacker, the rebels started preparations to attack.{{efn|1=According to one version, the trigger of the attack was the news that Uthman's governors in Iraq, Syria, and Egypt had sent him reinforcements. The rebels then hastened to finish him before the arrival of the reinforcements.{{sfn|Humphreys|1990|pp=220–221}}}} The next day, Friday 17 June, they attacked his house setting the doors on fire. Uthman ordered his defenders to lay down their arms and not fight as he did not want bloodshed. Nevertheless, some of them, including Marwan and Sa'id ibn al-As, refused and counter-attacked the rebels repelling them from one of the doors. A few of the defenders were killed in the skirmishes whereas Marwan and Sa'id were wounded. Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr and Hasan ibn Ali are also reported to have been wounded, although other reports indicate that the two had laid down their arms on Uthman's earlier orders.{{sfn|Madelung|1997|pp=135–138}}
While Uthman and his wife Naila were alone in their room around the time of midday prayers, reading the [[Quran|Qur'an]], some of the rebels climbed the surrounding homes and leaped into Uthman's. According to the [[Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad ibn Amr ibn Hazm|family tradition of Amr ibn Hazm]], after that, Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr seized Uthman's beard and shook it. Uthman implored him to let it go, stressing that his father, Abu Bakr, would never have done anything like that. Muhammad retorted that Abu Bakr would have surely condemned Uthman if he had seen the deeds Uthman had committed. Then, as Uthman sought God's protection from Muhammad, Muhammad pierced Uthman’s head with a blade
Kinana ibn Bishr al-Tujibi then joined in by piercing under Uthman’s ear from behind with arrows and sword blows. According to a variant account, Kinana hit him with a metal rod and he fell on the ground. Sudan ibn Humran then killed him. In both accounts, Amr ibn Hamiq then sat on his chest and pierced his body a number of times. The house was then looted.{{sfn|Madelung|1997|pp=138–139}} Uthman's body was buried at night in the Jewish cemetery named {{Transliteration|ar|Hashsh Kawkab}} as the rebels (or Ansar according to Wellhausen) did not allow him be buried in the Muslim cemetery.{{sfn|Madelung|1997|p=139}}{{sfn|Wellhausen|1927|p=50}}
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