Musnad Ahmad 425

Translation

✧ Umar b. al-Khattab sent for me, and while I was thus, his freedman Yarfa came to him and said: This is Uthman, Abd al-Rahman, Sa‘d, and al-Zubayr b. al-Awwam — he said: I do not know whether he mentioned Talha or not — asking permission to enter upon you? He said: Give them permission. Then he waited a while, then came and said: This is al-Abbas and Ali asking permission to enter upon you? He said: Give them permission. When al-Abbas entered, he said: O Commander of the Faithful, judge between me and this one — and they were then disputing over what Allah had granted as booty to His Messenger from the wealth of Banu al-Nadir. So the people said: Judge between them, O Commander of the Faithful, and relieve each one of his companion, for their dispute has gone on long. So Umar said: I adjure you by Allah, by whose permission the heavens and the earth stand, do you know that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “We are not inherited from; what we leave is charity”? They said: He said that. And he said the like to the two of them, and they said: Yes. He said: Then I shall inform you about this fay’; Allah, Mighty and Majestic, singled out His Prophet ﷺ from it with something He did not give to anyone else. He said: “And what Allah restored to His Messenger from them — you did not spur for it any horses or camels” — and it belonged to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ exclusively. By Allah, he did not take it for himself without you, nor did he prefer himself over you. He divided it among you and spread it among you until this wealth remained from it. He would spend on his family from it for a year, then make what remained of it a portion of the wealth of Allah. When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was taken, Abu Bakr said: I am the successor of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ after him; I will act in it as the Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to act in it.

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