Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 2-1388b
"عن زيدِ بن وهبٍ قال: خرج عمرُ ويداه في أذنيه وهو يقولُ: يا لَبَّيْكاه يا لَبَّيْكاه، قال الناس: مالهُ؟ قال: جاءه بَرِيدٌ من بعضِ أمرائه: أن نهرًا حالَ بينهم وبين العبورِ ولم يجدوا سُفُنًا، فقال أميرُهم: اطلبوا لنا رَجُلًا يعلمُ غوْر الماء، فأُتِى بشيخٍ فقال: إنى أخاف البردَ -وذاكَ في البَردِ- فأكرهه فأَدْخَله فلم يلْبِثْه البرد فجعل ينادى: واعُمَراه فغرِق! ! فكتب إليه فأقبل، فمكث أيامًا معرضًا عنه، وكان إذا وجدَ على أحدٍ منهم فعلَ به ذلك، ثم قال: ما فعل الرجل الذى قَتَلْتَهُ؟ قال: يا أميرَ المؤمنين: ما تعمدت قتله، لم نجد شيئًا نَعْبرُ فيه، وأردنا أن نعلمَ غور (الماء) ففتحنا كذا وكذا، فقال عمر له: رجل مسلم أحبُّ إلىَّ من كل شئ جئتَ به، لولا أن يكون سنة لضربتُ عنقَك، أعط أهلهَ دِيتَه، واخرُج فلا أراك".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Zyd b. Whb
- Khrj
Machine translation, not reviewed
"Zayd ibn Wahb said: 'Umar went out with his hands in his ears, saying: 'Labbaykah, labbaykah!' People said: 'What is wrong with him?' He said: A messenger had come from one of his governors: a river had come between them and crossing, and they could not find boats. Their commander said: 'Look for us a man who knows the depth of the water.' So an old man was brought, and he said: 'I fear the cold,' — and it was in the cold — 'so force me, and he will put me in, and the cold will not keep me long.' So they forced him in, and the cold did not leave him long, and he began calling out: 'O 'Umar!' and drowned! So 'Umar wrote to him, and he came. He stayed for days, turning away from him; and whenever he was angry with one of them, he did this to him. Then he said: 'What happened to the man you killed?' He said: 'O Commander of the Believers, I did not intend to kill him. We did not find anything to cross with, and we wanted to know the depth of the water, so we opened such and such.' 'Umar said to him: 'A Muslim man is more beloved to me than everything you have brought. Were it not that it would become a sunnah, I would strike your neck. Give his family his blood money, and leave; I do not want to see you.'"
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Notes
[ق] البيهقى في السنن
machine translation[Q] Al-Bayhaqī in al-Sunan
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