Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 2-1747b
"عن حميد بن هلال أن حفص بن أَبى العاص كان يحضر طعام عمر، وكان لا يأكل، فقال له عمر: ما يمنعك من طعامنا؟ قال: إن طعامك جشب غليظ وإنى راجع إلى طعام لين قد صنع فأصيب منه، قال: أترانى أعجز أن آمر بشاة فيلقى عنها شعرها، وآمر بدقيق فينخل في خرقة وآمر به فيخبز خبزًا رقاقًا، وآمر بصاع من زبيب فيقذف في شعر ثم يصب عليه من الماء فيصبح كأنه دم غزال؟ فقال حفص: إنى لأراك عالمًا بطيبِ العيشِ! فقال عمر: أجل والذى نفسى بيده لولا كراهة أن تنقص حسناتى يوم القيامة لشاركتكم في لين عيشكم".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Ḥmyd b. Hlāl
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"Humayd ibn Hilal narrated that Hafs ibn Abi al-'As used to attend 'Umar's meals, but he would not eat. 'Umar said to him: 'What prevents you from eating our food?' He said: 'Your food is coarse and rough, and I am turning to soft food that has been prepared, so I will partake of it.' He said: 'Do you think I am unable to order a sheep to be brought and have its wool removed, and order flour to be sifted through a cloth, and order it to be baked into thin bread, and order a measure of raisins to be thrown into a container, then water poured over it, so that it becomes like the blood of a gazelle in the morning?' Hafs said: 'I see you are knowledgeable about good living!' 'Umar said: 'Indeed, by Him in whose hand my soul is, if it were not for my dislike that my good deeds be diminished on the Day of Resurrection, I would have shared with you in the softness of your living.'"
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Notes
ابن سعد، وعبد بن حميد
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