Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 2-2185b

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“Zayd ibn Aslam and Ya‘qub ibn Zayd both said: ‘Umar ibn al-Khattab went out on Friday to the prayer, climbed the minbar, then cried out: ‘O Sariyah ibn Zanim, the mountain! Whoever makes the wolf a shepherd of the flock has wronged.’ Then he delivered the khutbah until he finished. The letter of Sariyah ibn Zanim came to ‘Umar ibn al-Khattab: Allah granted us victory on Friday at such-and-such an hour, the hour in which ‘Umar goes out and speaks on the minbar. Sariyah said: I heard a voice: ‘O Sariyah ibn Zanim, the mountain, whoever makes the wolf a shepherd of the flock has wronged,’ so we climbed the mountain with our companions, and before that we had been in the bottom of a valley while we were besieging the enemy, and Allah granted us victory. It was said to ‘Umar ibn al-Khattab: What was that speech? He said: By Allah, I gave it no thought; it was something that came upon my tongue.”

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