Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 2-2276b
"عَنْ مُحمَّدٍ وَطَلْحَةَ وَسَهْلٍ قَالُوا: كَتَبَ عُمَرُ إِلَى أَبِى عُبَيْدَةَ: إِذَا أَنْتَ فَرَغْتَ مِنْ دِمَشْق -إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّه- فَاصْرفْ أَهْلَ العِرَاقِ إِلَى العِرَاق، فَإِنَّهُ قَدْ أُلْقِىَ فِى رُوعِى أنَّكُمْ سَتَفتَحُونَهَا، ثُمَّ (تُدْركُونَ) إِخْوَانَكُمْ فَتَنصُرُونَهُمْ عَلَى عَدُوِّهمْ، وَقامَ عُمَرُ بالمَدِينَةِ لِمرُورِ النَّاسِ بِهِ، وَذَلِكَ أَنَّهُم ضَرَبُوا إِلَيْهِ منْ بُلْدَانِهمْ، فَجَعَل إِذَا سَرَّحَ قَوْمًا إِلَى الشَّامِ قَالَ: لَيْتَ شِعْرِى عَنِ الأَبْدَالِ هَلْ مَرَّتْ بِهِمُ الرِّكَابُ أَمْ لَا؟ وإِذَا سَرَّحَ قَوْمًا إِلَى الْعِرَاقِ قَالَ: يَا لَيْتَ شِعْرى كَمْ فِى هَذَا (الْجُنْدِ) مِنَ الأَبْدَالِ".
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"Narrated from Muhammad, Talhah and Sahl, who said: 'Umar wrote to Abu 'Ubaydah: 'When you finish with Damascus, if Allah wills, then turn the people of Iraq toward Iraq, for it has been placed in my heart that you will conquer it, then you will reach your brothers and help them against their enemy.' 'Umar stayed in Madinah for the passing of the people through it, for they had come to him from their lands. Whenever he sent a group to al-Sham, he would say: 'I wish I knew about the Abdal, whether caravans have passed by them or not?' And whenever he sent a group to Iraq, he would say: 'I wish I knew how many of the Abdal are in this army.'"
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[كر] ابن عساكر في تاريخه
machine translation[Kar] Ibn ʿAsākir, in his Tārīkh.
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