Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 2-2852b

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"On the authority of Ibn Niyaq, who said: Umar came, and he was wearing a shirt of kirabis () that was dirty, nearly falling apart from the dirt. I said: 'O Commander of the Believers, shall I not wash this shirt of yours?' He said: 'Yes, if you wish.' So I called for a Coptic shirt () and he put it on. When he felt its softness he said: 'Woe to you, O son of Niyaq, bring me my shirt!' I brought it to him while it had not yet dried. I went to bring it into a room, and he saw a picture in it and refused to enter. Then I brought him honey and he drank it, and he said: 'This does not suffice the people (Is there any drink that suffices the people?) ().' So I brought him a tila' (boiled syrup) that had been reduced to two-thirds. He looked at it and said: 'How much this resembles the tila' of camels!' Then he gave a man some of it, and he drank it. He said: 'Do you feel anything?' He said: 'No.' Then he repeated it, and said: 'Do you feel anything?' He said: 'No.' Then he repeated it a third time, and said: 'Do you feel anything?' (No): '(Stand up and walk.)' So he walked until he returned, and said: 'Do you feel a stirring? Do you feel anything?' He said: 'No,' he said: 'Yes, give this to the people,' and he wrote about it to Sa'd in Kufah."

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