Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 2-3504b
"عن سعيد بن المسيب: أن عمر بن الخطاب أمر بأمهات الأولاد أن يقومن في أموال أبنائهن بقيمة عدل ثم يُعتقن، فمكث بذلك صدرا من خلافته، ثم توفى رجل من قريش كان له ابن أم ولد، فكان عمر يعجب بذلك الغلام، فمر ذلك الغلام على عمر في المسجد بعد وفاة أبيه بليال، فقال له عمر: ما فعلت يا بن أخى في أمك؟ قال: قد فعلت يا أمير المؤمنين حين خَيَّرنِى إخوتى في أن يشترقوا أمى أو يخرجونى من ميراثى من أبى فكان ميراثى من أبى أهون على من أن تسترق أمى، فقال عمر: أولست إنما أمرت في ذلك بقيمة عدل؟ ما أرى رأيا أو آمر بشئ إلا قلتم فيه؟ ! ثم قام فجلس على المنبر، فاجتمع إليه الناس حتى إذا رضى جماعتهم فقال: يا أيها الناس! إنى قد كنت أمرت في أمهات الأولاد بأمر قد علمتموه، ثم قد حدث لي رأى غير ذلك، فأيما امرئ كانت عنده أم ولد فملكها بيمينه ما عاش، فإذا مات فهى حرة لا سبيل عليها".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Sʿyd b. al-Msyb n ʿMr b. al-Khṭāb Mr Bʾmhāt al-Wlād n Yqwmn
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"From Sa'id ibn al-Musayyib: that 'Umar ibn al-Khattab ordered the mothers of children to be valued at a fair price in their children's property and then freed. He remained on this for a part of his caliphate. Then a man of Quraysh died who had a son by a umm walad, and 'Umar liked that boy. Some nights after his father's death, the boy passed by 'Umar in the mosque, and 'Umar said to him: What have you done, my nephew, regarding your mother? He said: I have done it, O Commander of the Believers, when my brothers gave me the choice between enslaving my mother or removing me from my share of my father's inheritance. My share of my father's inheritance is easier for me than that my mother be enslaved. 'Umar said: Did I not only order a fair valuation in that matter? I do not see an opinion or order anything without you saying something about it! Then he stood and sat on the pulpit, and the people gathered to him until he was satisfied with their number, and he said: O people! I had ordered a matter concerning the mothers of children which you know. Then an opinion other than that has come to me. Whoever has a umm walad and owns her by his right hand, while he lives, then when he dies she is free, with no claim upon her."
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يعقوب بن سفيان، [ق] البيهقى في السنن [كر] ابن عساكر في تاريخه
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