Umar's Stipend Register

Al-Baladhuri relates in "Futuh al-Buldan" that Umar ibn al-Khattab drew up the register in 20 AH and imposed stipends by rank. ¹

He began with the Banu Hashim, then the nearest to the Messenger of God, nearer and nearer; when they were equal in kinship he gave precedence to those of earlier standing. Among the Ansar he began with the clan of Sa'd ibn Mu'adh. ¹

Abu Bakr had made the division equal among people. The book quotes Umar's words: "I will not make him who fought the Messenger of God like him who fought with him." ¹

• For each man of Badr, five thousand dirhams a year, with his ally and his client receiving the same.
• Four thousand for those whose Islam was like the Islam of the people of Badr, and for the emigrants to Abyssinia who witnessed Uhud.
• Two thousand for the sons of the Badr men; al-Hasan and al-Husayn were added to their father's share because of their kinship to the Prophet.
• Twelve thousand for the wives of the Prophet, and Juwayriyya and Safiyya were added to them.
• For al-Abbas, five thousand, or it is said seven thousand.

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He imposed four thousand on Usama ibn Zayd and three thousand on Abd Allah ibn Umar. His son asked him, and he answered, according to the book: "Because he was dearer to the Messenger of God than you, and his father was dearer to the Messenger of God than your father." ¹

Afterwards stipends were imposed by their positions, their reading of the Qur'an and their striving. For a child born alive, a hundred dirhams, increased to two hundred when he grew up; for a foundling, a hundred and a monthly ration. ¹

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