Umar's Special Stipends and Equity

خواص فرائض عمر وعدله في العطاء

Yazid ibn Abi Habib: Umar set Amr ibn al-As (may God be pleased with him) at two hundred as amir, Umayr ibn Wahb al-Jumahi at two hundred for his patience in want, Busr ibn Abi Artat at two hundred as a man of conquest — 'many a conquest God wrought by his hand' — and wrote Amr to set the Tree-pledgers at two hundred, take that himself as amir, and put Kharija ibn Hudhafa in sharaf al-ata' for his courage. A governor who paid Arabs and left mawali got his letter: 'it suffices a man for evil to scorn his Muslim brother'; Ammar ibn Yasir (may God be pleased with him)'s stipend was six thousand, Salman's four, Hurmuzan's two. When the diwan was laid down Abu Sufyan ibn Harb said 'a diwan like Banu al-Asfar's — pay them and they will lean on it and leave trade'; Umar: 'it must be — the Muslims have grown'. Stipends went to the dahqans too — Nahr al-Malik's, Ibn al-Nukhayrajan, Khalid and Jamil sons of Busubuhri, Sistam ibn Tarisi of Babil and Khutarniya, al-Rufayl of al-Al, and Ju'ayfina al-Abadi at a thousand each — and his letter to the jund-commanders attached every freed Hamra' convert to his mawali 'theirs what is theirs, on them what is on them', or formed them into a tribe equal in stipend. Abu Ubayda refused the badia till the hadara were provided, Umar II wrote the same to Yazid ibn Husayn, and Umar gave Mecca's people no stipend and sent them on no expedition.