Umar's Monthly Rations

"Futuh al-Buldan" relates that Umar made monthly rations of food for the people, and the book follows the fate of this system in the later reigns. ¹

Umar ordered a jarib of food ground, baked and eaten with oil; thirty men ate their lunch from it, and then he did the same at supper. He said: "Two jaribs suffice a man each month." So he gave a man, a woman and a slave two jaribs a month. ¹

The book quotes Abu al-Darda''s saying that Umar instituted rightly guided sunnas, among them the debt-payments and the equal shares. Umar said from the pulpit that he imposed on every Muslim soul each month a mudd, a measure of oil and a measure of vinegar, and that this includes the slave. ¹

Uthman and those after him upheld the rules of dependants and made them inheritable. When Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz asked about this, he rejected inheritance. Sulayman ibn Habib warned him that people would follow his ending of inheritance and not of the whole allotment, and he left them. ¹

Umar used to impose a stipend for a child when it was born, and in the report of Ibn Umar it was not imposed until it was weaned. Mu'awiya imposed it for the weaned child. Abd al-Malik cut this off except for whom he wished. ¹

There is disagreement in the reports about when the stipend for a newborn was imposed, and it needs an additional source. The text comes from automated extraction and needs the page numbers.