Bukhari 3680 — Umar's palace in Paradise and his jealousy

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In the Book of the Ansar: Abu Hurayra (may God be pleased with him)'s report of the Prophet ﷺ's dream of Umar's palace in Paradise, and of his reluctance to look at it because of Umar's well-known jealousy. It is among the best-known virtues of Umar in the Sahih. ¹

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Source: Sahih al-Bukhari. Mentions Umar ibn al-Khattab and Abu Hurayra.

Umar's Trust in the Fay'

Umar wrote Hudhayfa to pay the people their rizq; 'done — and much remains' came the answer, and his: 'it is theirs — the fay' God gave them — not Umar's nor Al Umar's — divide it among them'. Abu Hurayra brought five hundred thousand from Bahrayn — 'much money has come: shall we count it or weigh it?' — and a man said 'I have seen these Ajam keep a diwan they pay the people by'; so Umar wrote the diwan: first Muhajirun five thousand, Ansar four thousand, the Prophet's wives twelve thousand. 'It is their right — had it been Khattab-money I'd not have given it, but I know there is surplus: let each stipend buy sheep for his sawad, then rams, till his children hold a substance' — and 'I counsel whom God charges: the Prophet said who dies cheating his flock will not smell paradise'. Every newborn, boy or girl, was registered for a hundred and two jaribs a month.

Bukhari 3680 — Umar's palace in Paradise and his jealousy

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Umar's Trust in the Fay'