Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 35127 — What they said on the governor's

Qays bin Abi Hazim (may Allah have mercy on him) said that Sayyiduna Utbah bin Farqad al-Sulami (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I brought large baskets full of a sweet dish (khabis) to Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him). I had never seen anything better. He asked: "What is this?" I said: "This is food I have brought for you, because you are a man who spends the first part of the day seeing to the people's needs, and when you return you can have some of it." He said: "Uncover a basket." The narrator says: I uncovered it. He said: "I adjure you, when you return, to provide every man among the Muslims with a basket of it." I said: "By the One who keeps you upright, O Commander of the Faithful! Even if I were to spend all the wealth of Banu Qays, it would not reach that amount." He said: "Then I have no need of it." Then he called for a bowl containing tharid of coarse bread and tough meat. He ate it with me with great relish. I reached for a white piece, thinking it was part of the hump, and when I chewed it, it turned out to be sinew. I took a piece of meat and chewed it, but it would not go down my throat. When he looked away from me for a moment, I placed the piece between the bowl and the dining mat. Then he said: "O Utbah, we slaughter a camel every day. Its fat and its best parts are for those Muslims who have come from distant regions, and its neck is for Umar!"