Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah

Hazrat Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I submitted, O Messenger of Allah! If you deem it appropriate, appoint me as the guardian of our share from the khums of the Book of Allah, so that I may distribute it during your lifetime, so that after you, no one may dispute with me. He said that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did so and appointed me as its guardian. I distributed it during the lifetime of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). Then Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddiq appointed me as the guardian, so I distributed it during the lifetime of Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddiq (may Allah be pleased with him). Then Hazrat Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) appointed me as the guardian, so I distributed it during the lifetime of Hazrat Umar (may Allah be pleased with him). Until the last year of the caliphate of Hazrat Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) arrived, a great amount of wealth came to him, he separated our right and sent it to me and said: This is your right, take it and distribute it wherever you wish. I submitted, O Commander of the Faithful (may Allah be pleased with him), we are in no need of it as the Muslims are in greater need of it. Thus, that year I returned it to him. After Hazrat Umar (may Allah be pleased with him), no one called us towards it until I am standing at this place. After leaving Hazrat Umar (may Allah be pleased with him), I met Hazrat Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him), he said: O Ali (may Allah be pleased with him), this morning you have deprived us of a thing (a right), now it will not be given to us until the Day of Judgment. And Hazrat Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) was a man of sound opinion.