Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 36091 — Reports on Tustar

Abu Zur'ah bin Amr bin Jarir said: Among the companions of Sayyiduna Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) there was a very brave and bold man. When the Muslims obtained spoils, Sayyiduna Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) did not give him his full share. He refused to accept a lesser share. Sayyiduna Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) had him given twenty lashes and shaved his head. He gathered up his hair and came into the presence of Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him). Sayyiduna Jarir (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I was the nearest of the people to him. He struck his hair against Sayyiduna Umar's chest and said: "By Allah, if it were not for it!" Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "He speaks the truth: if it were not for Hell." Then Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) asked him the reason, and he told the whole matter and said: "Sayyiduna Abu Musa thinks that he will not be made to give retaliation for this." Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "That all the people should have the firmness of this man is dearer to me than everything that has come to me." Then Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) wrote a letter to Sayyiduna Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) in which, after the greeting, he said: "So-and-so son of so-and-so has informed me of this, and I adjure you: if you did this wrong to him in front of people, then sit before people and let him take retaliation from you, and if you did it in private, then let him take retaliation from you in private." The people asked that man: "Pardon him." He said: "No, by Allah, I will not leave it for anyone." When the letter was given to Sayyiduna Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him), he sat down for the retaliation. That man raised his head towards the sky and said: "I have pardoned him."