مصنف ابن ابي شيبه
Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah
كتاب البعوث والسراياBook of Military Campaigns and Detachments
في توجيه عمر إلى الشامDispatching the Army to Syria During the Caliphate of Umar
Hadith 36110
٣٦١١٠ - حدثنا أبو خالد الأحمر عن يحيى بن سعيد عن القاسم عن أسلم مولى عمر قال: لما قدمنا مع عمر الشام أناخ بعيره وذهب لحاجته، فألقيت فروتي بين شعبتي الرحل، فلما جاء ركب على الفروة، فلقينا أهل الشام يتلقون عمر ⦗٧٥⦘ فجعلوا ينظرون، فجعلت أشير إليهم، قال: يقول: تطمح أعينهم إلى مراكب من لا خلاق له -يريد مراكب العجم (١).
Hazrat Aslam, the servant of Hazrat Umar, narrates that when we came to Syria with Hazrat Umar, he made his camel sit down and went away to relieve himself. I spread a sheepskin in the saddle. When he returned, he mounted the sheepskin. Then we met the people of Syria; they would ask me about Hazrat Umar, so I would point towards him. Seeing their condition, Hazrat Umar used to say that their eyes are more inclined towards those mounts which are devoid of simplicity, meaning towards the mounts of the non-Arabs.
