Abu Bakr ibn ʿAyyāsh reported from ʿĀṣim:

After the death of Yazīd, Marwān said to Ibn ʿUmar, “Come, extend your hand so that we may pledge allegiance to you; you are the leader of the Arabs and the son of their leader.”

Ibn ʿUmar replied, “And what shall I do about the people of the East?”

Marwān said, “We will strike them until they give the pledge.”

Ibn ʿUmar responded, “By Allah, I would not wish it to submit to me for seventy years if a single man were killed by my sword.”

Marwān then recited:
“I see a trial whose cauldrons are boiling,
and, after Abū Laylā, rule belongs to whoever prevails.”

Abū Laylā is Muʿāwiya ibn Yazīd; his father secured the people’s pledge for him, but he lived only a few days. (1)

Abu Ḥāzim al-Madanī reported from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Dīnār:

I traveled with Ibn ʿUmar to Mecca. We stopped for the night, and a shepherd descended toward us from the mountain. Ibn ʿUmar asked him, “Are you a shepherd?”

He answered, “Yes.”

Ibn ʿUmar said, “Sell me one sheep from the flock.”

He replied, “I am a slave.”

Ibn ʿUmar said, “Tell your master that the wolf ate it.”

The shepherd answered, “Then where is Allah?”

Ibn ʿUmar repeated, “Then where is Allah!” and wept. He later bought the man and set him free.

Usāma ibn Zayd narrated from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar, a similar report. In the version of Ibn Abī Rawwād, from Nāfiʿ, Ibn ʿUmar set him free and bought the flock for him as well. (2)