ʿUbayd (1) Allah reported from Nāfiʿ, who said:
Ibn ʿUmar never admired anything he owned without at once sending it on ahead (as charity). On one occasion he was riding his she-camel and found himself pleased with her, so he called out, “Ikh, ikh!” He made her kneel and said, “Nāfiʿ, take the saddle off her.” He then covered her, placed a garland on her, and added her to his sacrificial camels (2).

ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn Zayd related from his father:
Ibn ʿUmar drew up a manumission contract (3) with a slave boy for forty thousand. The boy went off to Kufa, earned his living working with some donkeys he had, and managed to pay fifteen thousand (4). Then someone came to him and said, “Are you out of your mind? You are wearing yourself out here, while Ibn ʿUmar is buying slaves right and left and setting them free. Go back to him and say, ‘I cannot continue.’”

So he returned with the document and said, “Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, I have failed, and here is my contract. Please erase it.” Ibn ʿUmar replied, “No; rather, erase it yourself if you wish.” He erased it, whereupon Ibn ʿUmar’s eyes filled with tears, and he said, “Go—you are free.”

The man said, “May Allah set you right; be good to my two sons.” He answered, “They are both free.” He said, “May Allah set you right; be good to the mothers of my children.” He replied, “They are both free as well.” (5)

This was narrated by Ibn Wahb from him.

ʿĀṣim ibn Muḥammad al-ʿUmarī reported from his father:
ʿAbd Allah ibn Jaʿfar offered Ibn ʿUmar ten thousand for Nāfiʿ. Ibn ʿUmar went in to his wife Ṣafiyya and told her, whereupon she said, “What are you waiting for?” He replied, “Shall I not do something even better? He is free for the sake of Allah.” It seemed to me