that he was thinking of Allah’s words: “You will never attain righteousness until you spend of that which you love” [Āl ʿImrān (1): 92].

Ibn Shihāb said: Ibn ʿUmar once intended to curse a servant; he began, “O Allah, curse …,” then left the phrase unfinished and said, “I do not wish to utter that word.” (2)

Jaʿfar ibn Burqān related from Maymūn ibn Mihrān, from Nāfiʿ:
“A sum of twenty-odd thousand was brought to Ibn ʿUmar, and he did not rise before he had given it all away.” (3)

This was also transmitted by ʿĪsā ibn Kathīr from Maymūn, who said: “It was twenty-two thousand dinars.”

Abū Hilāl said: Ayūb ibn Wāʾil told us:
“Ten thousand were brought to Ibn ʿUmar; he distributed them, and the next morning he was looking for fodder for his mount on credit for a single dirham.” (4)

Burdu ibn Sinān narrated from Nāfiʿ:
“Ibn ʿUmar would sometimes hand out thirty thousand in one sitting, and then a whole month would pass without his eating even a morsel of meat.” (5)

ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad al-ʿUmarī narrated from Nāfiʿ:
“Ibn ʿUmar did not depart this world until he had manumitted a thousand people—or even more.” (6)