‘O Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, could you not have made it a genuine one?’ He replied, ‘That is simply what came to my mind.’

Al-Aʿmash and others narrated from Nāfiʿ:

Ibn ʿUmar fell ill and, when the first grapes of the season appeared, he longed for some. His wife therefore sent a servant with a dirham and he bought a single cluster. A beggar followed the messenger, and when the servant entered the house Ibn ʿUmar said, “The beggar, the beggar!” So Ibn ʿUmar said, “Give it to him.”

She then sent another dirham; the beggar followed again, and when the servant came in he said, “The beggar, the beggar!” Ibn ʿUmar said, “Give it to him,” and they handed it over. Safiyyah then sent word to the beggar, saying, “By Allah, if you come back again you will receive no good from me.” She subsequently sent yet another dirham and bought with it (1).

Mālik ibn Mighwal (2) narrated from Nāfiʿ:

Some jawārish (3) was brought to Ibn ʿUmar, but he disliked it and said, “I have not eaten my fill for such-and-such a time” (4).

Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Uways reported: Sulaymān ibn Bilāl narrated from Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad, from Nāfiʿ, that al-Mukhtār ibn Abī ʿUbayd used to send money to Ibn ʿUmar, and he would accept it, saying, “I ask nothing of anyone, yet I do not reject what Allah provides me with” (5).

Al-Thawrī narrated from Abū al-Wāziʿ: I said to Ibn ʿUmar, “People will remain in a good state so long as Allah keeps you alive for them.” He became angry and said, “I suspect you are an Iraqi! How can you know what a man hides behind his own door?” (6)