Sālim and ʿAbdullāh, and he gave me her hand in marriage.(1)

Through this same chain reaching Bishr: Khalād ibn Yaḥyā narrated to us; Hārūn ibn Abī Ibrāhīm narrated to us, from ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿUbayd ibn ʿUmayr, from Ibn ʿUmar, who said:

‘Our situation in this turmoil is like that of a people travelling along a road they know well. While they are on it, a cloud and darkness suddenly envelop them; some of them turn right and left and miss the path, whereas we remained where that befell us until Allah cleared it away. We then saw our original road, recognised it, and resumed walking upon it. These are only the youths of Quraysh fighting over authority and over this worldly life. I care no more for what they are killing one another to obtain than I care for these two worn-out sandals of mine.(2)’

ʿAbdullāh ibn Numayr related—from ʿĀṣim al-Aḥwal, from someone who told him—that whenever anyone saw Ibn ʿUmar he would assume that he was following some trace of the Prophet ﷺ.(3)

Wakīʿ narrated—from Abū Mawdūd, from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar—that while on the road to Mecca he would lean over the neck of his mount and say, ‘Perhaps a hoof will fall upon a hoof,’ meaning the hoof of the Messenger of Allah’s mount.(4)

Ibn Ḥazm said in his book al-Iḥkām(5), chapter twenty-eight: ‘Among the Companions who issued a great number of fatwas were: ʿUmar, his son ʿAbdullāh, ʿAlī, ʿĀʾishah, Ibn—’