213 – Isḥāq ibn Ismāʿīl narrated to us: Wahb ibn Jarīr reported to us, from his father, from al-Aʿmash, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Khālid al-ʿAbsī: ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb once saw a group of people gathered around something he disapproved of, so he advanced on them with the dirrah (a short whip) and they dispersed. One man remained standing; ʿUmar struck him and said, “What made you stand before me so that I struck you? Could you not have left as your companions did?” The man answered, “Commander of the Believers, Allah has granted you—or, he said, every Muslim—a right over me comparable to the right a father has over his child. When I saw you rushing forward, I disliked that you should tire yourself, so I stayed where I was that you might discharge your need upon me.” ʿUmar asked, “Was it truly for Allah’s sake that you did what you did?” The man swore that it was. ʿUmar then took him by the hand, sat down with him, and continued to honor him until he himself departed this world.