233 — Ishāq ibn Ismāʿīl narrated to us: Maʿn ibn ʿĪsā narrated to me. He said: ʿAbd al-Rahmān ibn Abī al-Zinād narrated to me, from Hishām ibn ʿUrwa, who said: While Umar was circumambulating the Kaaba, he came upon a man carrying his mother and reciting:

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“I carry my mother, she who once carried me;
She nursed me with milk in full flow and to the last drops.
Can such a deed ever repay a parent?”

Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) replied, “No—not even a single suckling.”