and give me the ḥadīth face-to-face.
He said, “I heard Thawbān relate that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:
‘The area of my Basin stretches from ʿAdan to ʿAmmān al-Balqāʾ. Its water is whiter than milk and sweeter than honey; its drinking cups are as numerous as the stars in the sky. Whoever drinks a single draught from it will never thirst again. The first people to reach it will be the poor Emigrants—those with unkempt hair and soiled clothes—who do not marry women of luxury and before whose doors no bolts are drawn.’
ʿUmar said, “But I have married a woman of luxury—Fāṭimah bint ʿAbd al-Malik—so, by Allah, I shall not wash my head until it is tousled, nor change my garment until it becomes dirty.” (1)

They said: He kept one lamp for writing his personal needs and another belonging to the public treasury for the affairs of the Muslims; he would never write a single word for himself by the light of the treasury’s lamp. Each morning he would recite from the muṣḥaf, though he did not prolong his reading. He had three hundred police officers and three hundred bodyguards. A kinsman once sent him a gift of apples; he merely smelled them, then sent them back with the messenger, saying, “Tell him they have reached the place they deserve.”
A man remarked, “O Commander of the Believers, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to accept gifts, and this man is from your own household.”
He replied, “A gift was truly a gift for the Messenger of Allah ﷺ; as for us, it is a bribe.” (2)

They also said: He was generous with the stipends of his governors, giving a man among them one hundred or two hundred dinars each month, reasoning that if they were financially secure they could devote themselves fully to the Muslims’ affairs. Some said to him, “Why do you not spend on your own family as you spend on your governors?”
He answered, “I will not withhold from them what is rightfully theirs, nor will I give them what belongs to someone else.”

His household endured severe hardship, but he excused himself by saying that they still had large advances from earlier times. One day he said to a man from the descendants of ʿAlī, “I am ashamed before Allah that you should stand at my door and not be admitted.”
To another of them he said, “I am ashamed before Allah—and I honor you too highly—to stain you with worldly matters after Allah has ennobled you.”
He also said, “We and our cousins, the Banū Hāshim, used to alternate—sometimes we sought refuge with them and sometimes they sought refuge with us—until the sun of the Message rose. It rendered every counterfeit worthless, silenced every hypocrite, and muted every speaker.” (3)

Aḥmad ibn Marwān said: Abū Bakr, the brother of (4) Khiṭāb, narrated to us; Khālid ibn Khaddāsh narrated to us; Ḥammād ibn Zayd narrated from Mūsā ibn Aʿyan the shepherd—who used to tend the sheep of Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿUyaynah—who said: “The lions, the sheep, and the wild game …”