In sum, Abu Bakr—may Allah be pleased with him—showed remarkable scrupulousness: once he realized he had eaten something forbidden, he forced it out of his stomach so that his body would not be nourished by it. Allah alone grants success.
8/595 – Nafiʿ reported that ʿUmar ibn al-Khattab—may Allah be pleased with him—set the stipend for the earliest Emigrants at four thousand, but fixed his own son’s allowance at three thousand five hundred. People said to him, “He too is one of the Emigrants; why did you reduce his share?” He replied, “His father is the one who performed the Hijrah with him; he did not emigrate on his own. One who is carried along by his father is not like the man who emigrates of his own accord.” Reported by al-Bukhari.
9/596 – ʿAtiyyah ibn ʿUrwah al-Saʿdi, a Companion—may Allah be pleased with him—said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ declared, “A servant will not reach the rank of the God-fearing until he abandons what is harmless for fear of falling into what is harmful.” Reported by al-Tirmidhi, who graded it ḥasan (sound).
[Explanation]
The compiler—may Allah have mercy on him—cites in the chapter on scrupulousness and avoiding dubious matters, on the authority of Nafiʿ from ʿAbdullah ibn ʿUmar—may Allah be pleased with them both—that the Commander of the Believers ʿUmar ibn al-Khattab allocated stipends from the public treasury. He granted the Emigrants four thousand, while assigning his own son ʿAbdullah three thousand five hundred. Although ʿAbdullah himself was an Emigrant, his father reduced his share by five hundred from the four thousand allotted to the others