#25 Gold and silver
Book of Holding Fast to the Qur’an and Sunnah
(2)
Chapter: Following the Sunna of the Prophet (saws)
Hadith 7275
Narrated Abu Wail:
I sat with Shaiba in this Mosque (Al-Masjid-Al-Haram), and he said, “`Umar once sat beside me here as you are now sitting, and said, ‘I feel like distributing all the gold and silver that are in it (i.e., the Ka`ba) among the Muslims’. I said, ‘You cannot do that.’ `Umar said, ‘Why?’ I said, ‘Your two (previous) companions (the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) and Abu Bakr) did not do it. `Umar said, ‘They are the two persons whom one must follow.'” (See Hadith No. 664, Vol. 2)
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