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Yahya related to me from Malik, from Yahya ibn Said, that he heard Said ibn al-Musayyab relating from Abu Hurayra that he was once coming back from Bahrayn, and, when he reached ar-Rabadha, he found a caravan of people from Iraq in ihram, who asked him whether they could eat the meat of some game which they had found with the people of ar- Rabadha, and he told them they could eat it. He said, "Afterwards I had doubts about what I had told them to do, so when I got back to Madina I mentioned the matter to Umar ibn al-Khattab and he said, 'What did you tell them to do?' I said, ' I told them to eat it.' Umar ibn al-Khattab said, threatening me, 'If you had told them to do anything else I would have done something to you

وحدثني عن مالك، عن يحيى بن سعيد، انه سمع سعيد بن المسيب، يحدث عن ابي هريرة، انه اقبل من البحرين حتى اذا كان بالربذة وجد ركبا من اهل العراق محرمين فسالوه عن لحم صيد وجدوه عند اهل الربذة فامرهم باكله قال ثم اني شككت فيما امرتهم به فلما قدمت المدينة ذكرت ذلك لعمر بن الخطاب فقال عمر ماذا امرتهم به فقال امرتهم باكله . فقال عمر بن الخطاب لو امرتهم بغير ذلك لفعلت بك يتواعده