After resuming the land grants made by `Uthman ibn `Affan, he said:

Pearl of Wisdom

to 'Abd al-Ra man b. Samura, ?O 'Abd al-Ra man b. Samura, do not ask for authority, for if you were to be given it by asking for it, then you will be entrusted with it to your own self [and held accountable], and if you are given it without having asked for it, then you will be helped with it.'

Prophet Muhammad al-Mustafa [sawa]

Sunan Abi Dawud, v. 3, p. 130, no. 2929

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After resuming the land grants made by `Uthman ibn `Affan, he said:

Sermon 15 After resuming the land grants made by `Uthman ibn `Affan, he said:

By Allah, even if I had found that by such money women have been married or slave-maids have been purchased I would have resumed it because there is wide scope in dispensation of justice, and he who finds it hard to act justly should find it harder to deal with injustice.