كتاب دعوة المظلومThe Supplication of the Unjustly Wronged

Yahya related to me from Malik from Zayd ibn Aslam from his

father that Umar ibn al-Khattab gave a mawla of his called Hunayy

charge over the hima. He said, "Hunayy! Do not harm the people. Fear

the supplication of the wronged, for the supplication of the wronged

is answered. Let the one with a small herd of camels and the one with

a small herd of sheep enter, but be wary of the livestock of Ibn Awf

and the livestock of Ibn Affan. If their livestock are destroyed, they

will return to palm-trees and agriculture. If the livestock of the one

with a small herd of camels and the one with a small herd of sheep are

destroyed, he will bring his children to me crying, 'Amir al-muminin!

Amir al-Muminin!' Shall I neglect them? Water and pasturage are of

less value to me than gold and silver. By Allah, they think that I

have wronged them. This is their land and their water. They fought for

it in the jahiliyya and became muslims on it in Islam. By He in whose

hand my self is! Were it not for the mounts which I give to be ridden

in the way of Allah, I would not have turned a span of their land into

hima."