How sound are the circulating stories regarding Umar ibn al-Khattab's retribution against the son of the Amir of Egypt who struck the son of an Egyptian man, and regarding Ali ibn Abi Talib and a dhimmi resorting to a judge over a shield, and what was the Egyptian's religion in the first story, taking into account Ibn Kathir's weakening of the second story?
The two stories (the story of Omar and Ali) are well-known in books of reports and history. Ibn al-Jawzi and Kanz al-Ummal mentioned their details, and no scholar has deemed them weak. The Egyptian who was beaten was a Copt, and his assailant was the son of Amr ibn al-Aas, the governor.
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