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Is it possible to identify the narrator of the hadith: "A man came to Omar ibn al-Khattab and said to him, 'Fear Allah, O Omar.' A wave of anger swept through those sitting [around Omar]. Omar then said to them, 'There is no good in you if you do not say it, and there is no good in us if we do not accept it'"?

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Ibn Shaybah, Al-Tawhidi, Ibn Rajab, and others reported an account from Al-Hasan Al-Basri that a man said to Umar ibn Al-Khattab: "Fear Allah, O Commander of the Believers, for by Allah, the matter is not as you have stated." Those present wanted to silence the man, but Umar said: "Leave them be."

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