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?
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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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