Is the story of Umar ibn al-Khattab's saying to Amr ibn al-Aas, "Since when have you enslaved people, when their mothers bore them free?" authentic and can it be narrated to people?
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This story is not established, for it was narrated by Abu al-Arab Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Tamim al-Maghribi in "Kitab al-Mihan" with a weak chain of narration due to the anonymity of Ibn Ishaq's shaykh. It was also narrated by Ibn Abd al-Hakam in "Al-Futuh" with a chain of narration that cannot be used as proof due to the anonymity of the one who narrated it to Ibn Abd al-Hakam, and the anonymity of Abu Abdah, who narrated it from Thabit.
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