What is the authenticity of the narration which states that Umar ibn al-Khattab puffed and twirled his mustache when a Bedouin complained to him that their lands, for which they fought in the pre-Islamic era (Jahiliyyah) and embraced Islam upon, were now being withheld from them?
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This tradition was narrated by Ibn Sa'd with an authentic chain of transmission whose narrators are trustworthy. It was used as evidence by Ibn Hajar, Al-Shirazi, Ibn Qudamah, Ibn Muflih, Al-Zarqani, and Al-Hattab, and no one has impugned its authenticity.
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