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bayhaqi:18684[Chain 1] Abū Naṣr b. Qatādah > Abū ʿAmr b. Maṭar > Muḥammad b. Yaḥyá b. Sulaymān > ʿĀṣim b. ʿAlī > Shuʿbah [Chain 2] al-Sharīf Abū al-Fatḥ Nāṣir b. al-Ḥusayn al-ʿUmarī > ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Abū Shurayḥ > Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī > ʿAlī b. al-Jaʿd > Shuʿbah > al-Ḥakam > ʿAmr b. Maymūn > ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb ؓ Fadhakarah > Thum Atāh ʿUthmān b. Ḥunayf Fjaʿal Yukallimuh from And Rāʾ al-Fusṭāṭ

[Machine] Yes, the number was forty-eight, but he made it fifty. Ash-Shafi'i, may Allah have mercy on him, narrated in the past from Ibrahim ibn Saad from Ibn Shihab that Umar, may Allah be pleased with him, used to increase the stipend for the people of As-Sawad when they were self-sufficient, and when they became poor, he would relieve them. And this (narration) is disconnected.  

البيهقي:١٨٦٨٤أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو نَصْرِ بْنُ قَتَادَةَ أنبأ أَبُو عَمْرِو بْنُ مَطَرٍ أنبأ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ ثنا عَاصِمُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ ثنا شُعْبَةُ ح وَأَخْبَرَنَا الشَّرِيفُ أَبُو الْفَتْحِ نَاصِرُ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ الْعُمَرِيُّ أنبأ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ أَبِي شُرَيْحٍ ثنا أَبُو الْقَاسِمِ الْبَغَوِيُّ ثنا عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْجَعْدِ ثنا شُعْبَةُ أَخْبَرَنِي الْحَكَمُ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ عَمْرَو بْنَ مَيْمُونٍ يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِ ؓ فَذَكَرَهُ قَالَ ثُمَّ أَتَاهُ عُثْمَانُ بْنُ حُنَيْفٍ فجَعَلَ يُكَلِّمُهُ مِنْ وَرَاءِ الْفُسْطَاطِ يَقُولُ وَاللهِ لَئنْ وَضَعْتَ عَلَى كُلِّ جَرِيبٍ مِنْ أَرْضٍ دِرْهَمًا وَقَفِيزًا مِنْ طَعَامٍ وَزِدْتَ عَلَى كُلِّ رَأْسٍ دِرْهَمَيْنِ لَا يَشُقُّ ذَلِكَ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلَا يُجْهِدُهُمْ قَالَ

نَعَمْ فَكَانَ ثَمَانِيَةً وَأَرْبَعِينَ فَجَعَلَهَا خَمْسِينَ وَرَوَى الشَّافِعِيُّ رَحِمَهُ اللهُ فِي الْقَدِيمِ عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ سَعْدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ أَنَّ عُمَرَ ؓ كَانَ إِذَا اسْتَغْنَى أَهْلُ السَّوَادِ زَادَ عَلَيْهِمْ وَإِذَا افْتَقَرُوا وَضَعَ عَنْهُمْ وَهَذَا مُنْقَطِعٌ