Yahya related to me from Malik, from Yahya ibn Said, that he
heard Said ibn al-Musayyab relating from Abu Hurayra that he was once
coming back from Bahrayn, and, when he reached ar-Rabadha, he found a
caravan of people from Iraq in ihram, who asked him whether they could
eat the meat of some game which they had found with the people of ar-
Rabadha, and he told them they could eat it. He said, "Afterwards I
had doubts about what I had told them to do, so when I got back to
Madina I mentioned the matter to Umar ibn al-Khattab and he said,
'What did you tell them to do?' I said, ' I told them to eat it.' Umar
ibn al-Khattab said, threatening me, 'If you had told them to do
anything else I would have done something to you.' "
Muwatta Malik Book 20, Hadith 82