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Yahya related to me from Malik from Muhammad ibn al-Munkadir and
from Salim ibn Abi'n-Nadr, the mawla of Umar ibn Ubaydullah that Amir
ibn Sad ibn Abi Waqqas heard his father ask Usama ibn Zayd, "Have you
heard anything from the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and
grant him peace, about the plague?" Usama said, "The Messenger of
Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, 'The plague is a
punishment that was sent down on a party of the Banu Israil or whoever
was before them. When you hear of it in a land, do not enter it. If it
comes upon a land and you are in it, do not depart in flight from it.'
"
Muwatta Malik Book 45, Hadith 22
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Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Abd al-Hamid
ibn Abd ar-Rahman ibn Zayd ibn al-Khattab from Abdullah ibn Abdullah
ibn al-Harith ibn Nawfal from Abdullah ibn Abbas that Umar ibn al-
Khattab set out for ash Sham and when he was at Sargh, near Tabuk, the
commanders of the army, Abu Ubayda ibn al-Jarrah and his companions,
met him and told him that the plague had broken out in ash-Sham. Ibn
Abbas said, "Umar ibn al-Khattab said, 'all the first Muhajir unto
me.' He assembled them and asked them for advice, informing them that
the plague had broken out in ash Sham. They disagreed. Some said, 'You
have set out for something, and we do not think that you should leave
it.' Others said, 'You have the companions of the Prophet, may Allah
bless him and grant him peace, and the rest of the people with you,
and we do not think that you should send them towards this plague.'
Umar said, 'Leave me.'
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Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Abdullah ibn
Amir ibn Rabia that Umar ibn al-Khattab went out to ash-Sham. When he
came to Sargh, near Tabuk, he heard that the plague had broken out in
ash-Sham. Abd ar-Rahman ibn Awf told him that the Messenger of Allah,
may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "If you hear that a
land has a plague in it, do not go forward to it. If it comes upon a
land which you are in, do not depart in flight from it." Umar ibn al-
Khattab came back from Sargh.