Muwatta Malik #1041
Jihad
Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said that Umar ibn
al-Khattab in one year gave 40,000 camels as mounts. Sometimes he
would give one man a camel to himself. Sometimes he would give one
camel between two men to take them to Iraq. A man from Iraq came to
him and said, "Give Suhaym and I a mount.''Umar ibn al-Khattab said to
him,"l demand from you, by Allah!, is Suhaym a water skin?" He said,
"Yes."
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This hadith is #1041 from Muwatta Malik, in the Book of Jihad. Muwatta Malik contains 1,985 hadiths across 61 books.