Muwatta Malik #1710

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Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said from Said ibn al-Musayyab that Umar ibn al-Khattab killed five or seven people for one man whom they had killed secretly by trickery. Umar said, "Had all the people of Sana joined forces against him, I would have killed them all."

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This hadith is #1710 from Muwatta Malik, in the Book of Blood-Money. Muwatta Malik contains 1,985 hadiths across 61 books.

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