Hadith 7411

Yahya related to me from Malik, from Yahya ibn Said, that heheard Said ibn al-Musayyab relating from Abu Hurayra that he was oncecoming back from Bahrayn, and, when he reached ar-Rabadha, he found acaravan of people from Iraq in ihram, who asked him whether they couldeat 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 Ihad doubts about what I had told them to do, so when I got back toMadina 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.' Umaribn al-Khattab said, threatening me, 'If you had told them to doanything else I would have done something to you.' "