Al-Adab Al-Mufrad
Book 55, Hadith 17
حَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي شَيْخٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْخَيْرِ يُكَنَّى أَبَا عُقْبَةَ قَالَ: مَرَرْتُ مَعَ ابْنِ عُمَرَ مَرَّةً بِالطَّرِيقِ، فَمَرَّ بِغِلْمَةٍ مِنَ الْحَبَشِ، فَرَآهُمْ يَلْعَبُونَ، فَأَخْرَجَ دِرْهَمَيْنِ فَأَعْطَاهُمْ.
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Musa related to us: ‘Abd al-‘Aziz related to us: A virtuous elder, known by the kunya Abu ‘Uqbah, related to me, saying: I was once walking along the road with Ibn ‘Umar. He passed by some Abyssinian boys and saw them playing, so he took out two dirhams and gave them to them.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
In the Arabic, Ibn ‘Umar is the one who passes the boys, sees them playing, and gives them the two dirhams.