Musnad Ahmad
Musnad Ahmad 323
حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ آدَمَ، حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عَيَّاشٍ، عَنْ حَكِيمِ بْنِ حَكِيمٍ، عَنْ أَبِي أُمَامَةَ بْنِ سَهْلٍ، قَالَ كَتَبَ عُمَرُ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ إِلَى أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ بْنِ الْجَرَّاحِ أَنْ عَلِّمُوا غِلْمَانَكُمْ الْعَوْمَ وَمُقَاتِلَتَكُمْ الرَّمْيَ فَكَانُوا يَخْتَلِفُونَ إِلَى الْأَغْرَاضِ فَجَاءَ سَهْمٌ غَرْبٌ إِلَى غُلَامٍ فَقَتَلَهُ فَلَمْ يُوجَدْ لَهُ أَصْلٌ وَكَانَ فِي حَجْرِ خَالٍ لَهُ فَكَتَبَ فِيهِ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ إِلَى عُمَرَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ إِلَى مَنْ أَدْفَعُ عَقْلَهُ فَكَتَبَ إِلَيْهِ عُمَرُ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ كَانَ يَقُولُ اللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُ مَوْلَى مَنْ لَا مَوْلَى لَهُ وَالْخَالُ وَارِثُ مَنْ لَا وَارِثَ لَهُ.
Yahya ibn Adam narrated to us; Sufyan narrated to us, from ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn ‘Ayyash, from Hakim ibn Hakim, from Abu Umamah ibn Sahl, who said: ‘Umar, may Allah be pleased with him, wrote to Abu ‘Ubaydah ibn al-Jarrah: “Teach your boys to swim and your fighters to shoot arrows.” They would regularly go to the targets for practice. An errant arrow struck a boy and killed him; its source could not be found. The boy was in the care of a maternal uncle. Abu ‘Ubaydah wrote to ‘Umar, may Allah be pleased with him, asking, “To whom should I deliver his blood money?” ‘Umar wrote back to him: “The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, used to say: Allah and His Messenger are the patron of one who has no patron, and the maternal uncle is the heir of one who has no heir.”’