Mishkat al-Masabih
Mishkat al-Masabih 1836
عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ أَسْلَمَ قَالَ: شَرِبَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الْخَطَّابِ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ لَبَنًا فَأَعْجَبَهُ فَسَأَلَ الَّذِي سَقَاهُ: مِنْ أَيْنَ هَذَا اللَّبَنُ؟ فَأَخْبَرَهُ أَنَّهُ وَرَدَ عَلَى مَاءٍ قَدْ سَمَّاهُ فَإِذَا نَعَمٌ مِنْ نَعَمِ الصَّدَقَةِ وَهُمْ يَسْقُونَ فَحَلَبُوا مِنْ أَلْبَانِهَا فَجَعَلْتُهُ فِي سِقَائِي فَهُوَ هَذَا: فَأدْخل عمر يَده فاستقاءه. رَوَاهُ مَالِكٌ وَالْبَيْهَقِيُّ فِي شُعَبِ الْإِيمَانِ
Zayd ibn Aslam said: Umar ibn al-Khattab drank some milk and liked it. He asked the man who had given it to him, ‘Where did this milk come from?’ He informed him that he had gone to a watering place he named, where there were camels from the alms being watered. They milked some of their milk and he put it in his waterskin, ‘and this is it.’ Umar put his hand in his mouth and made himself vomit. Malik and al-Bayhaqi transmitted it in Shuʿab al-Iman.
Translation notes
The Arabic says ‘they milked from their milk’; it does not identify who performed the milking. The name of the watering place is described as having been mentioned but is not supplied in this passage.