English translation
3156. Narrated 'Umar (bin Dīnār): I was sitting with Jābir bin Zaid and 'Amr bin 'Aus; and Bajāla was narrating to them in 70 A.H., the year when Muṣ'ab bin Az-Zubair was the leader of the pilgrims of Baṣrah. We were sitting at the steps of Zamzam well and Bajāla said, "I was the clerk of Jaz' bin Mu'āwiya, Al-Aḥnaf's paternal uncle. A letter came from 'Umar bin Al-Khaṭṭāb one year before his death; and it was read: 'Cancel every marriage contracted among the Magians between relatives of close kinship (marriages that are regarded illegal in Islām : a relative of this sort being called Dhū-Mahram).(1) ‘Umar did not take the Jizya from the Magian infidels