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7323. Narrated Ibn 'Abbās رضي الله عنهما used to teach the Qur'ān to 'Abdur-Raḥmān bin 'Auf. When 'Umar performed his last Hajj, 'Abdur-Raḥmān said (to me) at Mina, "Would that you had seen chief of the believers today! A man came to him and said, "So-and-so has said, 'If chief of the believers died, we will give the Bai'a (pledge) to such and such person.''" 'Umar said, 'I will get up tonight and warn those who want to usurp the people's rights.' I said, 'Do not do so, for the season (of Hajj) gathers the riffraff mob who will form the majority of your audience, and I am afraid that they will not understand (the meaning of) your saying properly and may spread (an incorrect statement) everywhere. You should wait till we reach Al-Madina, the place of emigration and the place of the Prophet's Sunna. There you will meet the Companions of Allāh's Messenger ﷺ from the Muhājirūn and the Anṣār who will understand your statement and put it in its proper place.' Umar said, 'By Allāh, I shall do so the first time I stand (to address the people) in Al-Madina.' When we reached Al-Madina, Umar (in a Friday Khutba) said, "No doubt, Allāh sent Muḥammad ﷺ with the Truth and revealed to him the Book (the Qur'ān, and among that which was revealed, was the Verse of Rajm (stoning the married adulterers to death)."[See Vol. 8, Hadīth No. 6830]
