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2284. Ibn 'Umar narrated that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: "While I was sleeping, I was
brought a cup of milk and I drank from it. Then I gave what I had left to 'Umar bin Al-Khaṭṭāb." They said: "How did you interpret it O Messenger of Allāh?" He said: "Knowledge." (Ṣaḥīḥ)
[He said:] There are narrations on this topic from Abū Hurairah, Abū Bakrah, Ibn 'Abbās, 'Abdullāh bin Salām, Khuzaimah, Aṭ-Ṭufail bin Sakḥbarah, Samurah, Abū Umāmah and Jābir. [He said:] The Hadīth of Ibn 'Umar is a Ṣaḥīḥ Hadīth.
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Just as milk is the food of man's physical life and the source of his nourishment, knowledge of religion and Revelation is the spiritual and moral food, and source of his spiritual and moral uplift. The part of the milk that the Prophet ﷺ left and gave to 'Umar ﷺ had the effect that a number of cases Allāh ﷻ decreed in agreement with 'Umar's view. Even Shaitān avoided the road that 'Umar trod. Ibn Mas'ūd ﷺ used to say that nine tenths of the knowledge was possessed by 'Umar.
