Yahya related to me from Malik from Zayd ibn Aslam from
his father that Umar ibn al-Khattab gave a mawla of his
called Hunayy charge over the hima. He said, "Hunayy! Do
not harm the people. Fear the supplication of the wronged,
for the supplication of the wronged is answered. Let the
one with a small herd of camels and the one with a small
herd of sheep enter, but be wary of the livestock of Ibn
Awf and the livestock of Ibn Affan. If their livestock are
destroyed, they will return to palm-trees and agriculture.
If the livestock of the one with a small herd of camels
and the one with a small herd of sheep are destroyed, he
will bring his children to me crying, 'Amir al-muminin!
Amir al-Muminin!' Shall I neglect them? Water and
pasturage are of less value to me than gold and silver. By
Allah, they think that I have wronged them. This is their
land and their water. They fought for it in the jahiliyya
and became muslims on it in Islam. By He in whose hand my
self is! Were it not for the mounts which I give to be
ridden in the way of Allah, I would not have turned a span
of their land into hima."