Hadith 154

(The book) ‘Amaali’ of the sheykh al Tusi – Al Mufeed, from Al Hassan Bin Abdullah Al Marzubany, from Abu Dureyd, from Is’haq Bin Abdullah Al Talajy who said, ‘Al-Asmaie said, ‘Umar Bin Al-Khattab made Ka’ab Bin Sowr to be in-charge to be a judge of Al-Basra, and the reason for what was that he had attended a gathering of Umar, a woman came and said, ‘O commander of the faithful! My husband is abstinent, strong’. Umar said, ‘This is a righteous person. I wish I was like that’. She repeated to him. Umar said just as he had said (before)’. Ka’ab Bin Sowr Al-Azdy, ‘O commander of the faithful! She is complaining good things about her husband, but she is saying there is no share for her from him’. He said, ‘To me with her husband! ’ They came with him. He said, ‘What is the matter for her complaining, and I have not seen any complaint more honourable than hers? ’ He said to him, ‘O commander of the faithful! I am such a person, it has alarmed me what has been Revealed in (Surahs) Al-Hijr and Al-Nahl and in the seven long ones’. Ka’ab said to him, ‘There is a right for her upon you, O husband, for fulfil the right, and Fast and pray Salat’. Umar said to Ka’ab, ‘Judge between the two’. He said, ‘Yes. Allah-azwj has Permitted four (wives) for the men, and it obligates a night for each one. For her is one night from four night, and (then) he can do in the tree whatever he so desires to’. He necessitated that to him, and Umar said to Ka’ab, ‘Go out as a judge upon Al-Basra! ’
He did not cease to be upon it until Usman was killed. When it was the day of the camel, he went out with the people of Al-Basra and there was a Quran in his neck. He was killed along with three brothers of his, or four. Their mother came and found them in the battleground and carried them, and went on saying (a couplet), ‘Whichever eyes leaks with tears upon youths from best of the Arabs, so the shame would not harm them when they are souls, and which whichever person of Quraysh had overcome (them)’’. [29]