Ibn Abu Mulayka reported that the two excellent men, Abu Bakr and Umar, nearly destroyed themselves. When the delegation of Banu Tamim came to the Prophet ﷺ, one of them recommended Aqra bin Habis al-Hanzali, brother of Banu Mujash, while the other recommended someone else.Abu Bakr said to Umar, "You only intended to oppose me."Umar replied, "I did not intend to oppose you."Their voices rose in the presence of the Prophet ﷺ, so the verse was revealed, "Believers, do not raise your voices above the voice of the Prophet... great" [Hujurat 49:2–3].Ibn Zubayr said that afterwards, when anyone spoke to the Prophet ﷺ, Umar would speak to him like one whispering a secret, so quietly that the Prophet ﷺ could not hear him until he asked him to repeat himself. He did not mention the same about his father, meaning Abu Bakr.
كاد الخيران أن يهلكا: أبو بكر وعمر لما قدم على النبي ﷺ وفد بني تميم أحدهما بالأقرع بن حابس الحنظلي أخي بني مجاشع وأشار الآخر بغيره، فقال أبو بكر لعمر: إنما أردت خلافي. فقال عمر: ما أردت خلافك. فارتفعت أصواتهما عند النبي ﷺ فنزلت: {يأيها الذين ءامنوا لا ترفعوا أصواتكم فوق صوت النبي} إلى قوله- {عظيم} [الحجرات: ٢-٣] قال ابن أبي مليكة: قال ابن الزبير: فكان عمر بعد-ولم يذكر ذلك عن أبيه، يعني أبا بكر- إذا حدث النبي ﷺ بحديث حدثه كأخي السرار، لم يسمعه حتى يستفهمه.
Bukhari narrated it in the Book of Holding Fast (7302), from Muhammad bin Muqatil, Waki told us, from Nafi bin Umar, from Ibn Abu Mulayka, and he related it.On this subject there is also what has been narrated from Abyad bin Hammal, that he spoke with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ about sadaqah when he came to him as a delegate, so he said, "O brother of Saba, sadaqah is unavoidable." He said, "We only grow cotton, O Messenger of Allah, and the people of Saba have scattered and only a few of them remain at Marib." So the Prophet of Allah ﷺ made a settlement of seventy garments of cloth, equal in value to Maafiri cloth, every year, from those of Saba who remained at Marib. They kept paying this until the Messenger of Allah ﷺ passed away.Then the officials went back on it after the death of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, regarding what Abyad bin Hammal had settled with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ concerning the seventy garments. Abu Bakr restored it to what the Messenger of Allah ﷺ had established, until Abu Bakr died. When Abu Bakr died, that arrangement was annulled, and it reverted to sadaqah.Abu Dawud narrated it (3028) through several routes from Faraj bin Saeed, who said, my uncle Thabit bin Saeed bin Abyad told me, from his father Saeed, from his grandfather Abyad bin Hammal, and he related it.In its chain is Thabit bin Saeed bin Abyad, for whom no narrator is mentioned other than Faraj bin Saeed, and no one confirmed his reliability except Ibn Hibban. For this reason Ibn Hajar said, "Acceptable," meaning when corroborated, and I have not found any corroboration for him.Also in it is Saeed bin Abyad bin Hammal, for whom no narrator is mentioned other than his son Thabit bin Saeed, and no confirmation of his reliability has been transmitted from anyone other than Ibn Hibban, who mentioned him among the reliable narrators. For this reason Ibn Hajar said, "Acceptable," meaning when corroborated. I have not found any corroboration for him either.Abdull-Haq Ishbili said, "The chain of this hadith cannot be relied upon, as far as I know, because Saeed, as I see it, was only narrated from by Thabit, and Thabit is just as weak as him." End of quote. Ibn Qayyim transmitted this from him in Tahzib Sunan (4/245).