‘Abdullaah bin ‘Umar (radhiyallaahu ‘anhumaa)

Naafi’ said: “Ibn ‘Umar (radhiyallaahu ‘anhu) would distribute thirty thousand in a sitting, and then there would come upon him a month in which he would not find a small piece of meat to eat.”

Naafi’ said: “There once came to Ibn ‘Umar twenty odd thousand; and so he did not get up until he had distributed it.”

‘Umar bin Muhammad bin Zaid said from his father that Ibn ‘Umar had a youth he owned under contract of (the price of) forty thousand, and he had left for Koofah where he was working on some donkeys of his until he had managed to contribute fifteen thousand.

So a man came to him and said: “Are you mad? You are here punishing yourself whilst Ibn ‘Umar purchases slaves right and left and then sets them free. Go back to him and say: ‘I am incapable’” (i.e. of paying the rest).

So he (the slave) came to him with a paper and said: “O Abaa ‘Abdir-Rahmaan! I am incapable, and this is my paper (contract), so rub it (the remaining payment) out.’

So he replied: “No, but you rub it out if you want,’ So he rubbed it out, whereupon the eyes of ‘Abdullaah (ibn ‘Umar) became filled with tears, and then he said: “Go, for you are free.”

So he said: “May Allaah rectify you, show excellence to my two sons,” So he replied: “They are both free.”

He said: “May Allaah rectify you, show excellence to the two female slaves who are mothers to my two boys,”

So he said: “They are both free.”[39]

Siyar A’laam an-Nubalaa vol 3 p.216 - 218

Subhanallah!