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This article is not about Asim ibn Umar ibn Qatada ibn al-Nu'man al-Ansari"s (d 120 or 129). Asim ibn Umar was one of the Tabi‘in and one of the narrators of hadith. A narration attributed to Malik from Yahya ibn Said reports: A woman of the Ansar was married to Umar ibn al-Khattab.
She bore Asim ibn Umar to him, and then he separated from her.
He took him by the arm and placed him before him on his mount. The grandmother of the child saw him and argued with Umar about the child so they went to Abu Bakr as-Siddiq.
Yahya said that he heard Malik say, "This is what I would have done in that situation.
