It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) addressed the people and said: "O people, do not go to excess in the dowries of women, for if this were a matter of honour (in this world), none of you would have been more deserving or more fitting for it than the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). (The fact is that) he (peace and blessings be upon him) did not set the dowry of any of his wives or daughters at more than twelve uqiyah." And one uqiyah is forty dirhams, except for the dowry that al-Najashi paid on his (peace and blessings be upon him) behalf in the land of Abyssinia (for Sayyidah Umm Habibah (may Allah be pleased with her)), which was four hundred dinars.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) addressed the people and then said: "O people, keep (the amount of) women's dowries small, for if large dowries were a matter of piety with Allah and of honour and nobility in this world, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) would have been the most deserving of it. Yet we do not know of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) having given any of his pure wives a dowry of more than twelve uqiyah; one uqiyah is forty dirhams, so these (twelve uqiyah) come to four hundred and eighty dirhams, and that was the highest dowry the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) gave. So let me not find anyone who has fixed a dowry of more than four hundred dirhams."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Do not go to extremes and excess in the dowries of women." Then the narrator mentioned the complete hadith.