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I've just realised that this editor didn't add this claim on this date, but did so at this edit at 02:13, 12 August 2008 (UTC). In the diff below they are just re-organizing the article. So, different edit, but the same editor.

Welfare state

— 14:58, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

This edit added the claim that:

The Caliphate is thus considered the world's first major welfare state.

The sources cited for this were:

Crone, Patricia (2005). Medieval Islamic Political Thought. Edinburgh University Press. pp. 308–309. ISBN 9780748621941.

Hamid, Shadi (August 2003). "An Islamic Alternative? Equality, Redistributive Justice, and the Welfare State in the Caliphate of 'Umar". Monthly Renaissance. 13 (8).

But the first source goes no further than to say that:

[These stories] do testify to a concept of what one might call a welfare state (p. 308)

The second source, though it describes the early Caliphate under Umar as a welfare state, makes no claim that this was the first such state.