Hazrat Samurah bin Jundub (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that indeed a man said: O Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ! At night I saw in a dream that a bucket descended from the sky. Then Hazrat Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) took hold of both its sides and drank water from it, though there was weakness in him. Then Hazrat Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) took hold of both its sides and drank water until he was satisfied. Then Hazrat Uthman (may Allah have mercy on him) also took hold of both its sides and drank water until he was satisfied.

Hazrat Malik al-Dar (may Allah have mercy on him), who was the treasurer in the food department of Hazrat Umar (may Allah be pleased with him), narrates: During the time of Hazrat Umar (may Allah be pleased with him), people were afflicted with famine. So a man came to the grave of the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: O Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him)! Ask for rain for your Ummah, for they are being destroyed! Then the Prophet (peace be upon him) appeared to that man in a dream and said to him: Go to Umar (may Allah be pleased with him), convey my greetings to him, and inform him that the people will soon be given water. And say to him: You must be prudent. You must be prudent. So that man went to Hazrat Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) and informed him of the dream. Hazrat Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) began to weep and said: O my Lord! I am not negligent except that I am powerless.

Hazrat Shaqiq (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates that Hazrat Abdullah bin Masood (may Allah be pleased with him) said: If the knowledge of all the living people of Arabia were placed on one side of the scale and the knowledge of Hazrat Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) were placed on the other side, the knowledge of Hazrat Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) would outweigh them all.

Hazrat Salim (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates that the people of Najran came to Hazrat Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) and requested: O Commander of the Faithful! It would be a favor if you would write an order in your own hand and intercede with your own tongue. Hazrat Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) had expelled us from our land. Please send us back there. So Hazrat Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said to them: Woe to you! Surely Hazrat Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) was established upon the correct matter. And I will never change that which Hazrat Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) decided. Hazrat A’mash (may Allah have mercy on him) said: Thus, those people used to say, if there had been even a little displeasure in his heart regarding Hazrat Umar (may Allah be pleased with him), he would certainly have taken advantage of this opportunity.

34173 - Al-A'mash said: So they used to say: If there had been anything in himself against Umar, Ali would have taken advantage of this.

Imam Shabi (may Allah have mercy on him) says that when Hazrat Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) came to Kufa, he said: I have come for this reason, that the knot which Hazrat Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) has tied, I may untie it.

Hazrat Urwah bin Zubair (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that Hazrat Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) said: Indeed, even the jinn wept three days before the martyrdom of Hazrat Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) and recited these verses: The earth trembles with its tree named 'Azaa' at the separation of the one martyred in Madinah Munawwarah. May Allah Almighty grant the Commander of the Faithful, Hazrat Umar (may Allah be pleased with him), the best of rewards and bless his body. If anyone tries to recount your achievements while riding a mount, he cannot do so. Your judgments are as excellent as the fruit of clusters. I fear that his death will be at the hands of the deceitful, blue-eyed beast (Abu Lulu).

Hazrat Zaid bin Wahb (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates that two men came to Hazrat Abdullah bin Masood (may Allah be pleased with him). Then one of them said: How do you recite this verse? So Hazrat Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) asked him: Who taught you this verse? He said: Hazrat Abu Hakeem Al-Muzani did. And he (may Allah be pleased with him) asked the other: Who taught you this verse? He said: Hazrat Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) taught me. He (may Allah be pleased with him) said: You recite as Hazrat Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) taught you. Then he began to weep until his tears fell upon the pebbles. Then he said: Indeed, Hazrat Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) was a strong and firm fortress of Islam, in which Islam entered and did not leave from it. So when Hazrat Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) passed away, a breach appeared in that fortress, so Islam left from it and did not enter it again.

Hazrat Asim (may Allah have mercy on him) says that Hazrat Abu Uthman (may Allah have mercy on him) used to have a stick in his hand. With its help, he would walk and would often say: If Allah wills that my stick speaks, then it will surely speak. He (may Allah have mercy on him) says: If Hazrat Umar bin Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) were a scale, then not even the weight of a hair would there be any injustice.

Sulaiman (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates that I heard Hasan (may Allah have mercy on him) say that Umar ibn al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) and Mughira ibn Shu’bah (may Allah be pleased with him) both sent a marriage proposal to a woman. Her family married her to Mughira (may Allah be pleased with him) and left Umar (may Allah be pleased with him), or the narrator said: they rejected Umar’s (may Allah be pleased with him) proposal. Upon this, the Prophet of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: Indeed, they have left the best person of this Ummah, or he said: they have rejected him.