It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Dharr (may Allah be pleased with him) that a young man passed by Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him), and Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "What a fine young man he is!" Sayyiduna Abu Dharr (may Allah be pleased with him) followed that young man and said: O young man, ask forgiveness for me. He asked in astonishment: O Abu Dharr, shall I pray for you when you are a Companion of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)? He said: Yes! (Pray for me.) He said: I will not pray until you tell me the reason. Sayyiduna Abu Dharr (may Allah be pleased with him) said: You passed by Umar and he said about you: "What a fine young man he is!" And indeed I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) saying: "Indeed, Allah Almighty has placed the truth upon the tongue and heart of Umar." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Imam Muslim, but they did not record it with this wording (context).

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) came when the prayer had already begun, and three people were sitting there, one of whom was Abu Jahsh al-Laythi. He said: Stand up and pray with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). Two of them stood up, but Abu Jahsh refused. Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: O Abu Jahsh, pray with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). He said (insolently): I will not stand up until someone with stronger arms than mine and a harder grip wrestles me, throws me down and rubs my face in the dust. Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I went towards him; I was stronger than him and had a harder grip, so I threw him down and rubbed his face in the dust. Meanwhile Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) came and separated us. Then Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) went out in a state of anger until he reached the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). When he (peace and blessings be upon him) saw him and noticed signs of anger on his face, he asked: "O Abu Hafs, what has troubled you?" He said: O Messenger of Allah, I passed by some people sitting at the door of the mosque when the prayer had already begun, and Abu Jahsh al-Laythi was among them. Then he related the whole incident and said: By Allah, O Messenger of Allah, Uthman's support for him was only because he had once been his guest for a night, so he wanted to repay him for it. When Sayyiduna Uthman heard this, he said: O Messenger of Allah, do you not hear what Umar is saying about us? The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The pleasure of Umar is a mercy. By Allah, I would have wished that you had brought me the head of that wicked man." Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) (hearing this) set off. When he had gone some distance, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) called him and said: "O Umar, come here. Where do you intend to go?" He said: I was going to bring the head of that wicked man. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Sit down so that I may tell you how free of need the Lord Almighty is of the prayer of Abu Jahsh al-Laythi: Indeed, in Allah's first heaven there are angels immersed in humility who will not raise their heads until the Hour is established; when the Hour comes, they will raise their heads and say: Our Lord, we have not worshipped You as You deserve to be worshipped. And in the second heaven there are angels in a state of prostration; they will not raise their heads until the Hour, and when the Hour comes they will raise their heads and say: Our Lord, we have not worshipped You as You deserve. And in the third heaven there are angels in a state of bowing; they will not raise their heads until the Hour, and when the Hour comes they will raise their heads and say: We have not worshipped You as You deserve." Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) asked: O Messenger of Allah, what do they say (in their glorification)? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The people of the first heaven say: 'Subhana dhi al-mulki wa al-malakut' (Glory be to the One who possesses the dominion and sovereignty of the heavens and the earth); the people of the second heaven say: 'Subhana dhi al-izzati wa al-jabarut' (Glory be to the One who possesses might and overpowering majesty); and the people of the third heaven say: 'Subhana al-Hayyi alladhi la yamut' (Glory be to the Ever-Living who will never die). So, O Umar, recite these words in your prayer." He said: O Messenger of Allah, then what about the supplication that you taught me and ordered me to recite in my prayer? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Recite that one once and this one once." And the supplication that he (peace and blessings be upon him) had ordered him to recite was: 'A'udhu bi-afwika min iqabika, wa a'udhu bi-ridaka min sakhatika, wa a'udhu bika minka, jalla wajhuk' (I seek refuge in Your pardon from Your punishment, I seek refuge in Your pleasure from Your displeasure, and I seek refuge in You from You; exalted and majestic is Your Face). This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Imam Bukhari, but they did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both); he said: I never heard Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) say about anything, "I think it is such and such," except that it turned out just as he thought. Once Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) was sitting when a handsome man passed by him. He looked at him and said: "Either my judgement is mistaken, or you are still on your religion of the Jahiliyyah, and you were their soothsayer (kahin) in the Jahiliyyah." The man said: I have never seen a Muslim man received the way I have been today. Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "I adjure you to tell me the truth." He said: Yes, I was their soothsayer in the Jahiliyyah. He asked: "What was the strangest thing that came to you?" Then he mentioned a long hadith whose chain is not present (at this place).

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr bin al-As (may Allah be pleased with them both); he said: We travelled with Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) on his last journey to Syria. When he drew near to Syria, he was informed that plague had spread there. It was said to him: O Amir al-Mu'minin, it is not proper for you to enter into this epidemic, just as, if you were there and the plague broke out, you should not leave it. So he turned back towards Madinah. The narrator said: We were travelling at night when he said to me: "Move off to one side of the road." He moved aside and I moved aside too. Then he dismounted from his mount, placed his head on the foreleg of his camel and slept, but I could not sleep. Then (on waking) he began to say: "What have I to do with those (people) who turned me back from Syria!" Then he mounted, and I did not ask him anything until, when I felt that we were about to reach the settled people, I said to him: Why did you say what you said when you woke from your sleep? He said: "Indeed, I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) saying: 'Seventy thousand people will be raised up from the red soft ground between the wall of Hims and the olive trees, upon whom there will be no reckoning.' And if Allah brings me back safely from this journey, I will certainly take my family, my dependants and my wealth and settle in Hims." The narrator said: Then he returned from that journey and (some time later) was martyred, may Allah's pleasure be upon him. This hadith has an authentic (sahih) chain, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from al-Sha'bi that Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) wrote to Sayyiduna Sa'd bin Abi Waqqas (may Allah be pleased with him) that he should choose for the Muslims an abode of hijrah and a station (city) for jihad. So Sayyiduna Sa'd sent a man of the Ansar called al-Harith bin Salamah, and he chose for them the place where Kufah stands today. So Sayyiduna Sa'd settled there with the people, laid out the plan of its mosque and marked out the boundaries of the city. Al-Sha'bi said: On the land of Kufah there used to grow khuzama, shih, uqhuwan and shaqa'iq al-Nu'man (fragrant flowers and herbs), and in the Jahiliyyah the Arabs used to call it 'Khadd al-Adhra'' (the cheek of the maiden), that is, a very beautiful and fertile land. Having approved this place, they wrote to Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him), and he replied: "Settle there." So the people moved to Kufah.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him); he said: Kufah is the dome (centre) of Islam and a land of trials.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) that one of his slave-women offered to dye his beard (apply khidab), and he said: "What has inclined you to extinguish my light, just as so-and-so has extinguished his light?"

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with them both) that one day Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) said to Sayyiduna Abu Bakr al-Siddiq (may Allah be pleased with him): O best of all people after the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)! Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) replied: Take note! If you have said that, then (listen): I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) saying: "The sun has not risen upon any man better than Umar." This hadith has an authentic (sahih) chain, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him); he said: The people with the soundest insight and perception are three: the first is the Aziz of Egypt, when he used his perception about Yusuf (peace be upon him) and said to his wife: "Keep him in honour" [Surah Yusuf: 21] ; the second is the woman who saw Musa (peace be upon him) and said to her father: "O my father, hire him" [Surah al-Qasas: 26] ; and the third is Abu Bakr al-Siddiq (may Allah be pleased with him), when he nominated Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) as his successor (Khalifah). Imam al-Hakim said: May Allah Almighty be pleased with Ibn Mas'ud; how excellently he has brought these (three incidents) together with this authentic chain. (A brief account of the martyrdom of Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him).)

It is narrated from Ma'dan bin Abi Talhah al-Ya'mari; he said: Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) was wounded (in an attack) on a Wednesday, when four days remained of the month of Dhu al-Hijjah.