Once, Abdullah bin Sa'di (may Allah have mercy on him) came to see Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) during the caliphate of Farooq. When Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) saw him, he said: "Are you the one about whom I have been told that you have been entrusted with some responsibility over the public, but when you are given its salary, you express dislike in taking it?" Abdullah says, I replied: "Yes, that is so." Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) asked: "What is your intention in this?" I replied: "By the grace of Allah, I have horses and slaves and everything, and I am also financially well-off, so I wish that my salary be used for the works of the Muslims." Sayyiduna Umar Farooq (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Do not do so, because once I also wished the same. When the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) wanted to give me something, I would say: 'O Messenger of Allah! There are people more in need than me, please give it to them.' Similarly, once the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) gave me some wealth, and as before, I said: 'Please give it to someone more needy than me.' The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'Take it, add it to your wealth, then give charity from it. And remember! If wealth comes to you without your desire and request, then take it, otherwise do not pursue it.'"

Rabee'ah bin Darraj says that once, during a journey on the way to Makkah, Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) performed two units of prayer as voluntary (nafl) after Asr. Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) saw him and became very angry, and said, "Do you even know that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade this?"

Majidah narrates that once in Makkah Mukarramah, I scraped meat off a boy’s bone; he bit my ear with his teeth and tore it off. When Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) came to us with the intention of Hajj, this matter was presented before him. He said: Take both of them to Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him); if the injury inflicted reaches the level of retribution (qisas), then qisas should be taken from him. When we were taken to Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) and he heard our situation, he said: Yes! This reaches the level of qisas, and he said: Bring a barber to me. When the mention of the barber came, he (Sayyiduna Umar) said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: I have given my maternal aunt a slave, and I hope that Allah Almighty will make him a source of blessing for her, and I have forbidden her from making him a barber, a butcher, or a dyer.

The previous narration is also transmitted through this second chain which has been mentioned in the wording.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) that once Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) delivered a sermon before the people and said: "Allah Almighty has granted His Prophet whatever concession He wished to grant, and he has departed from this mortal world. Therefore, you should perform Hajj and Umrah completely, as Allah Almighty has commanded you to do, and guard the private parts of these women."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was asked: If a person becomes impure by choice, can he sleep in that state? The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Yes! He should perform ablution and then sleep."

Rabee'ah bin Darraj says that once, during a journey on the way to Makkah, Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) performed two units of prayer as voluntary (nafl) after Asr. Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) saw him and became very angry, and said, "Do you even know that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade this?"

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) that once, before I accepted Islam, I set out with the intention of teasing the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), but I found out that he had already gone to the mosque before me. I went and stood behind him. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) began reciting Surah Al-Haqqah. I was amazed at the order and style of the Qur'an. I thought to myself, "By Allah! This man is a poet, just as the Quraysh say." Meanwhile, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) reached the verse: "It is indeed the word of a noble messenger; it is not the word of a poet. Little is it that you believe." Hearing this, I thought to myself, "He is a soothsayer." At that moment, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) recited this verse: "Nor is it the word of a soothsayer. Little is it that you take heed. It is a revelation from the Lord of the worlds. If he had made up any sayings in Our name, We would have seized him by the right hand and then severed his aorta, and none of you could have protected him from Us." Hearing these verses, Islam began to firmly take root in my heart.

Shurayh bin Ubaid and Rashid bin Saeed and others say that during the journey to Syria, when Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) reached a place called "Sargh," he received news that a severe plague had spread in Syria. Upon hearing this, he said: "I have received news that a plague has spread in Syria. My opinion is that if my last moment comes and Abu Ubaidah bin Al-Jarrah (may Allah be pleased with him) is alive, I will appoint him as my successor. And if Allah questions me about this, asking why I appointed him as the caliph over the Muslim Ummah, I will say that I heard Your Prophet say: 'Every prophet has a trustworthy one, and my trustworthy one is Abu Ubaidah bin Al-Jarrah.'" The people did not like this and began to say: "In that case, what will become of the great men of Quraysh, i.e., Banu Fihr?" Then Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "If Abu Ubaidah passes away before my death, I will appoint Mu'adh bin Jabal (may Allah be pleased with him) as my successor. And if Allah asks me why I appointed him as caliph, I will say that I heard Your Prophet say that he will be raised on the Day of Resurrection as a leader among the scholars."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) that a boy was born to the brother of Umm al-Mu’minin Sayyida Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her). They named the child Walid. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "You have named this child after the names of your Pharaohs (because Walid bin Mughirah was a leader of the polytheists of Makkah and was very active in persecuting the Muslims). There will be a man in my Ummah whose name will be Walid, who will be even worse for this Ummah than Pharaoh was."