Re: unparalleled … unparalleled … unparalleled …
The man who vanished the 2500 yeras super power of Persia from the face of earth…the man who shattered the Roman Eastern Empire …the second supreme power in few years…the man who was all in all of 25 lakhs Sq. miles…and the man from which kings trembled and shivvered …with fear and terror…
and see …this man…how he spent his life…
*** Anas said: I saw between 'Umar’s shoulder-blades, four patches in his shirt.**
*** Abu 'Uthman an-Nahdi said: I saw 'Umar wearing a waist-wrapper patched with leather. **
*Abdullah ibn 'Amir ibn Rabi’ah said: I performed the Hajj with 'Umar and he did not pitch a tent of goat’s hair nor of wool. He used to throw the upper part of his ihram and his leather mat over a bush and seek shelter underneath it.
*Abdullah ibn 'Isa said: There were two dark furrows in 'Umar’s face from his weeping.
***Al-Hasan said: 'Umar used to pass by an ayah in his wird (daily portion set aside to recite) and he would fall down (in a faint) until he revived after some days. **
*** Anas said: I entered a walled garden and heard 'Umar saying, while there was a wall between us, ''Umar ibn al-Khattab, Amir al-Muminin. Well done! Well done! By Allah, you will fear Allah, Ibn al-Khattab or Allah will punish you.**
***** Abdullah ibn 'Amir ibn Rabi’ah said: I saw 'Umar take up a straw from the ground and say, 'I wish I was this straw. I wish I was nothing. I wish that my mother had not given birth to me.
*Abdullah ibn 'Umar ibn Hafs said: 'Umar carried a skin full of water upon his neck. Someone spoke to him about that and he said, 'My self was filling me with conceit and I wished to humble it.
*Muhammad ibn Sirin said: An in-law of 'Umar’s came to see him and asked him to give him something from the bait al-mal and 'Umar refused him and said, ‘Do you want me to meet Allah as a treacherous King?’ Then he gave him from his own property ten thousand dirhams.
*** Anas said: 'Umar’s stomach rumbled from eating olive oil the year of the droughthe had forbidden himself clarified butterand he tapped on his stomach with his finger and said, 'There is nothing else for us, until the people have the means of living.**
*Sufyan ibn 'Uyaynah said: 'Umar ibn al-Khattab said, 'The person I like most is the one who points out to me my defects.
*Ibn 'Umar said: I never saw 'Umar become angry, and then Allah was mentioned in his presence or he was made to fear, or a person would recite an ayah from the Qur’an in his presence, but that he stopped short of what he meant to do
*** Bilal said to Aslam, 'How do you find ‘Umar?’ He said, ‘The best of people, except that when he becomes angry it is a mighty matter.’ Bilal said, 'If I was with him when he became angry, I would recite Qur’an to him until his anger went**
*** Al-Ahwas ibn Hakim said, narrating from his father: 'Umar was brought meat dressed with clarified butter and he refused to eat the two of them. He said, ‘Both of them are seasonings.’ All of the aforegoing are from Ibn Sa’d.**
*** Al-Hasan said: 'Umar said, 'It is an easy thing by which I put right a people, that I exchange them an amir in place of an amir**
*** Zirr said: I went out with the people of Madinah on the day of 'Eid and I saw 'Umar walking barefoot, an old man, balding, of a tawny colour, left-handed, tall, towering over people as if he were on a riding beast. Al-Waqidi said: It is not known among us that 'Umar was tawny, unless he saw him in the year of the drought, because his colour changed when he ate olive oil.**
*** Ubaydah ibn 'Umayr said: 'Umar used to overtop the people in height**