Abd Allah ibn `Isa ibn Abi Layla related:

"There were two dark lines in `Umar’s face marked by tears."

Al-Hasan al-Basri and Hisham ibn al-Hasan narrated that

`Umar sometimes lost consciousness after reciting a verse from the Qur’an, whereupon he would be taken ill and visited for days.

Among `Umar’s sayings:

"O Allah! Grant me to die a martyr, and make my death be in your Prophet’s country."

"Take account of yourselves before your are brought to account."

Anas said:

"I heard `Umar say as he was alone behind a wall: ‘By Allah! You shall certainly fear Allah, O son of al-Khattab, or He will punish you!"

Jabir said that he heard `Umar ibn al-Khattab say on the pulpit when he married Umm Kulthum, the daughter of `Ali and Fatima:

"Do not disparage me [for marrying a young girl], for I heard the Prophet say:
‘On the Judgment Day every means will be cut off and every lineage severed except my lineage.’"

He desired to place himself in the Prophet’s lineage through this marriage due to the precedence of Ahl al-Bayt in the Prophet’s intercession. Umm Kulthum bore him two children, Zayd and Ruqayya.

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