Al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3897 — The virtues of Umar bin al-Khattab

It is narrated from Sa'id bin al-Musayyib (may Allah have mercy on him) that when Sayyiduna Umar al-Faruq (may Allah be pleased with him) returned from Mina after Hajj, he made his she-camel kneel at al-Abtah, then made a heap of the soil and pebbles there and lay down on it, so that his clothes became covered with dust. Then he stretched out his hands towards the sky and made this supplication: 'Allahumma da'ufat quwwati, wa kaburat sinni, wa intasharat ra'iyyati, fa-qbidni ilayka ghayra mudayyi'in wa la mufarrit' (O Allah, my bodily strength has become weak, my age has advanced, and the bounds of my subjects under my rule have become very wide; so take me to Yourself in a state in which I have neither neglected Your commands nor fallen short in my responsibilities). After that he (may Allah be pleased with him) came to Madinah and, delivering a sermon, said: "O people, I have made clear for you the ways of the highway of guidance, I have fixed for you the obligations and duties, and I am leaving you upon a bright and clear path (to emphasise this, the narrator of the hadith, Yahya, struck his two hands together), lest you lead the people right and left into the paths of misguidance." And the narrator related the full hadith.
Sa'id bin al-Musayyib (may Allah have mercy on him) said: The month of Dhu al-Hijjah had not yet ended when Sayyiduna Umar al-Faruq (may Allah be pleased with him) was martyred.