Al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3900 — Mention of the killing of Umar

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that when the murderous attack was made on Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him), we came to him while he was saying: "Do not be hasty in the matter of this man (the assailant). If I survive, I will decide about him by my own judgement, and if I die, then the matter is in your hands." The people said: O Commander of the Believers, by Allah, he (the assailant) has already been killed and cut to pieces. So he recited: 'Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un' (We belong to Allah and to Him we return), then said: "Woe to you! Who is he (the assailant)?" The people told him that he was Abu Lu'lu'ah, so he said: 'Allahu akbar' (Allah is the Greatest). Then he looked at his son Abdullah and said: "O my dear son, what kind of father have I been to you?" He said: You have been the best of fathers. Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Then I adjure you to lift me and keep hold of me until you lay my cheek on the ground, so that death comes to me in the state in which a humble servant dies." Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: O my father, by Allah, this is very hard on me. He said: "Get up, and do not argue with me." The narrator said: So he got up, lifted him and laid his cheek on the ground. Then Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "O Abdullah, I adjure you by the right of Allah Almighty and the right of Umar: when I die and you have buried me, do not wash your head until you have sold from the properties of the family of Umar for eighty thousand (dirhams) and deposited it in the public treasury of the Muslims." On hearing this, Sayyiduna Abd al-Rahman bin Awf (may Allah be pleased with him), who was at his head, said: O Commander of the Believers, what is the worth of these eighty thousand? You have (by demanding so large a sum) put your household, or the family of Umar, into hardship. Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Leave me alone, O Ibn Awf." Then he looked at his son Abdullah and said: "O my son, thirty-two thousand (dirhams more) are what I spent during my caliphate on performing twelve Hajj pilgrimages and on the needs of the delegations and envoys who used to come to me from the various cities." Then Sayyiduna Abd al-Rahman bin Awf (may Allah be pleased with him) said to him: O Commander of the Believers, be of good cheer and think well of Allah Almighty, for there is none of us Muhajirun who has not taken from the fay' (spoils gained without fighting) just as you have taken, which Allah Almighty has made lawful for us; and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) passed away while he was pleased with you, and you have the merits of precedence in faith in his (peace and blessings be upon him) company. Then Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "O Ibn Awf, Umar's wish is that he come out of it (the responsibilities of the caliphate) just as (unstained as) he entered it. My wish is that when I meet Allah Almighty, you will not be demanding anything of me, little or much."
Thumamah, a narrator of this report, has been criticised by Ali bin al-Madini and other imams; moreover, the accounts of the martyrdom of Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) found in the two Sahihs do not contain most of the details of the story mentioned here.