Lineage of Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) — Reports Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) that he asked the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him): "May one of us sleep while in a state of major ritual impurity (janabah)?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Yes, but let him perform ablution (wudu) like his ablution for prayer."

Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) heard me saying: "By my father!" So he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, forbids you from swearing by your fathers."

Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: O people, be suspicious of (your own) opinion in matters of religion, for I saw myself rejecting the decision of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) by my own opinion and reasoning (ijtihad), and by Allah, I was not falling short in seeking the truth. That was on the day of Abu Jandal, when the treaty was being written between the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and the people of Makkah. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Write: Bismillah al-Rahman al-Rahim (In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful)." They said: "Have we accepted what you say as true? Rather, write: Bismika Allahumma (In Your name, O Allah)." The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) agreed, but I refused, until the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to me: "You see that I agree, and you refuse?" Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: So I agreed.

Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: I asked my father: "Who was the man who rescued you from the polytheists on the day they beat you?" He said: That was al-As bin Wa'il al-Sahmi.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) that Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) went out to pray for rain, and he took al-Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) out with him to supplicate, and he would say: "O Allah, whenever we were struck by drought in the time of our Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), we would supplicate to You through the means (wasilah) of our Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and now we supplicate to You through the means of the uncle of our Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) (al-Abbas, may Allah be pleased with him)."

Abdullah bin Dinar (may Allah have mercy on him) said: A man from the people of Iraq said to Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both): Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both), when he was our governor, said: "Whoever is given a hundred dirhams in exchange for one dirham, let him take it." Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: I heard Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) say: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to say on the pulpit: "Gold for gold is usury (riba), except like for like, with no increase; whatever is increased is usury." Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: If you are in doubt, ask Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) about it. So the man went and asked Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him), and he told him that he too had heard this from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). Then Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) was told what Ibn Umar and Abu Sa'id had said, so Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) sought Allah's forgiveness and said: That was merely an opinion of my own that I had formed.

Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: I was travelling with Sa'd (may Allah be pleased with him). He urinated, then performed ablution and wiped over his leather socks, then led the people in prayer. I objected to him about that. He said: "Will you accept (the opinion of) your father (Umar, may Allah be pleased with him)?" I said: "Yes." So we gathered before the Commander of the Believers, and Sa'd (may Allah be pleased with him) said to him: "I urinated, then performed ablution and wiped over my leather socks, then prayed." Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "You did well and you followed the Sunnah." Sa'd said: "Your son Abdullah objected to me about that." Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "O Sa'd, you were older than him and more knowledgeable."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The price of a singing slave girl is unlawful, her singing is unlawful, looking at her is unlawful, her price is like the price of a dog, and the price of a dog is also unlawful. And whoever's flesh has grown from unlawful wealth, the Fire is more deserving of him."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) that whenever the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) wished to marry off a woman under his care, he would come to her from behind the curtain and say: "O my daughter, so-and-so has proposed to you. If you dislike him, then say: No, for no one should feel shy to say no. And if you like him, then your silence is consent."

Sharik bin Namlah said: One night I was the guest of Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him). He fed me cold pieces of a camel's head, and he also gave us olive oil to eat, and said: "This is the blessed oil that Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, mentioned to His Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)."