Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 34171 — Reports on the virtue of Umar bin

Shaqiq (may Allah have mercy on him) reports that Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: If the knowledge of the living people of the Arabs were placed in one pan of the scales, and the knowledge of Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) in the other, the knowledge of Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) would outweigh them all.