Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 34178 — Reports on the virtue of Umar bin

Sulayman (may Allah have mercy on him) reports: I heard al-Hasan (may Allah have mercy on him) saying: Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) and Sayyiduna al-Mughirah bin Shu'bah (may Allah be pleased with him) sent a proposal of marriage to a woman. Her family married her to Sayyiduna al-Mughirah (may Allah be pleased with him) and left Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him), or the narrator said: they rejected the proposal of Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him). At this the Prophet of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "They have surely left the best man of this nation," or he said: "rejected."