Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 37053 — Reports from our Prophet

Mus'ab bin Sa'd reports about Sayyidah Hafsah bint Umar that she said to her father: "O Commander of the Faithful! There would be no harm for you if you wore clothes softer than these clothes of yours and ate food better than this food of yours, for Allah Almighty has opened the conquests of the earth to you and has made provision abundant for you." Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "In this dispute with you, I make you yourself the judge. Do you not know how much hardship of life the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) had to face?" Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) began to remind Sayyidah Hafsah (may Allah be pleased with her) of what the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) had gone through, until he made Sayyidah Hafsah weep. Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "I have told you that my two companions have gone along one path, so if I walk on a path other than theirs, I will be taken along a path other than theirs. So I, by Allah, will certainly share with them in the like of their hard life, so that perhaps I may also be with them in their life of ease." By his two companions, Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) meant the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him).