Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 37199 — The words of Umar bin al-Khattab

It is narrated from Abdullah bin Amir that he said: I saw Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) pick up a straw from the ground and say: "Alas! Would that I were this straw! Would that I were nothing! Would that my mother had not given birth to me! Would that I had been utterly forgotten!"