Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 38263 — Reports on weeping out of fear

It is reported from Abu Sa'id, the mawla of Abu Usayd, that when Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) had prayed, he sent the people out of the mosque and set off towards us. When he saw his companions, he put down his whip (durrah) and sat down, and he said: Make supplication. So they all began to make supplication. Then they went on making supplication by turns until my turn came, and I too made supplication, and I was a slave at that time. I saw Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) make supplication and weep so much that not even a woman who has lost her child to death weeps like that. I thought to myself: "Is this the man about whom people say that he is very harsh-tempered?"