As-salaamu'Alaykum,
I thought I would post some snippets about Umar ibn al-Khattab (radiyAllahu anh) and how some of the narrations never cease to amaze. I will post in separate thread's with a thread title that matches the story somehow. I think the story/thread of Umar (radiyAllahu anh) becoming Muslim is posted or people are aware of so I won't post that again. These are taken from (The Biography of Umar ibn al-Khattab by Dr. Muhammad as-Sallaabee). If you have read these then forgive the re-post.
'Umar (radiyAllahu anh) would say,
"Remember the Hell fire frequently. For indeed, its heat is extreme and its bottom is far and deep..."
(Faraaid al-Kalaam lil-Khulafaa al-Kiraam, pg. 155)
One day, a Bedouin went to 'Umar (radiyAllahu anh)to help him; also he reminded 'Umar about the Hereafter, about the possible destinations of man: Hell fire and Paradise. What made the Bedouin's request for help unique was not the actual request but the way he made it: Everything he said, he expressed in the form of poetry. When he finished reciting the last line of his poem - a line in which he said that each one of us will go either to Paradise or the Hell fire - 'Umar began to cry, and he continued to do so until his beard became soaked in tears. 'Umar then said to a servant that was nearby,
"O young boy, give this man my shirt, not because of his poem, but because of (the terror of) that Day. By Allah, I own no shirt other than this one."
(Taareekh Baghdad. 4/312).
'Umar did not wrong or oppress or physically hurt any person; nonetheless, because he feared Allah to such a great degree, no sooner did the Bedouin remind him about the Hereafter that he broke down into tears.
(At-Taareekh al-Islaamee, 19/46)
Much more than an accountant keeps track of an important client's detailed list of expenses, 'Umar kept account of the minutest and most seemingly insignificant of his deeds. If he even imagined that he wronged another person, he sought that person out and ordered him to exact his revenge.
I thought I would post some snippets about Umar ibn al-Khattab (radiyAllahu anh) and how some of the narrations never cease to amaze. I will post in separate thread's with a thread title that matches the story somehow. I think the story/thread of Umar (radiyAllahu anh) becoming Muslim is posted or people are aware of so I won't post that again. These are taken from (The Biography of Umar ibn al-Khattab by Dr. Muhammad as-Sallaabee). If you have read these then forgive the re-post.
'Umar (radiyAllahu anh) would say,
"Remember the Hell fire frequently. For indeed, its heat is extreme and its bottom is far and deep..."
(Faraaid al-Kalaam lil-Khulafaa al-Kiraam, pg. 155)
One day, a Bedouin went to 'Umar (radiyAllahu anh)to help him; also he reminded 'Umar about the Hereafter, about the possible destinations of man: Hell fire and Paradise. What made the Bedouin's request for help unique was not the actual request but the way he made it: Everything he said, he expressed in the form of poetry. When he finished reciting the last line of his poem - a line in which he said that each one of us will go either to Paradise or the Hell fire - 'Umar began to cry, and he continued to do so until his beard became soaked in tears. 'Umar then said to a servant that was nearby,
"O young boy, give this man my shirt, not because of his poem, but because of (the terror of) that Day. By Allah, I own no shirt other than this one."
(Taareekh Baghdad. 4/312).
'Umar did not wrong or oppress or physically hurt any person; nonetheless, because he feared Allah to such a great degree, no sooner did the Bedouin remind him about the Hereafter that he broke down into tears.
(At-Taareekh al-Islaamee, 19/46)
Much more than an accountant keeps track of an important client's detailed list of expenses, 'Umar kept account of the minutest and most seemingly insignificant of his deeds. If he even imagined that he wronged another person, he sought that person out and ordered him to exact his revenge.
