History of Khulafah Rashideen by Jalal ad-Din as-Suyuti - translated by Abdassamad Clarke

T mar ibn al-Khattab ibn Nufayl ibn cAbdu’l-cUzza ibn I I Riyah ibn Qart ibn Razah ibn cAdi ibn Kacb ibn Lu’ayy, V / Amir al-Mu’minin, Abu Hafs, al-Qurashi, al-cAdawi, al- Faruq.

He accepted Islam in the sixth year of prophecy when he was twenty-seven years old, says adh-Dhahabi.

An-Nawawi says: cUmar was born thirteen years after the Elephant, he was one of the nobility of Quraysh, and he had the role of ambassador in the Jahiliyyah; Quraysh, whenever war broke out among them or between them and others, would send him as an ambassador, i.e. a messenger, and when someone called them to judgement — often over a matter of standing or lineage - then they sent him as a response to that.

He accepted Islam very early on, after forty other men and eleven women. Some say that it was after thirty-nine men and twenty-three women, and some say, after forty-five men and eleven women. But it was only after he accepted Islam that Islam was shown openly in Makkah and the Muslims rejoiced in him.

He said: He was one of the outstripping first ones, one of the ten for whom it was witnessed that they were for the Garden, one of the khulafa’ who took the right way, one of the in-laws of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, one of the great men of knowledge of the Companions and one of their abstinent people.

There are related from him five hundred and thirty-nine hadith from the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace.

cUthman ibn cAffan narrated from him, cAli (ibn Abi Talib), Talhah (ibn cUbaydullah), Sacd (ibn Abi Waqqas), cAbd ar-Rahman ibn cAwf, Ibn Mascud, Abu Dharr, cAmr ibn cAbasah and his son cAbdullah, Ibn cAbbas, Ibn az-Zubayr, Anas, Abu Hurayrah, cAmi ibn al-cAs, Abu Musa al-Ashcari, al-Bara’ ibn cAzib, Abu Sacid al- Khudri, and a great number of the Companions and others, may Allah be pleased with them.

I say: I attach here some sections in which there are some collections of interest connected to his biography.