Ibnu Sa'd dan al-Hakim meriwayatkan bahawa Zirr berkata: Aku keluar bersama penduduk Madinah pada hari 'Eid dan aku melihat 'Umar berjalan tanpa alas kaki, seorang lelaki tua, botak, berkulit kekuningan, kidal, tinggi, menjulang melebihi orang lain seolah-olah dia berada di atas haiwan tunggangan. Al-Waqidi berkata: Tidak diketahui di kalangan kami bahawa 'Umar berkulit kekuningan, kecuali jika dia melihatnya pada tahun kemarau, kerana warnanya berubah apabila dia makan minyak zaitun.

Ibn Sacd and al-Hakim narrated that Zirr said: I went out with the people of Madinah on the day of cEid and I saw cUmar walking barefoot, an old man, balding, of a tawny colour, left-handed, tall, towering over people as if he were on a riding beast. Al-Waqidi said: It is not known among us that cUmar was tawny, unless he saw him in the year of the drought, because his colour changed when he ate olive oil.

Ibn Sa'd meriwayatkan bahawa Ibn 'Umar menceritakan tentang 'Umar dan berkata: Seorang lelaki yang berkulit cerah, dengan warna kemerahan yang dominan, tinggi, botak di bahagian kepala dan beruban.

Ibn Sacd narrated that Ibn cUmar described cUmar and said: A man of fair complexion, with a ruddy tint prevailing, tall, balding and grey-haired.

Beliau meriwayatkan bahawa 'Ubaydah bin 'Umair berkata: 'Umar biasa melebihi orang lain dari segi ketinggian.

He narrated that cUbaydah ibn cUmayr said: cUmar used to overtop people in height.

Beliau meriwayatkan bahawa Salamah bin al-Akwa' berkata: 'Umar kidal dan boleh menggunakan kedua-dua tangan, maksudnya beliau menggunakan kedua-dua tangannya bersama-sama.

He narrated that Salamah ibn al-Akwac said: cUmar was left and right-handed, meaning that he used both hands together.

Ibn cAsakir meriwayatkan bahawa Abu Raja' al-cUtaridi berkata: cUmar ialah seorang lelaki yang tinggi dan tegap, sangat botak, berkulit cerah tetapi sangat kemerah-merahan, pada kedua-dua belah janggutnya terdapat sedikit keputihan, misainya besar dan di hujung-hujungnya terdapat warna kemerahan, sedangkan di pangkalnya terdapat warna hitam.

Ibn cAsakir narrated that Abu Raja’ al-cUtaridi said: cUmar was a tall stout man, extremely bald, fair but extremely ruddy, in the two sides of his beard a lightness, his moustache was large and at its extremities there was a redness at the roots of which there was black.

Dalam Tarikh Ibn 'Asakir, melalui pelbagai jalur riwayat, disebutkan bahawa ibu 'Umar bin al-Khattab ialah Hantamah binti Hisham bin al-Mughirah, dan beliau adalah saudara perempuan Abu Jahl bin Hisham, maka Abu Jahl ialah bapa saudara sebelah ibunya.

In the Tarikh of Ibn cAsakir by various routes there is that the mother of cUmar ibn al-Khattab was Hantamah the daughter of Hisham ibn al-Mughirah and she was the sister of Abu Jahl ibn Hisham, so that Abu Jahl was his maternal uncle.