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His full name is Umar ibn Al-Khattab ibn Nufayl ibn Abdul- Uzza. He was known as Abu Hafs and earned the nickname of Al Farooq (the Criterion) because he showed his Islam openly in Makkah and through him Allah distinguished between disbelief and faith.
- Strength
- Sense of Responsibility
- Knowledge
- Recognition of People’s Talents and Weaknesses
Umar was known for his strength of character, and his toughness in establishing truth. When it came to doing the right thing, nothing came between it and Umar. When he embraced Islam, he didn’t keep it hidden as did other companions, because of fear of persecution. He went out and openly declared his Islamto the chieftains of Makkah. Before his Hij...
One day Ali saw Umar rushing by. He asked him where he was going. Umar said: ‘I am catching one of the camels of charity that had run away.’ He also said: ‘If a goat were lost in the rims of the Euphrates [river], Umar would be accountable for it in the day of Judgment.’ (Ibn al Jawzi) So keen was his sense of responsibility that he would change hi...
The Prophet said: They (i.e. the companions of the Prophet) asked: ‘What do you interpret it?’ He said:
Umar had flair of reading people. This quality showed up in his appointments and reappointments of various commanders and governors across the Islamic domain. He kept the most experienced and qualified companions with him in Madinah as his advisors. But that didn’t prevent him from consulting with Muslim juveniles, who, he said, had sharper minds b...
Umar ibn al-Khattab[a] (Arabic: عُمَر بْن ٱلْخَطَّاب, romanized: ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb; c. 582/583 – 644), also spelled Omar, was the second Rashidun caliph, ruling from August 634, when he succeeded Abu Bakr (r. 632–634) as the second caliph, until his assassination in 644.
Umar's first act as khalifa was to dismiss him from all his commands, and to appoint Abu Obaida bin al-Jarrah as the supreme commander of the Muslim forces in Syria. Shibli says that Umar had, for a long time, nursed a secret hatred of Khalid because of the latter's excesses.
Narrated Ibn `Abbas: For the whole year I had the desire to ask `Umar bin Al-Khattab regarding the explanation of a Verse (in Surat Al-Tahrim) but I could not ask him because I respected him very much. When he went to perform the Hajj, I too went along with him.
So Umar ibn Khattab (RA) was taken to the house of Al- Arkham ibn abdul Arkham where Muhammed (SAW) used to gather. Thirty-nine men had accepted Islam. He was the fortieth, according to most of the narrations to accept Islam.
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The first narration. Umm Kulthum was the daughter of Ali ibn Abi Talib ibn Abdul Muttalib ibn Hashim ibn Abd Manaf ibn Qusai. Her mother was Fatima, the daughter of the Messenger of Allah (S) 1 and Khadijah bint Khuwailid ibn Asad ibn Abdul Uzza ibn Qusai. She was a young girl when Umar married her.
