• The Life of ʿUmar al-Fārūq (may Allah be pleased with him):

ʿUmar ibn al-Khattab ibn Nufayl ibn ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā ibn Riyāḥ ibn Qurṭ ibn Razāḥ ibn ʿAdiyy ibn Kaʿb ibn Luʾayy—the Commander of the Believers, Abu Ḥafṣ al-Qurashī al-ʿAdawī, known as al-Fārūq (may Allah be pleased with him).

He was martyred toward the end of Dhu al-Ḥijjah in the year 23 AH. His mother was Ḥantamah bint Hishām al-Makhzūmiyyah, the sister of Abu Jahl. He accepted Islam in the sixth year of the Prophet’s mission, at the age of twenty-seven.

Those who narrated from him include: ʿAlī, Ibn Masʿūd, Ibn ʿAbbās, Abu Hurayrah, a number of other Companions, ʿAlqamah ibn Waqqāṣ, Qays ibn Abi Ḥāzim, Ṭāriq ibn Shihāb, his freedman Aslam, Zur ibn Ḥubaysh, and many others besides them.

ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿUmar reported: “My father was fair-skinned with a reddish tinge, tall, balding, and grey-haired.”

Others said: “He was exceedingly fair-skinned, tall, bald, of brownish complexion, left-handed yet dexterous with his right.”

Abu Rajāʾ al-ʿAṭāridī said: “He was tall and well-built, markedly bald, deeply ruddy, with lightness in his side-whiskers and a large moustache whose ends…"