• He also married Lahiyah, a woman from Yemen, who bore him ʿAbd al-Raḥmān the Younger.
• He married ʿĀtikah bint Zayd ibn ʿAmr ibn Nufayl; after his death she was taken in marriage by al-Zubayr.

Conquests during his caliphate:
Al-Layth ibn Saʿd said: When ʿUmar became caliph, Damascus was the first city to be taken. The Battle of Yarmūk followed in the year 15 AH; al-Jābiya in 16 AH; Jerusalem (Iliyāʾ) and Sargh in 17 AH; the famine of al-Ramāda and the plague of ʿAmwās in 18 AH; the battle of Jalūlāʾ in 19 AH; then the capture of Babilyūn and Caesarea in Syria, and the death of Heraclius in 20 AH, the same year Egypt was opened. In 21 AH Nihāwand was conquered; Alexandria fell in 22 AH, and that same year saw the capture of Istakhr and Hamadhān. After that, ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ campaigned against Tripoli in the Maghrib, and there was an expedition to Amorium. The governor of Egypt was Wahb ibn ʿUmayr al-Jumaḥī, and the commander of the Syrian forces was Abū al-Aʿwar in 23 AH. ʿUmar was killed as the pilgrims were departing for home at the close of that same year.

Khalīfah [ibn Khayyat] said: The battle of Jalūlāʾ took place in 17 AH.

His martyrdom:
Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyab said: When ʿUmar left Minā he halted at al-Abṭaḥ, gathered a small mound of pebbles, lay on his back, raised his hands toward the sky, and said: "