Abu Bakr ibn al-Barqī said: Ibn ʿUmar was of medium build; he used to tint his beard with a yellow dye, and he died in Mecca.

Ibn Yūnus added: Ibn ʿUmar was present at the conquest of Egypt, received an allotment of land there, and more than forty residents of Egypt transmitted hadith from him.

Al-Layth narrated from Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Jazʾ, who said:
“A companion of mine, a traveller, passed away. I was at his grave together with Ibn ʿUmar and ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr; all three of us originally shared the name al-ʿĀṣ. The Prophet ﷺ said to us, ‘Enter his grave, and you are now ʿUbayd Allāh.’ We lowered our brother into the earth, came back up, and our names had been changed.”

This is how ʿUthmān ibn Saʿīd al-Dārimī related the report, telling us that Yaḥyā ibn Bukayr narrated it from him. Although its chain of transmission is formally sound, the content is objectionable, for it would mean that Ibn ʿUmar’s name was not changed until after the seventh year AH—an impossibility.

ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar reported—from Ibn Shihāb—that Hafṣah and Ibn ʿUmar accepted Islam before their father, and that when ʿUmar embraced Islam his son ʿAbd Allāh was about seven years old. This chain is broken.

Abu Isḥāq al-Sabiʿī said: I saw Ibn ʿUmar—dark-complexioned, broad-shouldered, his lower garment reaching halfway down his shins—circumambulating the Kaʿbah.

Hishām ibn ʿUrwah said: I saw Ibn ʿUmar with a jummah (1), a full head of loose hair.

ʿAlī ibn Judʿān narrated from Anas and Ibn al-Musayyib that Ibn ʿUmar was present at Badr. This is an error and a mistake, for it is reliably established that he said:
“I was presented to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ on the Day of Uḥud when I was fourteen years old, and he did not permit me to fight (2).”