I say: Had a portent of this magnitude truly occurred, the people who were present would have transmitted it, and it would not have been left to a lone, unknown reporter. Yet my heart is fully at ease in bearing witness that ʿUmar is among the people of Paradise.

Ibn al-Mubārak said: Ibn Lahīʿah informed me that they found in some writings the words, “The fear of Allah will be the death of him”—meaning ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz.

Muḥammad ibn Muslim al-Ṭāʾifī related—on the authority of Ibrāhīm ibn Maysarah—that ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz purchased his own burial plot for ten dinars before his death.

Kuthayyir ʿAzzah lamented him in verse:

His kindly deeds embraced all men; so, when he passed away,
His death, like those good works, spread far and wide, and all are paid their due.
The people mourn him with one heart; in every home a moan, a sigh—
One funeral throng in every house, one grief that pulls them through.
Even the tongue of one you never helped extols your noble name,
For praise, when fixed on you, is only giving what is due.
Your acts of grace restored your life, for as their fragrance travels on,
It seems you live again, revived in every deed you grew.

Khalīfah ibn Khayyāṭ and others reported that ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz died on Friday, five days before the end of Rajab in the year 101 AH, at Dayr Samʿān (1) in the region of Hims.

He noted that the site actually lies within the territory of al-Maʿarra, but al-Maʿarra and Ḥamāh were then administratively attached to Hims.

He lived for thirty-nine and a half years.

Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq, on the authority of Sufyān ibn ʿĀṣim, said that he died five days into Rajab, on a Thursday, was buried at Dayr Samʿān, and that the funeral prayer was led by Maslamah ibn ʿAbd al-Malik.

He further described ʿUmar as brown-complexioned, with a fine, slender face, a lean build, a handsome beard, and a scar on his forehead.