from the Fire.

He transmitted the report through the chain of Ibrāhīm ibn Bishār, from ʿAbbād ibn ʿAmr, from Muḥammad ibn Yazīd al-Baṣrī, from Yūsuf ibn Māhāk, and he cited it; yet it is extremely unusual, and Allah knows best.

(1) Righteous dreams were seen concerning him, and both the elite and the masses—especially the scholars, ascetics, and devout worshippers—grieved over his loss. The poets, too, composed elegies for him. Among them is what Abū ʿAmr al-Shaybānī recited from Kuthayyir ʿUrrah in lament for ʿUmar:

His benefactions embraced all, so his passing struck all; thus everyone who mourns him is rewarded.
The people hold one common funeral for him; in every house there is a wail and a sigh.
Even the tongue of one you never appointed praises you with good, for you are truly worthy of praise.
His good deeds returned his life to him; through their diffusion he seems as though revived.

Jarīr (2) likewise mourned ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz (may Allah have mercy on him):

The heralds of death announce to us the Commander of the Believers—
O best of those who ever made the pilgrimage to Allah’s House and performed the ʿumrah!
You were entrusted with a grave responsibility and bore it well,
pursuing it by Allah’s command, O ʿUmar.
The sun is eclipsed and will not rise; (3)
the stars of night and the moon weep for you.

Muḥārib ibn Dithār (may Allah have mercy on him) also elegized ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, may Allah the Exalted have mercy upon him:

Had death been a mightier being able to confront you,
your justice would have kept it from striking you, O ʿUmar.
How many statutes of justice you revived for them—
some were near death, and others still await your aid.
Alas for my soul—and for all who grieve with me—
over the men of equity whom the graves carry off.
My eyes have seen no equals to the three
whose bones the graves within the mosque now enclose;
and you pursued their path with all your effort—
blessings upon those sunnahs that crave the truth.
Were I able—though destiny prevails,
coming at dusk, manifesting at dawn and ever renewing—
I would have turned aside from ʿUmar the fated end at Dayr Simʿān,
but destiny overcomes. (4)

They said: He died at Dayr Simʿān in the district of Ḥimṣ on a Thursday; others said on a Friday—five days having passed, or two remaining, or ten remaining of Rajab—in the year 101 AH; others said 102 AH.

Al-Haytham ibn ʿAdī stated: He passed away in Jumādā of the year 102 AH, and his cousin Maslama ibn ʿAbd al-Malik led the funeral prayer; and it was said that Yazīd ibn