Among the merits of ʿUmar—may Allah be pleased with him—the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:

“I entered Paradise and there I saw a young woman performing ablution beside a palace. I asked, ‘Whose palace is this?’ She replied, ‘It belongs to ʿUmar ibn al-Khattab.’ I wished to enter it, but then I remembered your ghayrah (protective jealousy).” ʿUmar wept and said, “Would I ever be jealous of you, O Messenger of Allah?” The ḥadith is recorded in the Two Ṣaḥīḥs on the authority of Jabir. (1)

He ﷺ also said to Bilal:

“I was admitted into Paradise and heard the shuffle of your sandals ahead of me. Tell me the deed you place the greatest hope in since you embraced Islam.” Bilal replied, “Whenever I perform ablution I always follow it with two rakʿahs …” —the ḥadith. (2)

He further related concerning al-Rumaysāʾ (3) that he saw her in Paradise. Both al-Bukhari and Muslim transmit this from Jabir. (4)

On the day of the eclipse prayer he informed the people that Paradise and Hell were displayed before him. In another wording: “Paradise and Hell drew near to me,” and he was about to pick a cluster of grapes from Paradise, saying, “Had I taken it, you would have eaten from it for as long as the world endured.” (5)

In the Two Ṣaḥīḥs, through the chain of al-Zuhri, from Saʿid, from Abu Hurayrah, it is related that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “I saw ʿAmr ibn Luhayy dragging his entrails through the Fire.” (6)

In another narration he said: “And I saw there the man who owned the crooked staff.” (7)

He also said: “A woman entered the Fire because of a cat she kept confined until it died; she neither fed it nor let it eat the insects of the earth.” (8) “Indeed, I saw it clawing at her.” (9)

He informed us about the man who removed a thorny branch from the road of the people, saying: “I have seen him taking shade beneath it in Paradise.” This is in Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim on the authority of Abu Hurayrah with a different wording. (10)

And in the Two Ṣaḥīḥs, from ʿImran ibn Ḥuṣayn, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:

“I looked into Paradise and saw that the majority of its inhabitants are the poor, and I looked into the Fire and found that most of its inhabitants are women.” (11)