2431 – ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Yaʿqūb informed us; he said: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Ḥātim told us; he said: al-Ḥasan ibn ʿArafah narrated to us; he said: al-Walīd ibn al-Faḍl al-ʿAnazī related to me; he said: Ismāʿīl ibn ʿUbayd al-ʿAjalī narrated to us, from Ḥammād ibn Abī Sulaymān, from Ibrāhīm al-Nakhaʿī, from ʿAlqamah, from ʿAmmār ibn Yāsir, who said:

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to me, “O ʿAmmār, Gabriel has just come to me, and I asked him, ‘Tell me about the virtues of ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb in the heavens.’ He replied, ‘O Muḥammad, were I to recount to you Umar’s heavenly virtues, even if Noah had remained among his people for one thousand years save fifty, I would still not have finished enumerating Umar’s virtues. Indeed, ʿUmar is but one good deed among the good deeds of Abū Bakr.’”