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| | The History of the Khalifahs - Umar ibn al-Khattab |
 | | An-Nawawi says: 'Umar was born thirteen years after the Elephant, he was one of the nobility of Quraysh, and he had the role of ambassador in the Jahiliyyah; Quraysh, whenever war broke out among them or between them and others, would send him as an ambassador, i.e. |
 | | Ibn 'Umar said: I never saw 'Umar become angry, and then Allah was mentioned in his presence or he was made to fear, or a person would recite an ayah from the Qur'an in his presence, but that he stopped short of what he meant to do. |
 | | Abu Raja' al-'Utaridi said: 'Umar was a tall stout man, extremely bald, fair but extremely ruddy, in the two sides of his beard a lightness, his moustache was large, and at its extremities there was a redness at the roots of which there was fl. |
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