What a Caliph, Umar ibn al Khattab Radhi Allahanho. Note: following is not full and exact translation of the narration. Once, In a cold night Umar ra saw a woman who was trying to cook something and her little children were weeping, He said Assalamu alikum O people of light. As he disliked to say O people of fire, She replied (not knowing that he is ameer ul momineen): Wa alikum as-salam. Umar asked: What happened to you? And why the children are weeping? She said: Its a cold night and the children are hungry. He asked what are you cooking? she said: I am deceiving the children so that they may sleep. (i.e. she was just showing that food is going to be ready), ALLAH is in between us and UMAR. He said: May Allah bless you, How could Umar know your situation? She said: Umar is our Haakim and still do not know about us? Umar said to his servant: Come with me, and they ran towards the store and took a sack of flour and other food, and said to his servant put this on me. His servant said: I can take it, Umar replied, would you bear my weight on the day of judgment? Umar ran and took the food for that woman. He helped the woman in cooking and feeding the children. The woman said: You should be our leader apart from AMEER UL MONINEEN. Umar said: when you meet Ameer ul momineen than you should say something good and talk to me there. Then he sat down and saw the children eating and playing, then the children slept. Umar said: Hunger made them cry and they could not sleep because of that, I wanted to see this (i.e. playing and sleep of children) and I saw that. [Fadail as-Sahaba of Imam Ahmad 1/290-292, Shaykh Wasi ullah Abbas said chain is Hasan, Sh Zubair Ali Zai said The narration is Hasan Lidhatihi Maqalaat 6/253] Scans from Fadail as-Sahaba https://ia600300.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/32/items/wahawaha/fshaba_jp2.zip&file=fshaba_jp2/fshaba_0289.jp2&scale=4&rotate=0 https://ia600300.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/32/items/wahawaha/fshaba_jp2.zip&file=fshaba_jp2/fshaba_0290.jp2&scale=4&rotate=0 https://ia600300.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/32/items/wahawaha/fshaba_jp2.zip&file=fshaba_jp2/fshaba_0291.jp2&scale=4&rotate=0
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