Like Father

My previous post provided a glimpse of Khalifah Umar ibn Abdil Azeezs method of training his hildren!
"o# $ #ould like to share the result of this nurturing!
%he &istorians mention that he had fifteen hildren' three of #hih #ere daughters! (ah of them gre# up to be obedient and pious!
%he most aomplished of them #as) Abdul Malik *rahimahullah+
Umar *rahimahullah+ says) ,My son Abdul Malik is most herished to me from all my hildren!

%he -ons effet on the Father
-ome (lders of that era said) ,$t #as the piety that Umar sa# in his son Abdul Malik that lead Umar to a pious life.
&afidh $bn Asakir #rites) ,&e #as the hild of a slave girl! &e #as pious and assisted his father as #ell as enouraged him to be /ust.
$mmediately after beoming Khalifah' Umar *rahimahullah+ #anted to take a mid0day nap and deided he #ill attend to the matters of the
people after the 1uhr salah! &is son' Abdul Malik autioned him #ith the follo#ing)
,2 Ameerul Mumineen3 4hat guarantee do you have that you #ill live till 1uhr5.
Umar asked him to ome loser! &e embraed his son' kissed him and said)
,All praise is for Allah #ho has granted me offspring that assists me in my matters of deen!.
-aying this' he left and alled for those #ho had any need #ith the Ameerul Mumineen to ome for#ard!

Like Father' Like -on' Like -lave
Maimoon $bn Mehran says) ,$ havent seen a household better than the one that onsisted of Umar ibn Abdil Azeez' his son Abdul Malik'
and their slave6 Muzahim.
7abee ibn -abirah told Umar) ,$ havent seen a son like your son.
Abdul Malik' the son of Khalifah Umar ibnAbdil Azeez *rahimahullah+' #as truly a son #ho #as an asset to his father! &e onstantly
assisted his father in his religious affairs6 autioning him and supporting him #henever the need arose!
4hen Umar #ould get angry' he #ould alm him do#n! 4hen he *the Ameerul Mumineen+ needed advie' his son ounselled him too!

%he Fathers #ords for his -on
%he follo#ing is a brief olletion of the praises Khalifah Umar ibn Abdil Azeez had for his son)
,All 8raise is for Allah #ho besto#ed me #ith an assistant from my o#n family6 my son Abdul Malik!.
,May Allah have mery on you my son' and may &e re#ard you beautifully on behalf of your father! $ indeed see you as an aid in good
#orks!.
$f it #asnt that $ fear my deision may have been hampered by the love a father has for his son' $ #ould have said Abdul Mali is fit to be
the Khalifah3
,2 My son3 $ am more proud that you are my son than you are about me being your father!.
%o this Abdul Malik replied)
,2 father3 $ prefer being #hat you #ant me to be' instead of #hat $ #ant.

9emise
Abdul Malik *rahimahullah+ passed a#ay during the life of his father! &e #as only eighteen at the time of his death #hih #as aused by a
plague!
Upon his death Umar *rahimahullah+ addressed him saying)
,May Allah sho#er his mery on you my son3 :ou #ere indeed obedient to you father!.
&e then made the follo#ing dua.

2 Allah3 Forgive Abdul Malik' the son of Umar' and forgive those #ho ask for his forgiveness

%here #as a ;edouin among those #ho onsoled the Khalifah after his sons demise! &is #ords #ere)

,May the Ameerul Mumineen remain in honour' but #hat you see *9eath+
$s indeed the e<at reason for #hih hildren are born and brought up *i!e' to die one day+
:our son is also among the progeny of "abi Adam *Alaihissalam+
All of #hih have to drink from the pond of death.
&afidh $bn 7a/ab *rahimahullah+ #rites) ,%hese proved to be the most onsoling #ords for Umar ibn Abdil Azeez.

*(<trated from) %areekh 9imash= > ,-eeratu Abdil Malik ibn Abdil Azeez.' by &afidh $bn 7a/ab Al0&ambali *rahimahullah+!
May Allah %aala guide us all to the #ays of our pious predeessors! Ameen!