Shaytan Takes Another Road

Some women of Quraysh were once in the Prophet's ﷺ house, speaking loudly. When 'Umar asked permission to enter, they hurried behind the curtain, and the Prophet ﷺ laughed. "You are in awe of me and not of the Messenger of Allah?" 'Umar asked them; they said he was the harsher of the two. The Prophet ﷺ said: "By the One in whose hand is my soul, Shaytan never meets you on a road except that he takes a road other than yours" (Sahih al-Bukhari 3683).

The Prophet ﷺ told him that he had seen in Paradise a palace with a young woman beside it, and was told it was 'Umar's. He had wanted to go in, but remembered 'Umar's protective jealousy and turned away. 'Umar wept: "Would I be jealous over you, O Messenger of Allah?" (Sahih al-Bukhari 3680).

In a dream the Prophet ﷺ drank milk until he saw its freshness coming out of his nails, then gave what was left to 'Umar, and interpreted it as knowledge (Sahih al-Bukhari 82). In another he saw people wearing shirts of different lengths, and 'Umar's was so long that it trailed behind him; he interpreted it as religion (Sahih al-Bukhari 23). And he named 'Umar among the ten given glad tidings of Paradise (Jami' al-Tirmidhi 3747).