Al-Amālī 1, narration 61

Translation

10. He said: Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Jaʿabī informed me, saying: Abū al-Ḥusayn al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Mughīrah informed us, saying: Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Manṣūr al-Ramādī informed us, saying: Sulaymān ibn Ḥarb informed us, saying: Ḥammād ibn Zayd narrated from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd, from ʿĀsim ibn ʿUbayd Allāh, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abān ibn ʿUthmān, from his father, from ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān, who said: I am the last of the people to have seen ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb. I entered upon him while his head was in the lap of his son ʿAbdullāh, and he was despondent. He said to him: "Put my cheek on the ground." But ʿAbdullāh refused. He then said: "Put my cheek on the ground, may your mother be bereaved of you!" So he placed his cheek on the ground. He kept saying: "Woe to my mother! Woe to my mother, if You do not forgive me!" He continued to say this until his soul departed.

Translation: Mulla Asgharali M M Jaffer — published with the edition, reproduced verbatim.