Hasan and Husain came to Umar bin Khattab and he was busy withsomething. When he noticed them, he rose up and kissed them and gave athousand dirhams or dinar to each of them.
They returned and informed their father about it. He said: I heard theMessenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.) say:
“In the world, Umar is the effulgence of Islam and in Paradise, he is thelamp of folks of Paradise.”
So the two of them returned to Umar and mentioned it to him. Umar calledfor paper and pen and wrote as follows: Two chiefs of youths of Paradise have
narrated from their father from Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.) that…and made abequest that it should be placed in his shroud. They did this and when it wasmorning the paper was found on the top of the grave and it was written thereon:“Hasan and Husain said the truth and Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.) said thetruth.”
Allamah Amini says: This imaginative story has gone to such an extent infalsification that Ibne Jauzi has mentioned in among the fabricated traditions, asmentioned in Tahzirul Khawas1 of Suyuti, who has written that:
“It is amazing that shamelessness took this person to such an extent that hefabricated this tradition and he was content with it; on the contrary he presentedto jurists and they regarded this writing as genuine and approved it.”
May Almighty Allah destroy exaggeration in excellence that made the earsof jurists dirty as it blackened the face of history and made the face of writingugly and sorrowful.
To these falsehoods add what we mentioned regarding fabricated traditionsand what the hands of execration did in case of Umar.2
“Thus do We relate to you (some) of the news of what has gonebefore; and indeed We have given to you a Reminder fromOurselves. Whoever turns aside from it, he shall surely bear aburden on the day of resurrection.”3