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time when there was no one similar to him." It is an exaggeration which may be forgiveable because Ibn
`Umar deserved it. But as for `Umar, no one can be compared to him. It is absolutely out of the question
that a similar one is to be found in any period of time.
In the year A.H. 73, the sun sank and the ship of eternity hoisted its sail towards the next life
carrying the body of the last representative of the first days of the Revelation in Makkah and Al
Madiinah: `Abd Allan Ibn `Umar Ibn Al-Khattab.