Ghazal poet Omar bin Abi Rabia

It was said that Ibn Abi Rabi''ah was born on the day Ibn al-Khattab died - may God be pleased with him - and people used to say after that: What truth has been removed and what falsehood has been suppressed! They are astonished that this person came into the world on the day that other person went. As for a great right that was removed from this world on the day Omar ibn al-Khattab left it, that ...